Development Test Technician

📋 Description

• Build, modify, and troubleshoot test equipment (fluid, mechanical, data/control, instrumentation)
• Fabricate high-pressure fluid panels, plumbing, hydraulic manifolds, tubing routing
• Install instrumentation, route harnesses, troubleshoot wiring
• Build, operate, and troubleshoot hydraulic systems (pumps, actuators, servos, winches)
• Assemble/test articles; structural fabrication, leak detection, NDT, instrumentation install
• Rigging and crane operations for test equipment and articles
• Build/modify data and control systems for test stands with thousands of channels
• Maintain, calibrate, monitor, test, troubleshoot instrumentation, DAQ, controls, electrical systems
• Participate in test ops: high-pressure, hazardous, cryogenic fluids
• Connect actuators and instrumentation; monitor video and data

🎯 Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent
• 3+ years in mechanical/fluid systems, instrumentation, data/control, or test ops
• Associate degree in engineering or related field (preferred)
• A&P license
• MS Office, Teamcenter, NX
• Reading schematics, wiring diagrams, specs, blueprints
• Experience with aerospace testing
• Airframe structural repair experience
• Hydraulic plumbing repair/fabrication
• Nondestructive inspection equipment/techniques
• Precision measuring instruments
• Fittings knowledge (NPT, MS, AN, Swagelok)
• Fasteners knowledge (hi-lok, rivets, NAS, MS, SAE)
• Harness fabrication for aerospace or military
• Data acquisition and controls concepts, hardware, interfacing (NI PXI / cSeries, PLC)
• Fabrication of data/control systems (junction boxes, rack mounts)
• Electrical tools: oscilloscopes, multimeters, soldering irons, crimpers
• Troubleshooting instrumentation systems
• DC power supplies, distribution, DC-DC converters, UPS
• Analog/digital instrumentation (load cells, transducers, strain gauges, encoders, accelerometers)
• Ground support equipment fabrication/modification in aerospace
• Rigging, cranes, lift operations
• ITAR: US citizen/national or eligible for authorization

🎁 Benefits

• Standard hours 11:00 am - 9:00 pm
• Shift rotations as site demands
• Travel up to 25% to other SpaceX facilities
• Overtime/weekends as schedule varies
• Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)