Materials Test Engineer - Composittes & Space Hardware (all genders)

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

THE WHY

To end COPV failure in spaceflight. Every structural design decision at Blackwave rests on material data — and that data is only as good as the test campaign behind it. This role builds our materials database for safety-critical structural components: auditable, reproducible, and directly usable for design and qualification. No trustworthy data, no trustworthy hardware.

THE WHAT

You own material test campaigns end-to-end — from test planning, specimen matrices, and rig design through mechanical, thermal, and physical characterization to validated, reviewed datasets in our central materials database. You challenge test methods on their actual informative value, not just their formal correctness.

You ensure:

• every dataset entering the materials database is reviewed, reproducible, and traceable from specimen to report
• no result leaves the lab without explicit uncertaint...