Stratolaunch accelerates the development of next-generation aerospace and defense technologies through reusable hypersonic flight testing. Our autonomous, air-launched Talon-A vehicles provide access to operationally realistic flight environments at speeds exceeding Mach 5, delivering critical data that helps customers validate system performance and advance technologies toward deployment. Our team brings together expertise in engineering, manufacturing, and flight operations to solve complex challenges and advance capabilities essential to national security.

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a level II or Sr-level Avionics Engineer to support design, integration, testing, and maintenance of hypersonic aircraft avionics systems. This role will have a focus in Telemetry (TM). This position will include collaborating with other system owners to understand test requirements and operations support needs for multiple test ranges.

Essential Responsibilities

Contribute to instrumentation, network, & telemetry (data) system requirements development, architecture design, testing, & operation for local and extended range missions.
Support flight operations by ensuring data system assets are prepared for flight test.
Support the selection of and harness design for new sensors, data acquisition units, computers, network switches, and other equipment.
Manage and configure the aircraft instrumentation system to provide real time data for mission monitoring as well as logged data for post-flight analysis
Support the development and maintenance of software tools as required, including configuration management, simulation, deployment, and analysis tools.
Determine, document, and manage subsystem requirements for each new configuration
Develop and support instrumentation, network, & telemetry tests as required.
Support integration testing such as power checks, sensor calibration, and equipment checkout
Collaborate with design engineers, network engineers, and technicians as required to accomplish goals.
Prepare data system material to present at design reviews and flight readiness reviews and in post operation reviews.
Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments.

Qualifications and Skills

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications

Experience in Telemetry, Instrumentation, or Network engineering in an operational or regulated test environment.
Experience with Ethernet networking and familiarity with TCP, UDP, multicasting, etc.
Experience with integrating data acquisition instrumentation (Analog, discrete, and digital protocols such as ARINC 429, etc) from distributed systems with mission control software.
Knowledgeable with RF devices such as transmitters, receivers, encoders/decoders, or similar
Experience with data acquisition systems and dataloggers
Experience writing system requirements
Excellent written & verbal communication
Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance at the SECRET or above level

Required Computer Skills

Expertise with at least one programming languages, including but not limited to C/C++/C#, Python
Familiarity with continuous integration toolchains such as Jenkins or Bamboo
Experience with source control systems, such as Git
Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Visio)

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with complex payload and/or guided systems
Experience integrating a high Mach or hypersonic system onto a military platform
Flight test program instrumentation system experience
Experience designing & manufacturing aircraft harnesses
Aircraft and/or launch vehicle development experience
Experience with configuring and monitoring RF telemetry components for end-to-end testing (encode, transmit, receive, decode)