Test Infrastructure Engineer
Loft Orbital Solutions2 days ago
Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesSenior
Responsibilities
- Define, build, configure, and maintain test benches and test stations for software and hardware verification and validation.
- Integrate embedded hardware, software products, networking, and cloud components into functional test environments.
- Deploy and support test stations, equipment, and software during satellite integration and test campaigns.
- Troubleshoot Linux services, network configurations, containers, hardware interfaces, and HIL setups.
- Develop Python and Bash scripts to automate configuration, deployment, maintenance, and support.
- Use Git, GitLab, and continuous integration tools to manage test infrastructure configurations and changes.
- Improve test-environment reliability and usability through tool simplification, standardized interfaces, and automation.
- Coordinate with manufacturing, product lifecycle management, and procurement teams on test bench builds and equipment needs.
- Own infrastructure updates and improvements as program requirements evolve.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience working with Linux systems and networking.
- Hands-on experience with embedded hardware, including engineering or flight models.
- Experience in system validation and platform integration.
- Strong Linux troubleshooting skills, including systemd, networkd, and file systems, plus experience debugging HIL setups.
- Understanding of VLANs, OSI layers, TCP/IP, UDP, and packet tracing with tcpdump and Wireshark.
- Proficiency in Python and scripting languages such as Bash.
- Experience with Git, GitLab, and standard software development practices.
- Ability to create, configure, and manage Docker containers and cloud-based pods or equivalent environments.
- Experience with continuous integration tools, CI/CD workflows, and cloud-based automation.
- Some experience with manufacturing execution systems, product lifecycle management tools, and procurement systems.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate across hardware, software, and integration teams.
- Preferred experience designing and deploying automated HIL test benches; working with satellite or other space systems; embedded and space communication protocols; mechanical and electrical engineering teams; harness design and assembly; and languages or formats such as C, C++, C#, Lua, YAML, and CUE.
About Loft Orbital Solutions
Loft Orbital Solutions builds standardized satellite platforms and delivers end-to-end missions as a service for governments, companies, and research institutions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held firm integrates, launches, and operates spacecraft to deploy Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on‑orbit compute, and national security payloads in months. Loft has flown more than 30 missions, using hardware and software abstraction layers atop commodity satellite buses.