Senior Instrumentation Engineer

Voyager is an innovative space, defense, and national security technology company committed to advancing and delivering transformative, mission-critical solutions. We tackle the most complex challenges to unlock new frontiers for human progress, fortify national security, and protect critical assets to lead in the race for technological and operational superiority from ground to space.

The future belongs to those who build it. At Voyager Technologies, we’re building technologies that protect lives, expand frontiers and prepare us for what’s next. And we’re doing that with people who are wired to solve, build, adapt and lead. These roles are not for the faint of heart.

You’ll help lay the foundation for humanity's future. Join a culture where innovation thrives, curiosity is rewarded, and impact is real. We’re a company of doers, thinkers and builders, united by purpose and grounded in reality.

If you want to put your skills to work where the stakes are real and the mission is bigger than any one person, forge the future with Voyager.

The Senior Instrumentation Engineer will be located onsite in Pueblo, CO and reports to the Operations Engineering Lead. This role is the hands-on technical authority for instrumentation and data acquisition across Voyager Energetics' test programs — responsible for designing, building, calibrating, and validating the sensor systems, signal conditioning, and DAQ infrastructure that capture critical data during R&D and production testing of solid rocket motors and energetic materials.

With 7+ years of practical instrumentation experience, this individual brings deep expertise in measurement system design, a meticulous approach to data integrity, and the judgment to operate safely and effectively in a high-consequence test environment.

In this role, the essential functions are:

• Design, specify, procure, install, calibrate, and validate instrumentation systems for test programs — spanning pressure, temperature (thermocouple, RTD, pyrometer), strain (Wheatstone bridge configurations), vibration and shock (accelerometers, PCB), thrust, mass flow rate, and high-speed transient measurements — ensuring measurement system accuracy, traceability, and data integrity from sensor to recorded output.
• Build, configure, and operate data acquisition systems (NI PXI, CompactDAQ, DEWESoft, or equivalent platforms) for R&D test events and production Lot Acceptance Tests, including channel configuration, triggering logic, sampling rate selection, and real-time data monitoring during test execution.
• Develop and maintain instrumentation calibration programs — performing or coordinating sensor calibrations, maintaining calibration records and traceability to NIST standards, and managing calibration schedules across the instrumentation asset inventory.
• Author instrumentation‑specific test documentation including measurement system plans, sensor selection rationale, wiring diagrams, channel lists, calibration packages, and instrumentation sections of formal test plans and test reports.
• Support test stand design and commissioning efforts — collaborating with Mission Infrastructure Engineering and Automation & Controls Engineering to define instrumentation requirements, route signal cabling, integrate sensors into SCADA/DAQ systems, and validate end‑to‑end measurement chains prior to live test events.
• Perform post‑test data reduction and quality review — verifying data completeness and validity, identifying and documenting anomalous channels, applying engineering unit conversions and corrections, and supporting formal data review and test report generation.
• Troubleshoot instrumentation and DAQ system failures during test preparation and post‑event…