R&D Engineer

RAM Aerospace has been powering flight and space exploration since 1975, delivering precision solenoids, valves, actuators, LVDTs, and RVDTs for commercial, defense, and space applications. Operating from facilities in St. George, Utah and Valencia, California, we build mission-critical components that the world's leading aerospace programs depend on. Join a team that builds the future of aerospace, on time, with excellence. Your career takes off here!

Every new RAM Aerospace product has to prove itself on the test bench before it ever reaches a customer, and the R&D Engineer is the person who makes sure it does. In this role, you will support the development, testing, and qualification of new product designs and engineering improvements. You will plan and run prototype builds and tests, develop and execute test methods, analyze results, troubleshoot design and performance issues, and help move new designs from development into production. Working closely with Design Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and our R&D Technicians, you will develop practical engineering solutions that improve product performance and reliability and ensure every design meets its requirements and specifications. If you enjoy hands-on engineering where test data drives the decisions, this role is built for you.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Prototype Builds & Qualification: Plan, coordinate, and execute prototype builds, engineering development testing, and product qualification activities. Apply applicable industry and customer standards when developing and executing engineering tests and qualification activities.
• Test Development & Lab Capability: Develop test setups, fixtures, instrumentation, and test methods to evaluate product performance and design requirements. Identify opportunities to improve test capabilities, laboratory equipment, test automation, and engineering processes.
• Engineering Analysis: Perform engineering calculations, data analysis, and structural analysis as appropriate to support product development and qualification. Analyze test results, identify potential design concerns and failure mechanisms, and recommend engineering solutions.
• Technical Documentation: Develop and maintain test procedures, qualification plans, technical reports, and other engineering documentation as needed.
• Technician Collaboration & Guidance: Work with R&D Technicians and other engineering personnel to support prototype assembly, testing, troubleshooting, and design improvements. Provide technical guidance and support to engineering technicians and interns.
• Transition to Production: Support the transition of new designs from prototype development into production, ensuring assembly, tooling, inspection, and testing requirements are adequately addressed.
• Sustaining Engineering Support: Provide continued engineering support for existing products, including engineering changes, troubleshooting, qualification activities, tooling improvements, and production support. Perform other duties as assigned.