Senior Test Infrastructure Engineer
Loft Orbital
Other Engineering
Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
Posted on Feb 8, 2025
Wanna join the adventure?
As a Test Infrastructure Engineer, you will primarily help deploy and maintain our test infrastructure and the tools for automating both our hardware and software testing, that will help us scale as a company. We are looking for engineers with a product mindset, who have a good grasp on test infrastructure and test benches, software engineering principles and experience with setting up software infrastructure. Additionally, we are looking for someone who is:
- Able to work independently with some guidance.
- Able to wear multiple hats as needs arise.
- Not afraid to get out of their comfort zone to explore and learn.
About This Role:
- Deploying and maintaining our Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) test benches that emulates spacecraft avionics, enabling comprehensive testing and ensure high availability and reliability for continuous integration and testing.
- Setup and maintain the various test stations of our integration facility into our test environment to ensure high availability and reliability for continuous integration and testing.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand and meet their testing needs, ensuring the platform is flexible and easy to use.
Must Haves:
- 5+ years of working on Linux, networking
- Hands-on experience involving embedded hardware, such Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, microcontrollers, or similar (can be personal or professional experience)
- Experience debugging issues with Linux system management (systemd, networkd, file system etc.)
- Understanding VLANs, OSI layers, tracing packets from one source to another, TCP dump/wireshark, UDP vs. TCP
- Proficient in Python experience
- Understanding of how to create, configure, and manage Docker containers
- Experience with one or more continuous integration tools
Nice to Haves:
- Experience setting up Gitlab CI/CD pipelines
- Experience setting up automated hardware in the loop (HIL) test benches
- Experience using Kubernetes
Orbitworks' mission is to make space simple for organizations that want to deploy physical and virtual missions to space. Building on Loft Orbital's heritage, Orbitworks will be the first commercial firm in the United Arab Emirates to mass-manufacture satellites. Orbitworks aims to manufacture tens of satellites annually and operates out of a 50,000-square-foot facility in Abu Dhabi.