Lead, Flight Test Field Engineer

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Job Title:
Lead, Flight Test Field Engineer

Job Code: 46466

Job Location:
Ashburn, VA – On Site

Job Schedule: 9/80 - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

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Harris Agile Development Group (ADG) is seeking a Lead Field Engineer to join our Flight Test and Evaluation (T&E) team supporting our family of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and Launched Effects (LE) capabilities. The portfolio includes deployable mission effects that can support precision kinetic strike and electronic warfare. The Lead UAS Field Engineer is the senior technical field representative for developmental flight testing, end‑user integration, and training.

Operating across lab and field environments, this role leads the technical execution of complex test and fielding activities and serves as a primary interface among engineering teams, customers, end‑users, and test‑range personnel to ensure mission success.

This is a mission‑focused, highly technical position requiring comprehensive UAS systems knowledge, sound engineering judgment, and strong organizational, communication, and problem‑solving skills. The role provides technical leadership for event planning, system integration and readiness, complex troubleshooting, maintenance strategy, training, and customer support. The Lead UAS Field Engineer works with minimal oversight against established objectives; resolves ambiguous system‑level issues; leads cross‑functional initiatives of substantial importance;

and drives improvements to field‑engineering practices, systems, and processes.

• Lead the technical planning, integration, execution, and post‑event assessment of developmental UAS flight test, launched‑effects integration, and field deployment activities.
• Serve as the primary technical field liaison among engineering teams, customers, end‑users, test‑range personnel, and other external stakeholders; communicate system status, risks, technical decisions, and recommended courses of action.
• Lead cross‑functional resolution of complex UAS and launched‑effects system, subsystem, software, firmware, ground‑control, communications, and test‑support issues; conduct root‑cause investigations and drive corrective actions with engineering teams.
• Define and manage field‑engineering readiness plans, technical objectives, acceptance criteria, configuration baselines, and deployment risks for assigned programs and test events.
• Oversee system assembly, inspection, setup, configuration, preflight checkout, maintenance, and readiness activities; provide hands‑on technical support as required for safe and successful operations.
• Lead the setup, integration, operation, and troubleshooting of ground control stations, antenna systems, telemetry links, and test‑support equipment, including software and firmware updates and configuration management.
• Evaluate operational and test data, identify system performance trends, and provide technically sound recommendations that influence…