Provide engineering leadership for railway communications and operational telecommunications systems on the California High-Speed Rail Program, supporting design, integration, testing, and commissioning.
Compensation
Salary Range: $120,000-$200,000 (based on experience)
Responsibilities
Prepare, review, and approve communications engineering deliverables throughout design, construction, and testing and commissioning
Ensure technical documentation is complete, coordinated, and developed in accordance with Program requirements and applicable standards
Support requirements management, system architecture development, and interface definition activities for communications systems
Review supplier and contractor designs for compliance with Program specifications and operational requirements
Coordinate interfaces between communications, signaling, traction power, SCADA, stations, operations, maintenance facilities, and information technology teams
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field
Nice to have: Professional Engineer (PE) licensure
hands-on technical leadership position supporting the Weather portfolio’s aerospace integration and test activities
Compensation
Sign-On Bonus: A sign-on bonus of up to $50K may be included as part of an offer package for this level
Responsibilities
Drive compliance with safety, quality, test, program, and configuration-management requirements.
Serve as a subject matter expert for integration and test activities involving components, submodules, modules, instruments, payloads, and space-vehicle hardware.
Lead large, complex test initiatives and coordinate execution across engineering, technicians, manufacturing, chamber operations, program teams, customers, suppliers, and support organizations.
Develop test strategies, plans, procedures, verification approaches, resource plans, readiness criteria, and technical briefings.
Provide technical direction during test setup, hardware integration, procedure execution, data collection, data review, requirements verification, and test reporting.
Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 9 years of prior relevant experience; Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
Nice to have: Experience supporting integration and test of space-qualified weather instruments, payloads, flight hardware, or space-vehicle hardware.
Manager, Environmental Control Systems & Thermal Engineering
f7d8749a-72d6-407c-bf98-292ea630c73a · Posted Oct 18, 2026
Lead and develop a team of engineers responsible for environmental control systems, aircraft thermal management, and associated fluid and heat-transfer hardware on the X-BAT program.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Manage, mentor, and develop individual contributors; set goals, give feedback, support growth, and build a high-trust, high-standard team.
Set priorities, ownership, staffing, and execution cadence for X-BAT and Group 5 work; remove blockers and manage dependencies.
Guide ECS and thermal architecture, trades, and design reviews across thermal environments, cooling, airflow, ducting, heat exchangers, fluid circuits, and related hardware.
Set expectations for requirements, reviews, verification, risk management, configuration control, and design release through flight-ready hardware.
Resolve interfaces with structures, propulsion, avionics, EWIS, payloads, manufacturing, systems engineering, and test teams.
Requirements
B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline
Lead integration testing of aircraft software systems, designing test scenarios, managing verification and validation events, and developing Python test analyzers.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Generate detailed mission test scenarios
Participate in design reviews
Conduct and manage system verification and validation events
Write test analyzers in Python
Produce test coverage and release-readiness reports
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related field
Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related field
PhD in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related field
Support the integration, verification, and validation of Hivemind Mission Autonomy across a variety of unmanned aircraft systems and mission applications.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Support test planning and execution for integration of Hivemind Mission Autonomy capabilities onto unmanned platforms and mission-system configurations.
Assist senior test engineers with defining test objectives, expected system behavior, acceptance criteria, verification methods, and test schedules.
Help develop, execute, and maintain system-level test procedures, test cases, checklists, and test configurations.
Support setup, configuration, operation, and troubleshooting of software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, simulation, laboratory, and automated test environments.
Assist with installation, configuration, and verification of test hardware, software, networks, ground-control equipment, sensors, radios, computing systems, and supporting tools as applicable.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline such as Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
Nice to have: Internship, academic research, military, laboratory, personal-project, or professional experience involving UAS, autonomous vehicles, robotics, aviation, embedded systems, or complex integrated systems.
Staff Flight Test Engineer
f7d8749a-72d6-407c-bf98-292ea630c73a · Posted Oct 30, 2026
Lead ground and flight test planning and execution for X-BAT, shaping test strategy and providing technical leadership across the program.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Lead ground and flight test campaigns for X-BAT, including test planning, execution, post-test analysis, and progressive flight envelope expansion.
Assess aircraft and system readiness and define test objectives, test points, build-up approaches, success criteria, and instrumentation requirements.
Develop and review test plans, procedures, flight test cards, hazard analyses, risk assessments, and safety documentation for developmental ground and flight test operations.
Lead and coordinate pre-flight, flight, and post-flight activities, including aircraft configuration, test briefings, mission control room operations, telemetry monitoring, and go/no-go recommendations.
Provide technical leadership during hover, transition, and forward-flight testing, including integrated evaluations of aircraft systems, flight controls, and autonomy.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM Degree)
Nice to have: 10+ years of experience with developmental and/or operational ground and flight test
Nice to have: Group 4-5 UAS and/or fighter type capability
Nice to have: Experience leading large, complex test campaigns involving multidisciplinary engineering teams, technicians, program organizations, customers, and external suppliers.
Nice to have: Expertise in test planning, test-procedure development and execution, readiness reviews, requirements verification, data analysis, and test reporting.
Nice to have: Experience leading troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and anomaly resolution for complex electrical, mechanical, software, or system-level issues.
Nice to have: Exposure to software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, simulation, modeling-and-simulation, or automated test environments.
Nice to have: Familiarity with test automation, scripting, data collection, telemetry analysis, log analysis, or defect-tracking tools.
Nice to have: Exposure to software-development and configuration-management practices, including Git, issue tracking, build systems, continuous integration, or test automation.
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Lead, Integration and Test EngineeringNewL3HHCM20 · Fort Wayne, US
Manager, Environmental Control Systems & Thermal EngineeringNewf7d8749a-72d6-407c-bf98-292ea630c73a · Seattle, US