SPHEREA Group is the world leader in complex electronic test systems for the aerospace industry.

Our mission is to enable our clients to validate their new products & technologies and commercialize them more quickly and more cost-effectively. We provide our customers with the right test solutions at the right time of their systems development, and we guarantee a long-term sustainability. With an outstanding pedigree and testing in our DNA we are involved in an unlimited field of applications and industries that can range from commercial aircrafts, light armored military vehicles, helicopters, battle tanks, space platforms, nuclear power stations control systems and even complete metro systems.

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SPHEREA Support and Engineering site is in Lenexa, KS.

The Mission

SPHEREA is looking for a Test Engineer to join its Test Program Development team. The primary mission will be to develop and validate test programs running on ATEC Series (Spherea’s Automatic Test Equipment) to allow return to service testing of avionic systems including cockpit panels, radio systems, flight and engine controls.

Travel will be required to customer sites about 5-10 times per year (30-45 days expected.)

Responsibilities

• Develop, validate and maintain test programs and sequences:
• Design test solutions, including hardware interface and software
• Develop software libraries and test sequences
• Integrate and validate test solutions and hardware
• Document and trace test solution to specifications
• Support project management
• Provide regular and accurate progress reports
• Estimate the overall workload to finish the project and the sub-tasks
• Establish priority/planning with project manager
• Identify difficulties, risks and opportunities

Requirements

• Previous experience in software / hardware development for test equipment (electronics, avionics, RF)
• Understand Avionics test requirements, specifications, schematic diagrams
• Electronic/RF measurements skills and tools:
• General purpose test instrumentation (Digital multimeter, Programmable function generator, Digital oscilloscope, …)
• RF instrumentation (RF power meter, synthesizer, spectrum analyzer, …)
• Industry standard communication busses and standards :

Ethernet, TCP/IP and LXI

GPIB IEEE488.2

VXI

RS232/422/485

I2C

Boundary Scan

• Aerospace busses and standards:

ARINC 429

ARINC 664/AFDX

Radio communication, transponder, TCAS

• Programming and automation languages:

C/C++

Python

ATLAS (ARINC 626/716)

NI TestStand, CVI, and/or Labview

Experience with computer operating systems including Windows and Linux.

Technical problem-solving skills

Good attitude and communication skills

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Desired Competencies

• File processing and data extraction (CSV, XML, text)
• Statistical analysis of results
• Data security standards (GPG, SSH, S/MIME, firewalls)

Location

The position is based in Lenexa, KS and is flexible: employee can work from home most days but must be able to regularly go to customer/subcontractor/partner facility.

Other information

Occasional domestic travels (3-5 times a year).

SPHEREA US offers competitive salary and benefits such as but not limited to:

• Annual bonus program
• 401K with no vesting period and 100% company match up to 4%
• Comprehensive healthcare plan