Test Engineer

• Hands-on test experience in an electronics, RF, space or comparable hardware lab: test setups, procedures, execution and reporting

• Comfort with lab instruments (oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, signal generators, power supplies) and basic RF practice (connectors, attenuators, cable loss)

• Scripting for test automation and data analysis, typically Python

• An organised and rigorous way of working: you write things down, version them, and can reproduce last month's result

• Clear written English

Nice to haves:

• Satellite AIT, flatsat or hardware-in-the-loop testing

• SDR experience, RF capture or signal analysis

• Test automation frameworks, CI pipelines, instrument control (SCPI/VISA)

• Test data management, databases, dashboards

• Verification under a formal process (ECSS or similar)

• Experience setting up a lab from scratch: equipment selection, layout, safety, calibration programme

• Spanish, for working with local suppliers and facilities

• Eligibility for national security clearance (an advantage)

Our benefits are designed to support your health and wellbeing, at work and beyond. We keep improving them based on employee feedback, and offerings vary by location. Talent Acquisition will confirm what applies for this role and location during the process.

• Test Engineer

• Location: Valencia

• Reports to: Laboratory Lead and Test Architect

• Employment type: Permanent

• Workplace model: Onsite

• Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required)

As our Lab Test Engineer, you'll plan, run, automate and document the lab's tests across simulation, signal capture, playback and hardware in the loop, so results are repeatable and trusted. ICEYE is building a space-based RF constellation covering 100 MHz to 30 GHz alongside its SAR fleet, and the Experimentation Lab in Valencia is where we develop, simulate and validate that capability. We simulate the constellation and its emitters end to end, capture real signals from real hardware, and generate and play back signals through a channel simulator for end-to-end runs and algorithm validation.

A lab that only its builders can operate becomes shelfware. Specialists will build the simulation, the capture system and the playback chain, and you'll turn those into tests that run reliably, on schedule, with traceable results. The role covers the full breadth of the lab: setting up hardware, running campaigns, automating procedures, keeping equipment calibrated and inventoried, and producing evidence that engineers and customers can rely on.

You'll have an early seat in a new lab, with direct influence on how ICEYE builds and proves this capability.

• Plan and run tests across all three lab missions: end-to-end simulation runs, emitter capture sessions, playback and channel simulator campaigns, flatsat and receiver tests, and algorithm validation.

• Write procedures and automate them: turn manual setups into scripted, repeatable test sequences, and add them to regression so each software or firmware build is checked.

• Set up and maintain the lab: instruments, SDRs, cabling, fixtures, the screened enclosure and emitter bays, network and compute. Track calibration, configuration and inventory so every result records what produced it.

• Manage test data: keep recordings, run outputs and metadata organised, searchable and backed up, with the provenance to reproduce a result.

• Analyse and report: compare results to expectations and to previous runs, flag regressions and anomalies, write concise test reports, and log issues with the evidence needed to fix them.

• Support campaigns in the field and in the air, customer and partner demonstrations, and the reproduction of on-orbit anomalies on the ground.

• Run the lab safely: RF safety, ESD, equipment handling, access control and the handling rules for controlled material.

• 6 months: lab equipment is inventoried, calibrated and configuration-tracked, and capture and playback sessions run from written procedures, with data stored and findable.

• 12 months: core tests are automated and running in regression, test reports are produced routinely, and you've supported the first field campaign.

• 24 months: the lab runs as a service. Other teams book and run tests with your procedures, and results arrive with the evidence attached.