Staff Test Engineer – Aht

Staff Test Engineer – Aht

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) with 12+ years experience OR a Master’s Degree in a STEM discipline with 10+ years experience
• Must have an active/current Secret clearance at time of application with the ability to obtain Top Secret
• U.S. citizen
• 3+ years of experience of leadership experience with a history of people management and operational excellence
• Experience running a high-paced product development team across multiple locations and time zones
• An ability to engage in technical discussion and invest in learning technical concepts
• Excellent judgment and composure in high-pressure situations
• Meticulous attention to detail, including holding tightly to your team’s vision and maintaining a high product quality bar
• Ability and willingness to travel

Responsibilities

• Ensures that the program is adhering to sound engineering processes in development and test for our customers and is compliant with company policy, procedures, and quality standards
• Maintains cognizance over technical activities within program Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and ensures horizontal integration of the best engineering practices across the company
• Collaborates with the customer to define the flight test program to include provision of information needed to obtain airworthiness clearance for the missile on the test aircraft, test plans, telemetry visualization requirements, and on-site support for ground checkout and test flight execution
• Provides oversight of Hardware/software engineering STE development
• Develops the test benches to satisfy derived verification requirements
• Manages the test benches to support system integration
• Performs test variant and tactical missile verification and validation test activities
• Collaborates with Systems Engineering on the overall plan and detailed definition of the system verification activities
• Identify potential risks and opportunities that could impact program performance and take proactive action to resolve issues regarding cost and schedule
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customer counterparts
• Communicate effectively and clearly present technical approaches and findings at technical and program reviews and boards

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Top Secret Clearance
• Prior leadership experience in IPT or SEIT Lead roles or equivalent
• Ability to monitor hardware and software design teams with critical insight to know when the teams are not on path to successful implementation and then be able help steer the team to a successful solution
• Deep systems background defining and executing cost and schedule optimal T&E campaigns to support system verification
• Willingness and enthusiasm to do what it takes to get things done, leading by example and getting involved with the team’s day-to-day work
• Experience building and fostering a robust, collaborative, inclusive team environment
• High emotional intelligence and the ability to adapt your communication and operational style situationally
• Experience working directly with product and engineering on ambiguous problems and crafting big picture strategies
• Ability to establish credibility and rapport with senior leadership