Description
Space Tango is an innovative space technology company developing automated facilities and payloads for research and small-scale manufacturing in low Earth orbit and beyond. Our mission is to manufacture health and technology products in space that create value and transformational solutions.
The Integration & Test Engineer joins the engineering team developing and testing Space Tango’s automated spaceflight payloads and facilities. Working closely with design engineers, this role plans, executes, and documents hardware testing, supports integration, and uses test results to resolve issues and improve designs.
This position combines hands-on assembly, fixture development, instrumentation, and data analysis to help transform new concepts into reliable flight hardware.
Travel may be required to support launches, customer activities, partner integrations, and mission operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and execute mechanical, functional, environmental, and integration testing, including structural, vibration, shock, thermal, thermal vacuum, pressure, leak, deployment, and fluid testing.
- Assemble, configure, and operate test articles, prototypes, engineering development units, and supporting equipment.
- Set up and operate test equipment, instrumentation, sensors, and data acquisition systems.
- Design, fabricate, and improve test fixtures and tooling; modify and reconfigure prototype hardware as designs evolve.
- Collect and analyze test data, document results, and communicate findings and recommendations to design engineers.
- Troubleshoot mechanical and system-level issues, investigate failures, and validate design changes.
- Develop and improve test plans, procedures, work instructions, and verification documentation.
- Support payload integration, environmental testing, and launch preparation.
- Maintain organized test records and help improve engineering development and test processes.
Requirements
Qualifications, Skills, and Experience
Required:
- Associate’s or bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent hands-on technical experience.
- Experience assembling, troubleshooting, testing, or supporting mechanical or electromechanical systems.
- Ability to read engineering drawings, CAD models, and technical documentation.
- Experience using common mechanical tools and measurement equipment.
- Strong mechanical aptitude, attention to detail, and a practical approach to problem solving.
- Ability to document results and communicate technical findings clearly.
- Ability to troubleshoot independently, collaborate with engineers and technicians, and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced development environment.
Preferred:
- Experience designing or fabricating test fixtures and tooling.
- Experience with prototype development, product iteration, validation, or environmental testing.
- Experience using CAD software, preferably SolidWorks.
- Experience with instrumentation, sensors, or data acquisition systems.
- Experience with aerospace, robotics, automation, or laboratory equipment.
- Familiarity with NASA, aerospace, or other highly regulated engineering environments.
Space Tango is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are based on merit, competence, and qualifications, without regard to any legally protected status.
This position may require access to technology and information subject to U.S. export control laws, including ITAR and the EAR. Employment is contingent upon the ability to obtain any necessary government authorizations to access and handle controlled technology and data. Candidates must comply with all applicable export control regulations.
Skills Required
- Associate's or bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent hands-on technical experience.
- Experience assembling, troubleshooting, testing, or supporting mechanical or electromechanical systems.
- Ability to read engineering drawings, CAD models, and technical documentation.
- Experience using common mechanical tools and measurement equipment.
- Strong mechanical aptitude, attention to detail, and practical problem-solving skills.
- Ability to document results and communicate technical findings clearly.
- Ability to troubleshoot independently, collaborate with engineers and technicians, and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced development environment.
- Experience designing or fabricating test fixtures and tooling.
- Experience with prototype development, product iteration, validation, or environmental testing.
- Experience using CAD software, preferably SolidWorks.
- Experience with instrumentation, sensors, or data acquisition systems.
- Experience with aerospace, robotics, automation, or laboratory equipment.
- Familiarity with NASA, aerospace, or other highly regulated engineering environments.
What We Do
Space Tango is an industry leader in automated systems in the pursuit of health and technology manufacturing in space. Since 2017 through a NASA Space Act Agreement, Space Tango provides facilities to support iterative R&D and manufacturing in space. Through an integrated and intuitive approach, Space Tango works alongside its diverse partner base to embrace pathways to on-orbit production yielding valuable and transformational solutions for humanity. Space Tango believes the microgravity environment is a new frontier for discovery and innovation. We are focused on creating a new global market 250 miles up in low Earth orbit and envision a future where the next important breakthroughs in both healthcare and technology will occur off the planet. Recognized for our expertise in microgravity design and operations, Space Tango believes that by exploring with industry and educational partners of all kinds, we can improve life on Earth and inspire the next generation to continue to expand the horizon of this new frontier.
