Associate Test Engineer

MAKO is an aerospace technology company focused on improving the efficiency of the global aviation fleet by bringing our shark-skin-inspired drag reduction product, Flightfilm, to commercial and defense aircraft. Flightfilm can deliver up to 4% efficiency gains, reducing carbon emissions by millions of tonnes every year. Founded and headquartered in Sydney, Australia, MAKO works with some of the largest airlines and aircraft manufacturers worldwide to deliver scalable, near-term efficiency gains for aviation that bridge the gap between today's operating fleets and the next generation of aircraft technologies.

Your Mission

We are looking for an Associate Test Engineer to design, run and improve the tests that prove MAKO's products and manufacturing systems meet requirements – generating the evidence that tells us Flightfilm is ready for real aircraft. This role is part of the Product Engineering team. You will report to our Verification & Validation Team Lead.

What You Will Do

- Contribute to the design of tests that demonstrate our products meet requirements. You'll help set, gather and document test requirements, and identify test methodologies that demonstrate conformity, with quality, regulatory and safety standards in mind
- Contribute to the design and execution of evaluation and problem-solving activities. You'll execute tests, experiments and investigations that gather meaningful evidence and drive decisions, and analyse data to draw conclusions and make engineering recommendations. You'll maintain traceable documentation and produce well-structured test reports, test records and meeting minutes that others can rely on
- Assess and quantify test and project risk.



You'll assess the risks of developing new test methodologies and those that could impact test or project objectives, evaluate results against acceptance criteria, and keep tests and risks up to date as criteria evolve
- Support handover and customer delivery, and improve how we test. You'll help develop protected and effective standard operating procedures and work instructions, prepare testing documentation for customer deliveries, and perform post-delivery reviews that assess test results and recommend changes to the engineering development pathway

What Success Looks Like

First Month:

You'll spend your first few weeks getting to know our riblet film products, our manufacturing systems, and the test methods and equipment we use today. Once your safety inductions are done, you'll quickly learn where to find the safety and quality documentation you need and how to read it. Along the way you'll get to know the people you'll work with most, across Product Engineering, Materials, Manufacturing, Quality and Certification. With guidance, you'll start running existing test procedures to SOP and writing up test reports to MAKO's standards

First Six Months:

By now you're taking on small test projects, or pieces of larger test campaigns, and seeing them through to completion, prioritising by urgency, impact and what the team needs most.



You'll have helped design and validate a new test from start to finish, from setting the requirements and methodology through to running it, analysing the results and making a recommendation. When a test or product doesn't behave as expected, you'll be part of the investigation and share what you find clearly with the wider engineering team

First Year:

You're owning a test project, or a well-defined part of a larger program, end to end. That includes the risk assessment, SOPs, work instructions and Quality Control points that carry it into manufacturing. You're also helping make our test and evaluation processes more efficient and reliable, and backing your ideas for change with evidence. You keep growing your technical and professional skills by setting goals and acting on feedback, and you're passing on what you've learned to the recent interns and associates coming through

About You

- You have a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science or equivalent
- You have hands-on experience in a laboratory, workshop or test environment, gained through study, thesis projects, placements, internships or work, with careful data capture and record keeping
- You're comfortable working with data, using basic statistics and tools such as Excel, Python or MATLAB to organise, plot and interpret results
- You communicate clearly in writing – for example, through lab reports, a thesis or project documentation
- You take a curious, structured approach to problem-solving, and you're willing to ask questions and act on feedback
- You're safety-conscious and comfortable following procedures when working with technical equipment and chemicals

Why You Should Join MAKO

Problems worth solving

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