Senior Test Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Develop and execute test plans for complex electrical, mechanical, and integrated aerospace systems.
• Own the full test lifecycle, including planning, setup, execution, data collection, analysis, reporting, and corrective action.
• Design and support test setups, fixtures, instrumentation plans, and data acquisition approaches.
• Perform functional, environmental, structural, vibration, thermal, electrical, endurance, qualification, and system-level testing where applicable.
• Support integration testing across mechanical, electrical, aerospace, manufacturing, and systems engineering teams.
• Identify, document, and troubleshoot hardware issues, performance gaps, and failure modes.
• Work with design engineering teams to understand requirements and define practical verification methods.
• Support test readiness reviews, safety reviews, range testing, and formal verification activities.
• Analyse test data and provide clear technical recommendations to engineering and leadership.
• Maintain disciplined documentation of test procedures, results, anomalies, corrective actions, and lessons learned.
• Improve test processes, test coverage, and engineering quality standards as the company scales.
• Support fast-moving program milestones while maintaining technical rigour and safety standards.

Technical & Engineering Test Responsibilities

• Develop test procedures for hardware, electromechanical systems, mechanical assemblies, electrical systems, and integrated aerospace platforms.
• Define instrumentation requirements, measurement methods, sensor placement, and data collection plans.
• Support hardware-in-the-loop, system integration, and field testing where applicable.
• Troubleshoot electrical, mechanical, structural, thermal, and integration issues during test campaigns.
• Conduct root cause analysis and support corrective action planning.
• Validate system performance against engineering requirements, operating conditions, and mission needs.
• Support reliability testing, qualification testing, acceptance testing, and failure investigations.
• Work with design engineering to improve testability, reliability, maintainability, and manufacturability.
• Prepare and lead test readiness activities, including test plans, risk assessments, equipment readiness, safety considerations, and execution procedures.
• Ensure test activity is conducted safely, accurately, and in line with program, quality, and compliance requirements.

Operational & Engineering Support

• Partner with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and program teams to define verification and validation strategies.
• Support key program milestones through test planning, execution, and reporting.
• Provide technical feedback to improve hardware design, system performance, and reliability.
• Help develop quality standards and best practices for physical test activity.
• Support documentation and reporting required for internal, customer, regulatory, or compliance purposes.
• Participate in cross-functional design reviews, engineering reviews, test reviews, and failure investigations.
• Take ownership of additional engineering quality and test initiatives as the company scales.

What You’ll Bring

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience in test engineering, hardware validation, systems test, product validation, qualification testing, or engineering verification.
• Hands-on experience testing complex physical systems, electrical systems, mechanical assemblies, hardware, or integrated platforms.
• Strong understanding of test planning, test procedures, instrumentation, data capture, and test reporting.
• Experience supporting test readiness reviews, safety reviews, formal verification events, or qualification campaigns.
• Ability to analyse complex technical systems and identify likely failure modes.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across hardware, systems, electrical, or mechanical domains.
• Ability to work with engineers across multiple disciplines to identify issues and drive practical solutions.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and technical reporting skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup or high-growth engineering environment.
• Strong ownership mindset and disciplined approach to quality, reliability, and safety.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in aerospace, defense, robotics, automotive, energy, advanced manufacturing, industrial hardware, or mission-critical systems.
• Experience with environmental testing, vibration testing, thermal testing, structural testing, endurance testing, electrical systems testing, or qualification testing.
• Experience with hardware-software integration from a systems or hardware test perspective.
• Experience using test equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, DAQ systems, sensors, load cells, pressure transducers, thermal chambers, vibration tables, power supplies, or similar.
• Experience supporting range safety, field testing, flight testing, ground testing, or test safety planning.
• Familiarity with requirements verification, qualification testing, acceptance testing, or compliance-driven test environments.
• Experience supporting root cause analysis, failure review boards, corrective action processes, or non-conformance investigations.
• Basic scripting or data analysis capability, such as Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW, or similar, is a plus, but this is not a software test role.

What We’re Looking For

• A hands-on test engineer who is comfortable working directly with hardware.
• Someone who understands how physical systems fail and how to test them properly.
• A disciplined engineer who can build clear test plans, execute safely, and document results accurately.
• Strong technical judgement and the ability to separate symptoms from root cause.
• A proactive problem-solver who can identify risk before it becomes a program issue.
• Someone who can work across electrical, mechanical, systems, manufacturing, and quality teams.
• A high-ownership operator who can bring structure to test activity in a fast-moving aerospace and defense environment.

Growth Opportunity

This role provides the opportunity to help shape the test and validation function at a rapidly growing aerospace and defense company.

The Senior Test Engineer will work closely with engineering leadership and play a critical role in ensuring Tiberius Aerospace’s systems are reliable, safe, testable, and ready for mission-critical deployment. As the company scales, this person will help build the standards, processes, and test infrastructure needed to support increasingly complex hardware programs.