Flight Termination Engineer Lead - Hypersonics
$107,900–$195,050 year
On-siteHuntsville, Alabama, United States
Job Summary
Serve as the Responsible Engineer and IPT Lead for the Flight Termination System, conducting technical reviews, failure investigations, and supplier engagements. Decompose requirements, interface with the Range Commanders Council, and lead cross-functional task teams to execute non-conformance and root cause corrective action investigations. Provide rapid integration and troubleshooting support for system-level integration while managing risk, issues, and opportunities to meet RCC-319 and RCC-324 qualification plans. Support the production and test of avionics for the Army's Common Hypersonic Glide Body program, ensuring designs meet MIL-STD-810 and ASME/IEEE standards. This role requires a BS or MS in Electrical Engineering with 8+ years of experience in electronics integration, test, and troubleshooting within a fast-paced defense environment.
Required Qualifications
- A BS in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited institution
- 8+ years of relevant experience (or 12+ years of relevant experience in lieu of degree)
- or a MS in Electrical Engineering and 6+ years of relevant experience
- Must be capable of reading engineering drawings, electrical schematics, cable/wiring diagrams, and the corresponding work instructions to produce complex assemblies and provide valuable feedback to program leadership
- Provide rapid integration and troubleshooting support for system-level integration
- Experience in electronics integration, test, and troubleshooting
- Experience in environmental testing of avionics
- Experience in writing qualification plans to meet RCC-319 and RCC-324 requirements
- Experience with risk, issues, and/or opportunity management
- Knowledge of test procedure development
- Knowledge of circuit design – analog, digital, power
- Organizational skills to document designs, assist with Technical Data Packages (TDP) and support production and test of the avionics
- Candidate must have demonstrated experience in effectively communicating within a team environment, which will include the government customer, industry partners, test, and manufacturing engineers
Desired Qualifications
- Active DoD Secret clearance
- Experience with manufacturing and production of avionics components
- Familiarity with instrumentation, test equipment, and test methods including the use of oscilloscopes, multimeters, signal generators, etc.
- Knowledge of post test data processing
- Knowledge of test development to support troubleshooting hardware failures
- Experience in a MIL-STD-810 Test Environment
- Knowledge of ASME and IEEE standards
- Experience supporting DoD programs related to missile systems, reentry vehicles, or hypersonic technologies
- Prior work in assembly, integration, or testing of missile systems
- Experience supporting rapid development, prototyping, or fast-paced engineering programs
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