Test Engineer

• 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)

ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space. We deliver persistent monitoring capabilities to detect and respond to changes in any location on Earth.

ICEYE owns the world's largest and most advanced SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation. To our customers we provide intelligence with unmatched quality, latency and revisit times, in any weather, day or night. To governments who choose to operate their own constellation we provide this proven capability as a sovereign system.

ICEYE-built constellations serve customers in defence and intelligence, environmental monitoring, insurance and emergency management. We enable fast decisions that contribute to a safer future.

Founded and headquartered in Finland, ICEYE operates globally with over 1000 employees across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

Your day-to-day responsibilities

• 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.

• 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

• 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)

• 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.

• Application Screening

• TA call

• Hiring Manager call

• Onsite interview