Top Test Engineer Jobs

Lead vibration test programs: design and build instrumented test setups, run shaker table and modal tests, analyze frequency/time-domain data, correlate with FEA, investigate failures, and produce test plans/reports to qualify aerospace hardware.

Lead propulsion test planning and execution for X-BAT, overseeing engine, hover, static, and integrated propulsion tests. Define test objectives, procedures, hazard analyses, instrumentation, and safety documentation. Provide technical oversight during runs, support root-cause investigations, and collaborate with autonomy, avionics, and instrumentation teams. Support field deployments and test campaigns.

Support avionics and power systems for the X-BAT aircraft: set up and execute benchtop and environmental test campaigns, debug PCBAs and harnesses, design simple PCBAs/fixtures, assist avionics lab buildout, and collaborate with cross-functional teams on high-voltage power systems (generators, batteries, converters).

Plan, execute, and analyze ground and flight test campaigns for manned/unmanned aircraft. Develop test plans, coordinate pre/flight/post activities, collect telemetry, troubleshoot systems, validate requirements, document results, and improve test processes while supporting maintenance and range operations.

Test Engineer II supports manufacturing test equipment within an assembly area. Responsibilities include monitoring equipment performance, analyzing failures, improving test processes, modifying hardware and software, ensuring test coverage, training support staff, and developing calibration and preventive-maintenance procedures. The role requires collaboration with manufacturing teams and participation in problem-solving and operational excellence activities.

Develop, construct, operate, and maintain test facilities for liquid rocket engines. Create test procedures for high-pressure gas and cryogenic systems, analyze test data, procure components, manage vendors, perform maintenance and facility upgrades, and support schedule, quality, safety, and cost objectives. The role requires hands-on engineering, project leadership, emergency decision-making, and collaboration during high-consequence test operations.

Designs, tests, evaluates, certifies, and deploys large-scale Department of Defense IP backbone networks. Responsibilities include MPLS service testing, router and firewall validation, security architecture assessment, threat analysis, implementation planning, Tier III engineering support, configuration guides, and field recommendations. The role requires extensive expertise with Juniper and Cisco backbone platforms, routing protocols, network security, traffic-generation equipment, and DISN/NIPRNet/SIPRNet environments. This is an onsite position at Fort Meade, Maryland, requiring a Secret clearance.

Conduct flight test engineering for aircraft platforms, including test planning, requirements and configuration review, safety planning, test procedures, control room support, real-time decision-making, and pre/post-test data analysis. The role coordinates with design, maintenance, contractors, and customers; supports readiness reviews and test operations; maintains testing metrics; and requires occasional overtime, weekend, and odd-shift work. The position is fully onsite at Edwards AFB and requires an active Secret clearance plus SAP eligibility.

Test and validate novel hardware systems in a hands-on laboratory environment. Responsibilities include operating test and measurement equipment, diagnosing issues, analyzing and visualizing data with Python or MATLAB, maintaining detailed records, troubleshooting experiments, and independently understanding results before proceeding. The role is on-site in the San Francisco Bay Area and requires U.S. citizenship.

Develops and implements ATE test strategies for highly integrated analog and mixed-signal power management devices. Responsibilities include creating test plans and programs, designing ATE hardware interfaces, characterizing and debugging silicon, analyzing yield fallout, improving test time, supporting failure analysis and qualification, and releasing products to volume production. The role requires semiconductor product test experience, analog circuit knowledge, data analysis, and collaboration across design and manufacturing teams.

Develop interface and driver software for HIL systems, build Python and C++ test automation frameworks, create logging and analysis tools, integrate tests into CI pipelines, maintain code quality, and troubleshoot bench integration defects. The role requires embedded or test-system software experience, hardware interfacing, protocol understanding, cross-platform development, and automated testing expertise.

Leads system test strategy, QA standards, automation, performance testing, CI/CD integration, security testing, test metrics, defect triage, and quality reporting. Oversees complex testing projects, coordinates cross-functional teams, mentors QA engineers, and advises stakeholders. Requires expertise across Java and TypeScript automation stacks, API and end-to-end testing, GitHub Actions, performance troubleshooting, Agile, DevOps, TDD, BDD, and static analysis.

