Test Engineer - Systems/Electrical

The posting, as KH Aerospace wrote it

Kraus Hamdani Aerospace (KHA) is an aerospace company specializing in long-endurance unmanned aerial platforms for a wide variety of industries. KHA supports a number of customers to carry out missions involving aerial reconnaissance, survey, communication relay and communications provisioning. Endurance, enabled by effective design, is key to these applications and KHA aircraft utilize cutting-edge aircraft design together with on-board intelligence to deliver value for these customers.

Test Engineer - Systems/Electrical

Location Hayward, CA

About the Role

Kraus Hamdani Aerospace is seeking a hands-on Test Engineer - Systems/Electrical to support the development, integration, verification, and validation of electrical and interconnected systems across the KHA family of Ultra Long Endurance unmanned aircraft.

This is not a traditional electrical engineering role, nor is it a pure software engineering role. The ideal candidate understands how complex systems connect and interact across electrical hardware, embedded/software-controlled systems, power, communications, interfaces, sensors, and avionics.

This individual will design test approaches, develop test procedures and fixtures, evaluate system performance under realistic and stressed conditions, troubleshoot integration issues, and help determine whether systems are functioning cleanly, reliably, and as intended.

The ideal candidate is highly analytical, technically curious, and comfortable moving between hardware, software, instrumentation, and system-level problem solving.

Key Responsibilities

Test Engineering & Verification

• Design, develop, and execute test procedures for electrical, avionics, power, communications, and integrated system functionality.
• Develop test plans, test cases, test methods, and acceptance criteria based on engineering requirements and system behavior.
• Design and support development of test fixtures, harnesses, instrumentation setups, and other test infrastructure required for repeatable and effective validation.
• Perform system-level functional, integration, performance, regression, and stress testing across prototype and production-intent hardware.
• Validate systems under expected and maximum operating conditions to identify degradation, instability, voltage drop, signal issues, performance limits, or unexpected interactions.
• Analyze test results to determine not simply whether a system works, but how well it works, how cleanly it performs, where its limitations exist, and how it behaves near operational boundaries.
• Document test configurations, procedures, results, anomalies, conclusions, and corrective actions with clear traceability.

Electrical, Power & Systems Integration

• Test and evaluate electrical power requirements, distribution, loads, voltage behavior, system margins, and performance under varying operating conditions.
• Support integration and troubleshooting of avionics, power systems, sensors, payload interfaces, co

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provide persistent airborne capabilities for some of the world's most demanding missions.

Our technology supports defense, communications, disaster response, search and rescue, environmental monitoring, and other applications where persistent aerial presence can make a meaningful difference.

We are a fast-moving, highly collaborative team where employees have the opportunity to work across disciplines, take meaningful ownership, and directly influence the development and evolution of our aircraft and supporting technologies.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge UAS technology.
• Direct exposure to electrical, systems, software, integration, testing, and flight operations.
• Highly collaborative, multidisciplinary engineering environment.
• Significant opportunity for technical growth, ownership, and professional development.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.

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