AI&T IPT Lead - Assembly, Integration and Test (QSS)
$131,000–$220,000 year
On-siteLouisville, Colorado, United States
Job Summary
Lead the QGG Pathfinder AI&T IPT lead role as the hands-on floor manager for integration planning, build flow, readiness gates, and test execution. Own the AI&T plan, integration sequence, and subsystem handoff criteria from planning through system delivery, coordinating daily execution across subsystems, systems engineering, quality, and procurement. Develop and maintain integration procedures, test travelers, configuration records, and customer acceptance evidence while leading TRR-style reviews, anomaly investigations, and recovery planning. Execute functional, interface, environmental, optical, vacuum, and electrical verification activities ensuring compliance with laser safety, high voltage, vacuum, cleanliness, and ESD constraints. Track schedule, resource needs, open issues, and risks for program reporting.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience in assembly, integration, test, verification, production test, or systems test for complex hardware
- Aerospace hardware experience, including integration, verification, environmental test, delivery of flight, flight-relevant, or similarly high-reliability hardware
- Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary integration/test teams through build, checkout, anomaly resolution, and delivery
- Experience writing or approving integration/test procedures, travelers, verification reports, readiness packages, and sell-off evidence
- Experience with environmental or system verification such as thermal/vacuum, vibration, electrical functional test, optical alignment/test, or interface test
- Strong working knowledge of configuration control, test discipline, safety, quality, nonconformance, and hardware handling
- Ability to communicate test status, blockers, risks, and recovery plans clearly to technical teams and program leadership
- Authorization to receive software, hardware, or technology controlled under U.S. export control laws and regulations (EAR/ITAR) without sponsorship for an export license
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with 'go fast' programs where schedule can't slip
- Experience with complex space payloads, flight hardware, or other high-reliability aerospace test programs
- Experience with optical, laser/LIDAR, UHV, high-voltage, precision electromechanical, embedded electronics, or quantum/AMO laboratory systems
- Experience with TRR, ATP, environmental test campaigns, customer-witnessed testing, and formal delivery packages
- Experience building or managing GSE/MGSE/EGSE/OGSE readiness
- Experience supporting EVM, CAM status, IMS execution, or cost/schedule variance reporting
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