Test and Evaluation Engineer

Senior Test and Evaluation Engineer

K ’s National Security Solutions team provides high‑end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

K  is seeking a Test and Evaluation Engineer to work with our team supporting the United States Space Force Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM) Test and Evaluation Squadrons (TES) at Schriever SFB in Colorado Springs, CO. An active TS/SCI security clearance with eligibility for Special Access Programs (SAP) is required. Applicants should have experience in acquisition lifecycle and multiple phases of the test and evaluation process.

Strong applicants will have experience with contractor or developmental testing, operational testing, and live‑fire testing, particularly testing of space systems, and familiarity with modeling and simulation (M&S) and hardware‑in‑the‑loop (HWIL) in a test campaign. Experience evaluating small subsystem test results and major system program results is highly desired. Familiarity with major DoD acquisition programs as part of the Space Force acquisition process is also required.

• Assist in the planning, coordination, and execution of space systems tests & experiments
• Design, develop, and execute advanced test/experimentation programs and processes to conduct assessment of space systems
• Apply optimal scientific and statistical tools such as design of experiments to increase test efficiency and produce actionable test results
• Create/review test engineering documentation to include test plans, Test Information Sheets, Safety Packages, Data Analysis Management Plans, Technical and Safety Review Board Briefs, Test Readiness Briefs, Test Cards, and Test/Analysis Reports as required
• Perform analysis on pre‑test predictions, including those obtained through M&S and HWIL, to design test events and profiles, define data collection requirements, and develop go/no‑go criteria to meet test objectives
• Work with programs to perform reviews of systems, sub‑systems, and components to ensure the data management and analysis plan (DMAP) provides proper data collection for real‑time and post‑mission data processing, evaluation, and analysis to meet test/experimentation objectives
• Set up data analysis requests, process data, perform data quality control review and anomaly resolution, and analyze data as per the data analysis plan
• Execute simulations to predict or evaluate system effectiveness or suitability under relevant operational conditions and scenarios
• Monitor the gathering of M&S data and guide test result evaluation to determine if system configurations and architecture meet customer specifications and performance expectations
• Create Test Reports/Presentations of complex data sets
• Create/enhance data analysis tools

• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Operations Research, Engineering, Math, Probability, Statistics, or Science
• 5+ years of demonstrated Systems &/or Test Engineering experience with space, ground, operations, and sustainment segments of DoD
• Understanding of test, evaluation and experimentation and the distinctions between developmental, operational, and integrated test
• Comfortable with methodologies including modeling and simulation, laboratory testing, open‑air testing, and live‑fire testing and supporting skills such as modeling and simulation, system decomposition, design of experiments and response surface methodologies, regression testing, and validation of models and simulations
• Team mentality to provide integrated engineering/analysis support for design reviews, test planning working groups, test card preparation, disciplined test execution, and collaborative authorship of post‑flight reports
• Willingness to accept changing and evolving roles & responsibilities in support of customer requirements and needs
• Aptitude and patience to process and analyze complex system test/experimentation data
• Technical expertise in one or more of the following areas:
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