# Lead Avionics Test Engineer

Astrolab is The Lunar Operations Company. We design and build the systems and hardware the lunar economy will come to depend on - rovers, power, and data networks for sustained operations on the Moon. We are focused on the problems that must be solved before the next chapter of human exploration can scale. The Moon does not forgive untested assumptions. The people who work here know that, and they wouldn't have it any other way. The Lead Avionics Test Engineer will build and manage a team of test engineers responsible for the avionics test architecture, automated test system development, and manufacturing test infrastructure that verifies every rover avionics unit before it leaves the factory. You will define how avionics hardware gets tested at Astrolab, setting standards, shaping testable designs, and building the systems and team to execute at production scale. What you'll do: Build and lead a team of avionics test engineers including hiring, setting technical direction, executing priorities, and fostering a culture of ownership, craftsmanship, and collaboration Own the full lifecycle of avionics unit test systems: architecture definition, rack design (DCR, PDR, CDR, TRR), impl

- **Id**: 1011097
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/venturi-astrolab-lead-avionics-test-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Hawthorne, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-16T20:03:26Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T11:08:06Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 50
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3741
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Aerospace Manufacturing, Space Services

## Company

- **Id**: 176589
- **Name**: Venturi Astrolab
- **Domain**: astrolab.space
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/venturi-astrolab>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Pinpoint

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 18
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 160000
- **Max**: 240000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 240000

## Technologies

- **Altium Designer** — Optional: yes
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **MIL-STD-810** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 50

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-17T20:03:26Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 21
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.604
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 50
- **Expected fill days**: 18
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 240000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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