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Salary: USD 77,000 - 116,000 / annual
Inversion Space is an aerospace and defense company pioneering advanced reentry technology for next-generation space missions. The company designs and manufactures highly maneuverable reentry spacecraft (Arc) for rapid global cargo delivery, hypersonic testing, and national security applications. Headquartered in Los Angeles and backed by Y Combinator, Spark Capital, and Lockheed Martin Ventures, Inversion integrates design, manufacturing, and integration under one roof.
As a Hardware Test and Automation Engineer I, you will join the simulation team to build, test, maintain, and develop automated software and hardware systems supporting simulation and test environments for flight systems. The simulation team ensures continuous integration and testing of flight software and hardware under realistic flight conditions. You will automate electrical ground support equipment (EGSE) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test benches to enable fast, repeatable development and deployment workflows.
Key responsibilities include:
- Automate provisioning, deployment, execution, operation, and logging tasks to optimize resource utilization
- Develop automated test scripts supporting qualification efforts for flight software and hardware systems
- Develop device API wrappers for EGSE equipment (power supplies, oscilloscopes, etc.) for automated control
- Develop emulators for flight hardware supporting software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing
- Integrate electronics hardware for on-demand HIL simulation workflows, including custom harnessing, safe-to-mate procedures, component power-up, and hardware interface troubleshooting
- Contribute to design and development of a simulation system capable of automatically provisioning and deploying resources for simulation workflows
Your work will empower engineering teams to iterate rapidly throughout the development lifecycle and strengthen Inversion's ability to deliver products to customers with unprecedented speed and agility.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or equivalent technical experience
- Typically 1+ years of applicable hands-on hardware experience
- Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (Python, Lua, Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
- Proficiency in one or more embedded languages (C/C++, Rust, etc.)
- Experience with Linux-based systems
- Experience handling and integrating unhoused/open-frame custom electronics and prototype hardware
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government Secret/Top Secret security clearance
- ITAR compliance: Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with data acquisition and logging
- Experience with robotics middleware and autonomy stacks (ROS 2, Webots, Orocos, YARP, etc.)
- Familiarity with modern DevOps practices
- Familiarity with time-series databases (InfluxDB, QuestDB, Prometheus, etc.)
- Familiarity with message-oriented middleware (NATS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Docker Compose, etc.)
