Senior Advanced TIDES Engineer

Job Title:

Senior Advanced TIDES Engineer

Location:

Scottsdale, AZ

Security Clearance:
Department of Defense TS/SCI security clearance preferred

Responsibilities

• Support the development, deployment, and proposal shaping of integrated spacecraft test environments across hardware, firmware, and software infrastructure.
• Lead technical coordination across STE, PIE, and SSI scope.
• Support architecture, design, integration, and verification of development, unit verification, production, module, power converter, NAS, and calibration test environments.
• Translate payload and program requirements into test capabilities, measurement approaches, interface needs, verification methods, and evidence-generation plans.
• Support design package development, including top-level assemblies, interface control documents, cable packages, rack architecture, RF drawer concepts, FPGA/IO drawer concepts, calibration planning, BOM coordination, and test readiness artifacts.
• Coordinate FPGA and digital I/O needs across test racks, payload interfaces, data capture paths, timing/reference distribution, and platform evolution plans.
• Support DOTI (internal software tool) and related test infrastructure deployment, including station configuration, network topology, equipment monitoring, automated test execution, data handling, and reusable software core integration.
• Identify gaps between payload requirements, available test capability, ATP coverage, calibration approach, and formal verification evidence.
• Drive reuse across programs by identifying common capabilities that should be promoted into TIDES core infrastructure.
• Support proposal development, BOE inputs, labor estimates, technical approaches, assumptions, risks, opportunities, and execution plans.
• Lead or support technical solutioning discussions with program teams, capture teams, engineering leadership, and subject-matter experts.
• Drive trade studies across hardware, FPGA, software infrastructure, automation, calibration, verification, schedule, cost, and risk.
• Translate ambiguous program needs into candidate architectures, phased implementation plans, staffing needs, risks, and decision points.
• Support technical reviews, proposal responses, customer-facing discussions, and internal leadership briefings.
• Mentor engineers across disciplines and establish consistent engineering practices across TIDES products.
• Communicate technical issues, risks, impacts, and corrective actions to program teams, leadership, and internal customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering, or Mathematics field, with at least 8 years of relevant experience; or a Master’s degree with at least 6 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with spacecraft payload development, integration, verification, production test, or sustainment.
• Strong understanding of system test environments, automated test systems, RF test equipment, FPGA-based interfaces, rack-level integration, test data infrastructure, and networked lab environments.
• Ability to translate payload requirements into test capabilities, measurement, interface, calibration, and verification strategies.
• Experience with requirements analysis, traceability, interface definition, system integration, verification planning, and test readiness reviews.
• Supporting proposals, BOEs, technical volumes, labor estimates, and risk assessments.
• Ability to lead technical discussions, resolve ambiguity, and drive team towards practical solutions.
• Familiarity with lab networks, including IP planning, LANs, data paths, server/workstation setups, software deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Proficiency with LabVIEW, Test Stand, Python, Git, CI/CD concepts, Kubernetes…