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Electrical Test Engineer, Air Dominance and Strike

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $129,000–$129,000🗓 2026-08-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop, build, and test high-reliability avionics, embedded processing, and power systems for Group 5 air vehicles and missile platforms.

Role type

Electrical Test Engineer

Builds

Flight-critical electronics, PCB assemblies, and FPGA-based processing architectures for autonomous air platforms

Domain

Defense / Aerospace / Avionics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Electrical harness design for rugged aerospace/military applications, familiarity with electrical bus interfaces (CAN, Ethernet, RS422, RS232, MIL-STD-1553), test system creation, root cause analysis, design review participation

Preferred skills

Experience with aircraft avionics module vendors in UAS programs, programming test software (Python, PXI, cDAQ, cRIO), ECAD design (Altium)

Technologies

Python, PXI, cDAQ, cRIO, Altium, MIL-STD-1553, CAN, Ethernet, RS422, RS232

Responsibilities

Create test systems for product development phases, build and test avionics components via lab/ground/flight tests, manage concurrent projects, participate in design reviews, conduct root cause analysis for vehicle integration

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC

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