Lead Integration & Test Engineer
On-siteRio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
Job Summary
Lead warhead-to-vehicle integration activities including mechanical mating, electrical interface verification, fuze/S&A installation, and safe separation testing. Develop and execute comprehensive vehicle-level Integration & Test plans covering functional checkout, ordnance arming sequences, environmental qualification, and system verification. Design and commission integration tooling, test fixtures, and automated test equipment for warhead handling and full missile assembly. Oversee environmental stress screening and functional performance testing of integrated warhead-vehicle systems. Support flight test preparation, range coordination, pre-flight checkout, and post-flight data analysis and anomaly resolution. Perform root-cause investigations and corrective actions for integration and test anomalies using FRACAS and fault tree analysis. Ensure full compliance with explosive safety standards, DoD 6055.09, MIL-STD-810, and mission assurance requirements. Mentor integration & test engineers and lead cross-functional I&T teams during build and test campaigns. Drive continuous improvement in integration processes, test automation, and digital thread implementation for faster iteration cycles. Deliver a production-ready integration & test process in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, while scaling from low-rate to full volume production.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field
- 8+ years in integration and test for complex aerospace or defense systems
- 4+ years specifically working with warheads, munitions, or energetic systems integration
- Demonstrated leadership of vehicle-level integration and test campaigns, preferably on missile or hypersonic programs
- Strong experience with ordnance handling, safe-and-arm devices, and energetic materials integration
- Proficiency in test automation (LabVIEW, Python, MATLAB), data acquisition systems, and telemetry
- Hands-on with environmental testing and ordnance functional verification
- Requirements management and configuration control
- Familiarity with 3D CAD for integration planning
- Direct experience on DoD missile or hypersonic warhead programs
- Background in fast-paced development environments
- Knowledge of insensitive munitions and advanced warhead designs
- Prior flight test support at ranges
- Experience with classified programs and TS/SCI level work
- Proven ability to lead technical teams in high-stakes, safety-critical environments
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for executive and customer briefings
- Strong problem-solving under stringent safety and schedule constraints
- Bias to Action and Creative Problem Solving
- Desire and experience questioning assumptions in ways that lead to break through ideas that are ultimately implemented
- Successfully bring in applicable processes/concepts/materials from other industries to achieve efficiency gains
- Ability to personally resolve minor issues in development without requiring significant support
- High Commitment, High Initiative
- Genuine passion for Castelion's mission
- Ability to work in a fast paced, autonomously driven, and demanding atmosphere
- Strong sense of accountability and integrity
- Proactively communicates blockers
- Trusted in previous roles to be voice of company with regulators, suppliers, gate keepers and customers
- Capable of tactfully managing relationships with stakeholders to achieve company-desired outcomes without compromising relationships
- Emails, IMs and verbal interactions are logical, drive clarity, and detailed enough to eliminate ambiguity
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national
- Must be a U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder)
- Must be a Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157
- Must be an Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158
- Must be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
Desired Qualifications
- Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field
- Missile or hypersonic programs
- Fast-paced development environments
- Insensitive munitions and advanced warhead designs
- Prior flight test support at ranges
- Experience with classified programs and TS/SCI level work
- Bias to Action and Creative Problem Solving
- Desire and experience questioning assumptions in ways that lead to break through ideas that are ultimately implemented
- Successfully bring in applicable processes/concepts/materials from other industries to achieve efficiency gains
- Ability to personally resolve minor issues in development without requiring significant support
- High Commitment, High Initiative
- Genuine passion for Castelion's mission
- Ability to work in a fast paced, autonomously driven, and demanding atmosphere
- Strong sense of accountability and integrity
- Proactively communicates blockers
- Trusted in previous roles to be voice of company with regulators, suppliers, gate keepers and customers
- Capable of tactfully managing relationships with stakeholders to achieve company-desired outcomes without compromising relationships
- Emails, IMs and verbal interactions are logical, drive clarity, and detailed enough to eliminate ambiguity
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