Test Engineer- Entry Level

The Jacobs Space Exploration Group (JSEG) offers a partnership, in which you can grow personally and professionally in an environment of strong leadership support, competitive compensations, work/home life balance, and an emphasis on safety. Join JSEG on the Engineering Services and Science Capability Augmentation (ESSCA) contract and be part of a team that is making history.

The Test Engineer will:

·       Support Optical Measurement Systems (ARAMIS, Video Image Correlation, Leica Laser Trackers), Instrumentation, and NASA Data Acquisition Systems for Structural Strength Testing.

·       Setup and operate data acquisition equipment for measuring strain, displacement, and loads for structural testing on large and small space flight qualification articles, and other test articles.

·       Develop innovative ideas for improving the data acquisition hardware, software, and methods.

·       Develop innovative solutions to challenging problems to structural test articles.

Job Duties will include:

·       Coordination with NASA project level customers across organizations to ensure mission success.

·       Work with a diverse team of civil servants and contractors to design, develop, setup, and perform structural testing on space flight qualification hardware, and other mission critical hardware.

·       Participate in a Beyond Zero Safety Culture, attend safety meetings, task meetings, design reviews, and test readiness reviews as requested to support ESSCA and customer requirements.

·       Develop and deliver reports and presentations as requested to support ESSCA and customer requirements via Power Point and other various software packages.

·       Perform safety and certification training to support ESSCA and customer requirements.

·       Familiarity with OSHA standards.

·       Minimum travel required.

BS degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science (or related field) from an ABET accredited institution with 0-5 years’ experience. 

The ideal candidate will be an Engineer with a strong sampling of the following skills and a desire to learn in depth:

·       Experience with data acquisition system.

·       Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new software applications.

·       Basic instrumentation application - utilizing strain gauges, thermocouples, and displacement devices.

·       Familiarity with Machine Vision Image Processing/Correlation concepts and methods.

·       Experience with National instruments LabVIEW development software and or MATLAB for instrumentation acquisition and control.

·       Code generation in Windows or Linux operating systems.

·       Software quality control using QT or GTest libraries.

·       Raspberry Pi/Arduino, Python or C/C++.

·       National Instruments Hardware.

·       Desire to conduct detailed hands-on work in a Lab testing environment on sub scale models to full scale structures in some of NASA’s largest indoor and outdoor test facilities.

·       Operation or development of Control Systems including feedback control loops.