Systems Integration and Test Engineer
On-siteFort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Job Summary
Conduct full lifecycle integration and test for complex System-of-Systems capabilities, resolving interface, timing, and interoperability issues across autonomy, RF communications, UGVs, small UAS, electronic warfare, and munitions. Author test plans, execute bench and field instrumentation using oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers, and lead range execution with up to 25% travel to customer sites. Develop Python automation scripts for data reduction and post-test analysis, while maintaining formal requirements traceability through CAMEO and Confluence in an Agile environment. Present test readiness reviews and audit-ready documentation to government customers and program leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or a related Science or Mathematics field
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience
- Master's degree
- Minimum of 6 years of relevant experience
- Department of Defense Secret security clearance required at time of hire
- U.S. Government security investigation eligibility
- Eligibility requirements for access to classified information
- U.S. citizenship
- Demonstrated I&T experience on complex hardware/software systems
- Support of test plan authorship
- Execution of test plans
- Anomaly resolution
- Formal reporting
- Hands-on System-of-Systems integration experience
- Resolving interface, timing, and interoperability issues across dissimilar subsystems
- Multi-disciplinary integration experience spanning autonomy, RF communications, UGVs, small UAS, electronic warfare, munitions, and fuzes
- Experience with bench and field instrumentation: oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and data acquisition systems
- Python scripting for test automation and data reduction
- Experience with use-case-driven or mission-thread-based V&V campaigns
- Formal requirements traceability
- Experience in an Agile environment
- Jira
- Confluence
- Ability to support authoring clear, audit-ready technical documentation for engineering and government customer audiences
- Active DoD Secret security clearance
- Willingness to travel up to 25% to customer and contractor test ranges
- Event-driven travel availability
- 1-2 weeks at a time travel availability
Desired Qualifications
- Defense/aerospace experience with military standards (MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-1316, MIL-STD-882E, MIL-STD-2105)
- RF/communications test experience: waveforms, link testing, tactical/mesh networks, GPS-denied/contested-spectrum operations
- Electronic warfare test experience: signal collection, jamming/countermeasure characterization, range testing
- Autonomy, UGV, and small UAS integration and test—perception, navigation, C2, and human-machine teaming
- Munitions and fuzing experience: setback survivability, safe-and-arm, warhead/effects characterization, lethality testing
- Environmental and qualification test experience (vibration, shock, thermal, EMI/EMC)
- Test automation framework experience (LabVIEW, TestStand, or equivalent)
- Linux test environments and CI/CD for embedded software test
- MBSE and digital-engineering traceability tools
- Experience with VCRMs or VVPs for DoD milestone reviews
- Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to develop I&T artifacts and capabilities
- Active DoD Top Secret clearance
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