# Principal Engineering Technician

We are looking to add an Principal Engineering Technician t o our team. If you are excited about working in a startup environment, have a strong work ethic, and are passionate about cutting-edge electronics, we would like to hear from you. In this position, you will work closely with CesiumAstro engineers to create Antenna & RF test setups, execute test plans, troubleshoot complex RF systems, and produce timely, reliable test results. You will have the opportunity to use and maintain state-of-the-art electronics lab instrumentation, such as anechoic chambers, spectrum analyzers, VNAs, signal generators, oscilloscopes, automated power supplies/loads, and more. You will also be expected to identify opportunities for process improvements and help develop efficient, repeatable test methodologies. Many of our products include active phased arrays (a.k.a. active electronically scanned arrays, or AESAs). These are antenna products with active RF circuitry integrated with the antenna. This adds complexity to the test architecture, including power, digital control, and thermal effects. As such, direct experience with phased array (or AESA) testing is strongly preferred. Core day-to-day acti

- **Id**: 4102695
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cesiumastro-principal-engineering-technician>
- **Role**: Field & Service
- **Role family**: Field & Service
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Westminster, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T19:18:31Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T09:14:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3732
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Embedded & Electronics Design, Satellite Communications, RF & Wireless Hardware

## Company

- **Id**: 5315
- **Name**: CesiumAstro
- **Domain**: cesiumastro.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cesiumastro>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.59
- **Repost share**: 0.026
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 47
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 46
- **Max**: 56
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: hour
- **Usd annual**: 112000

## Technologies

- **Confluence** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Teams** — Optional: no
- **SharePoint** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T22:02:40Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 47
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 112000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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