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title: Senior Electrical Test Engineer at Northwood
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| **Company** | Northwood |
| **Location** | Torrance, CA |
| **Salary** | $118.4K/yr - $170K/yr |
| **Type** | Full Time |
| **Posted** | Sep 25, 2026 |
## Description

**About Northwood:**

Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company bringing the benefits of space to the masses through advanced communications technology. We are building a global network of phased array ground stations that enable real-time, reliable communication for satellite missions such as national security, global connectivity, and disaster response. With a vertically integrated approach, Northwood designs, builds, and rapidly deploys scalable systems that power the next generation of space missions. If you like solving complex challenges and seeing your work deployed around the world with real impact, Northwood is the place to do it.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead integrated test development from concept through production, including test strategy, requirements, and execution plans

- Design hardware, wiring, and electrical systems to support electrical and RF testing for both production and development needs (fixtures, harnesses, interfaces, rack integration)

- Develop modular and reusable test automation software, including frameworks, drivers, and tooling in Linux environments using Python / Rust / C++

- Own test maintainability and reliability across the lifecycle — defining calibration, upkeep, debugging, and continuous improvement of test assets

- Create device and subsystem simulators for hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) and automated integration testing

- Support environmental and qualification testing (thermal, vibration, shock), including defining instrumentation and test procedures where needed

**Basic Qualifications:**

- 4+ Years of Experience + Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

- Strong programming abilities (Python, C++, Rust), and comfort developing in a Linux-based environment

- Hands-on experience with electrical test equipment such as power supplies, DC loads, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and network analyzers

 

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience root-causing issues in integrated electronics (mixed-signal, digital, RF-adjacent systems)

- Familiarity with MIL-STD-810 test methods, including vibration, shock, and thermal testing

- Experience designing test racks / ATE systems (PXI, USB/LXI instrumentation, custom interfaces) and scaling them into production

- Experience writing reusable test software patterns (hardware abstraction layers, driver libraries, test sequencing frameworks)

- Comfort working at the boundary between HW + SW: firmware bring-up, control interfaces (I2C/SPI/UART), fault injection, telemetry capture

**Additional Requirements:**

- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed

 

**Compensation:**

Test Engineer/Level 3: $118,400-$148,000 per year

Test Engineer/Level 4: $136,000 - $170,000 per year

**Additional Information:**

If you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.

*To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.*

Northwood Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Northwood Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
## Skills

- Debugging
- Automated Test Equipment
- ITAR Compliance
- Hardware-in-the-Loop (Hil) Testing
- RF Testing
- Qualification Testing
- Calibration
- I2c
- Mil-std-810
- Thermal Testing
- Python
- Software Design Patterns
- Logic Analyzer
- Fault Injection
- Test Strategy Development
- Network Analyzers
- Electrical Systems
- Continuous Improvement Process
- Hardware Bring-up
- Climbing Equipment
- Mixed-Signal Design
- Integration Testing
- Electrical Wiring
- C++
- Software Maintainability
- Electrical Testing
- Automated Testing
- Power Supply Design
- USB
- Oscilloscope
- SQL Query Execution Plans
- Rust
- Export Control Compliance
- Linux
- Serial Peripheral Interface (Spi)
- Human-in-the-Loop
- Shock Management
- Telemetry
- Electrical Engineering
- Writing
- UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter)
- Firmware

## How to Apply

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