Systems Integration and Test Engineer
$132,679–$132,679 year
On-siteFort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Job Summary
Own the full integration and test lifecycle for complex System-of-Systems, including plan authorship, execution, anomaly resolution, and formal reporting across autonomy, RF communications, UGVs, small UAS, electronic warfare, munitions, and fuzes. Resolve cross-subsystem interface, timing, and interoperability issues while developing use-case-driven verification scenarios with formal requirements traceability. Lead bench and field test execution, instrument data acquisition systems, and script Python-based automation for data reduction and post-test analysis. Author audit-ready technical documentation and integration guides for government milestone reviews within an Agile workflow using Jira and Confluence. Support test readiness reviews and validation evidence presentations to program leadership and customers. Travel up to 25% to customer and contractor test ranges for event-driven range testing.
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 with formal requirements traceability
- Experience in an Agile environment with Jira and 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, typically 1-2 weeks at a time)
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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