Test Engineering Specialist -
Montreal, QC

Company Description

Xiphos Systems Corporation, founded in 1996, is a vibrant and energetic company in the heart of Montreal’s Plateau area. For over 20 years, we have pushed the envelope of what is possible in NewSpace and secured the trust of various space agencies and space companies around the world. The industry has adopted our design approach and, as a result, we have been experiencing several years of rapid, steady growth and the trend is continuing!

Our vision is to migrate terrestrial computing and network communication techniques into space environments. The company’s expertise in networked processors has evolved into a line of high-performance, fault-tolerant flight control and sensor processing hardware and software solutions in wide and varied advanced space applications.

Xiphos’ primary markets are small satellites, space station applications, as well as lunar landers and rovers. We have delivered our standard and custom products all over the world and have been essential to many successful space missions. Our current line of standard hardware products includes the highly capable Q-cards and numerous derivatives of, and daughterboards for, the same. With low power consumption, high processing power, excellent robustness, and proven functions available off-the-shelf, our Q-cards are increasingly the preferred solution in the fast-growing field of NewSpace.

Main Tasks

Reporting to the Test Engineering Lead, Xiphos is looking for an experienced Test Engineering Specialist with hands-on experience working with aerospace flight hardware. In this role, you will be writing test plans and procedures based on customer requirements, testing electronics, developing test scripts, and executing automated tests. Depending on the projects, you may also travel to various test facilities as required to conduct on-site qualification and acceptance tests of flight hardware. The responsibilities for this position require the ideal candidate to work entirely on-site.

Responsibilities

• Create functional test plans and test infrastructure for Xiphos products
  
• Planning, execution, and analysis of qualification test campaigns (radiation, environmental) for Xiphos products
• Test script development/continuous improvement (Python, RobotFramework)
• Working with other engineering disciplines to move development projects into a production-ready state
• Test harness design
• Support the production team with functional testing of Xiphos’ flight hardware
• Ability to read and understand HW schematics, design documents, etc.
  

REQUIRED

EXPERIENCE

• Degree in electrical, computer, aerospace, or related engineering field
• Python
  
• Linux OS
• Extensive experience with electronics lab instruments/EGSE
• Radiofrequency (RF) design/testing
• Must be able to obtain Canadian government security clearance (Canadian Controlled Goods Program)

NICE TO HAVE EXPERIENCE

• Space hardware/satellites
• Robot Framework
• Embedded SW development
• JIRA/Confluence
• Visual inspections of PCBs, familiarity with IPC standards
• Manual soldering/ PCB rework proficiency

Qualifications

• Completed Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or other related area of study
• 7+ years of experience working withing a test engineering environment
• Must be able to obtain Canadian government security clearance
• Bilingual (French, English). The person in this position communicates regularly with the technical teams of our partner companies and clients located outside Canada.
  
  

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