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Test Design Engineer II

🏢 Astro Mechanica · 📍 San Francisco · ⏰ FullTime
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

ABOUT US:

Astro Mechanica is a vertically integrated aerospace company developing a scalable technology platform to power critical infrastructure, mission operations, and the future of flight. We apply aerospace engineering and quality standards across our products, delivering high performance, reliability, and efficiency for the most demanding operating environments. Astro Mechanica is backed by leading venture and strategic investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Giant Step Capital, United Airlines Ventures, and Voyager Ventures.

WHO WE ARE:

We’re a team of passionate engineers dedicated to advancing aerospace. We’re generalists with specialist depth, united by a flat structure and a shared obsession with building things that work well. We move fast, stay pragmatic, and let engineering excellence speak louder than hierarchy.

WHO YOU ARE:

Astro Mechanica is looking for a Test Engineer to join our growing team. The ideal candidate is someone who designs, fabricates, operates, and improves the test infrastructure supporting our innovative jet engine and subsystems. Your work at Astro Mechanica will keep test operations running smoothly, while constantly expanding and improving test capabilities. You will work closely with your peers to execute projects to a high level of quality.

In this role, your mission will be to create and operate test infrastructure for hardware research and development. You will have firsthand responsibility that every new design is rigorously tested to ensure quality and performance metrics are met prior to aircraft integration and before leaving the ground. You embody the test-like-you-fly philosophy.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

  • Design test stands, fixtures, and supporting hardware to enable new test capabilities

  • Conduct analyses for appropriate fluid system component performance

  • Develop detailed test plans, instrumentation schemes, and data collection methods to capture high-fidelity

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Astro Mechanica Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Extreme engineering first-principles thinking, rapid hardware build-test-learn cycles, and relentless drive for aerospace propulsion disruption.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Reliance on textbook aerospace bureaucracy and slow, risk-averse development loops.
  • 2. Inability to defend mechanical design choices under rigorous first-principles interrogation.
  • 3. Lack of hands-on shop floor experience or reluctance to get hands dirty.
✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I design and build high-performance propulsion hardware using strict first-principles engineering to compress multi-year aerospace timelines into weeks.

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