Senior System Validation and Test Automation Engineer - TeraWave RF and Optical Systems
Blue Origin5 days ago
Base Salary
$198k - $277k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design Python-based test automation for RF and optical subsystems across satellite payloads, customer terminals, and ground gateways.
- Build reusable pytest-based automation frameworks with device abstractions, APIs, telemetry collection, reporting, and failure diagnostics.
- Own integration and verification architecture, prototypes, interface validation, acceptance criteria, and requirements-based test plans.
- Develop Agentic-AI automation use cases and failure models and connect them with MCPs.
- Integrate RF transceivers, antenna systems, optical terminals, embedded software, firmware, and network interfaces.
- Develop software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, subsystem, end-to-end, fault-recovery, and regression tests.
- Automate laboratory equipment and measure KPIs including EVM, bit-error rate, throughput, latency, acquisition and tracking performance, optical power, receiver sensitivity, and link margin.
- Troubleshoot failures using telemetry, logs, packet captures, instrument traces, and statistical analysis.
- Create reproducible configurations, lab orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and traceable artifacts for parallel and unattended regression testing.
- Lead integration and test automation efforts, contribute to code reviews and architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and deliver reliable test capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of experience developing Python software for test automation, system integration, or verification of complex hardware and software systems.
- Strong Python proficiency, including object-oriented design, modular architecture, packaging, type annotations, unit testing, and concurrent or asynchronous programming.
- Experience designing automated test frameworks using pytest, Robot Framework, or a similar framework.
- Hands-on experience with Linux-based test environments and Ethernet, TCP/IP, serial, SSH, REST, gRPC, SCPI, and VISA or PyVISA.
- Experience integrating and testing RF, optical, networking, or other high-speed electronic systems with laboratory instrumentation and telemetry.
- Experience with Git, automated regression testing, requirements traceability, and test-data analysis using NumPy, pandas, SciPy, or plotting libraries.
- Experience leading integration or test automation efforts and mentoring junior engineers.
- Experience with Agile or Scaled Agile development methodologies and defect-tracking workflows.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted refugee or asylee.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, 7+ years of relevant experience, satellite or telecommunications testing, software-defined radios, RF transceivers, phased-array or parabolic antennas, optical transceivers such as ACOs or DCOs, automated test-equipment workflows, software-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop environments, fault injection, qualification testing, and space-system reliability knowledge.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, 401(k) matching up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
- Stock options are available to regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
- Up to four weeks of paid time off per year based on scheduled hours and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- The role is onsite in the Greater Seattle Area, with a temporary remote-work exception while the local site is developed.
- Relocation assistance is available and travel may be required up to 10% of the time.
About Blue Origin
Blue Origin designs and manufactures rocket engines, reusable launch vehicles, and lunar transport systems for commercial and government customers. Its products include the suborbital New Shepard, the in-development New Glenn orbital rocket, BE-4 engines (used on ULA’s Vulcan), and the Blue Moon lander; revenue comes from launch services, engine supply, and space systems contracts, including a NASA Human Landing System award. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the company is headquartered in Kent, Washington.