Principal Electronics Test Engineer I
CesiumAstro — Tracked from its lever job board
About the role
Please Note: To conform with the United States Government Space Technology Export Regulations, the applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., conditional resident, asylee or refugee (protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
At CesiumAstro, we are developers and pioneers of out-of-the-box communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms. We take pride in our dynamic and cross-functional work environment, which allows us to learn, develop, and engage across our organization. If you are looking for hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work, CesiumAstro is the place for you. We are actively seeking passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward-thinking individuals to join our team.
We are looking to add a Principal Electronics Test Engineer I to our team. If you are great at what you do, enjoy working in a startup environment, and are passionate about developing critical test systems for leading-edge satellite, spacecraft, and aerospace communication systems, we would like to hear from you.
In this position, you are responsible for the design, analysis, and implementation of engineering test plans and procedures for board-level electronics products, including power, digital, and RF electronics. The ideal candidate possesses a strong combination of hardware and software knowledge with proficiencies in measurement techniques, test equipment, test architectures, automation, and integrated system testing. The successful candidate will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams to address company-wide test needs.
Senior-level test engineers are distinguished by an ability to architect test systems, to draw insightful conclusions from test results, and to participate in “design for test” planning and review from the early stages of product development. Test engineers are core members of the Cesium technical team.
The successful candidate will present engineering design review materials to our customers and executive team, as well as participate in proposal-writing efforts. As such, excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
What the index says about this role
- First seen by JobLarper — Aug 8, 2026, 1 day ago. Still inside the window where applications get read by a human rather than a pile.
- No pay range in our index for this listing. Across 38 indexed QA & Test Engineer roles in US that do publish one, the middle half sits between $140k and $179k, median $155k — JobLarper's read of the market, not a figure from CesiumAstro.
- What QA & Test Engineer roles ask for — across 415 indexed openings: Python (41%), React Native (26%), REST/APIs (24%), C++ (11%), Go (9%). This posting names React Native.
- CesiumAstro is hiring actively — 170 open roles indexed.
Derived from the 27,016 roles JobLarper indexes daily from official company boards — not from the job description above.
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