Senior individual-contributor responsible for designing and implementing automated test infrastructure, performing device- and system-level opto-electronic characterization (L-I-V, spectral, beam quality, noise, LIDT), developing validation and environmental test protocols, ensuring regulatory and laser-safety compliance, authoring test documentation, and providing technical leadership and guidance across development and production.

Develops automated functional tests and test systems for photonics products, including test fixtures, equipment integration, software release testing, data analysis, and reporting. Ensures products meet quality, safety, compliance, and regulatory standards. Supports approval applications, maintains compliance records, coordinates engineering actions, and communicates test results and issues across teams.

Leads production test engineering for electro-mechanical and electro-optical systems across defense and space programs. Develops and deploys in-process and final acceptance testing solutions, test equipment, checkout procedures, training, and corrective actions. Derives system-level integration and test requirements, manages technical risks, supports program execution, and mentors less experienced engineers. Requires substantial systems engineering experience and the ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.

Leads risk-based manual testing for complex software products, creating test plans, cases, data, traceability records, and release assessments. Executes functional, integration, regression, exploratory, and acceptance testing; investigates failures, tracks defects, verifies fixes, and identifies regression coverage. Contributes to automation frameworks and CI pipelines, improves QA processes, applies AI tools to testing workflows, coordinates cross-team testing, and mentors QA engineers.

Designs, integrates, and tests electrical, electro-mechanical, and software-driven systems for autonomous surface vessels. Responsibilities include prototype development, system integration, laboratory and marine field testing, troubleshooting, failure analysis, technical documentation, and collaboration with technicians across electrical, mechanical, and software teams.

Supports system-level manufacturing test operations by resolving production issues, investigating root causes, improving test processes, and developing manufacturing software and automation tools. Analyzes production data to improve quality, yield, efficiency, repeatability, and compliance. Collaborates with manufacturing and cross-functional teams on test stations, process validation, MES systems, CAPA activities, and operational excellence.

Plans, executes, and analyzes tests for electro-mechanical packaging machines and related systems. Develops test plans, procedures, acceptance criteria, and reports; leads factory acceptance, product development, lifecycle, and customer validation testing. Troubleshoots mechanical, electrical, controls, software, and system issues, performs root cause analysis, analyzes data, improves fixtures and test processes, documents defects, and collaborates with engineering, quality, production, materials, and field service teams.

Develops, integrates, tests, and troubleshoots RF communications and sensor systems. Performs antenna, electromagnetic propagation, noise, EMI, shielding, and communication-link testing using specialized RF equipment and software. Analyzes RF hardware, recommends design modifications, manages technical risks, leads field and laboratory testing, and mentors engineers. The role requires collaboration across software and hardware teams and may involve obtaining a U.S. government security clearance.

Develops and implements ATE test strategies for mixed-signal power management devices, including test plans, programs, hardware interfaces, silicon characterization, qualification, failure analysis, yield improvement, and test-time optimization. Collaborates with design and production teams to transition products into volume manufacturing while ensuring robust, cost-effective solutions and product quality.

Conduct real-time testing of developmental turreted weapon systems, develop test methods from system requirements, document findings, evaluate system designs, verify system-level performance, interpret customer specifications, and recommend engineering approaches. The onsite role may require up to 25% travel and access to export-controlled information.

Develops and executes validation for silicon photonics products, photonic and electrical integrated circuits, optical subsystems, and reference modules. Builds automated test software and controls laboratory instrumentation, performs high-speed optical and electrical characterization, analyzes BER, eye diagrams, and signal performance, and validates PAM4 transmitters and receivers. Collaborates with hardware, firmware, packaging, optics, manufacturing, and product engineering teams while documenting results and communicating recommendations.

Own ATE testing and characterization of mixed-signal power management ICs, including test planning, ATE hardware and program development, KGD and package-level testing, qualification, bench debugging, and production support. Coordinate engineering vendors, drive yield and cost improvements, review customer test data, and assist with failure and root-cause analysis. The role requires mixed-signal IC test expertise, Python programming, lab equipment experience, and strong analytical and communication skills.

Design, develop, and test EMI/EMC and RF aspects of navigation products. Oversee lab activities, coordinate EMI/EMC design efforts, mentor hardware teams on best practices, and coordinate EMI/EMC testing with cross-functional teams in a hybrid work environment.