The Lead Test Engineer will own the ground on which every design claim gets proven or killed: the test stand. You will design, build, and run the facilities that take our first engine from cold spin to full power, and the rig program that retires combustor and controls risk in parallel. When the machine runs for the first time, you will be the one at the console.
You will own the test infrastructure end to end: stand structure and mounts, fuel gas train, starting and loading systems, cooling, fire and overspeed protection, and the instrumentation that tells us what the machine is actually doing. Thermocouples, pressure transducers, accelerometers, speed probes, emissions measurement, and the DAQ and control room that turn them into decisions. You will write the test procedures, run the hazard reviews, define abort limits, and enforce them when it’s tempting not to.
Then you will run tests, fast. Turn the stand around between builds in hours, not weeks. Reduce the data the same day, put it next to the predictions, and tell the design team where reality disagrees with the model. Test rate is the company’s iteration speed; you own the denominator.