Hardware Test Engineer - SME

Overview

Join Peraton's mission-critical team supporting secure, real-time data delivery across complex operational environments in direct support of our nation's warfighters. If you are driven by national security and energized by cutting-edge C2

ISR capabilities, sensor integration, and resilient data transport solutions, we invite you to join our team. We are seeking highly cleared professionals who excel at the intersection of advanced communications infrastructure, distributed systems, and mission assurance—where reliability, security, and performance are paramount. Specifically, we are looking for a TS/SCI cleared Hardware Test Engineer - SME to support this mission at Pope Army Airfield, NC.

We areseekinghighly cleared professionals who excel at the intersection of advanced communications infrastructure, distributed systems, and mission assurance—where reliability, security, and performance are paramount.

• Provides technical and management leadership for all hardware testing initiatives within system T&E support, establishing overarching goals and strategic plans for leveraging advanced testing to achieve robust technical validation and mission readiness for C2
  
  ISR systems.
• Directs and controls the strategic design, development, and implementation of hardware T&E systems that define system design activities, architectural analysis, design validation, and operational requirements verification across all C2
  
  ISR technological systems.
• Possesses expert domain and technical knowledge in hardware test engineering, system T&E, and C2
  
  ISR platforms (avionics, airborne, shipboard, land-based), applying this to define and drive the technical roadmap for providing system T&E insights that enable continuous technological optimization and mission readiness.
• Has overall responsibility for establishing and implementing innovative hardware testing approaches that provide comprehensive system performance assessment across diverse technological environments and support direct involvement with non-deadly components weapons systems.
• Engages in high-level client negotiations and interfaces with senior management regarding the strategic vision, capabilities, and resource allocation for advanced hardware T&E solutions for C2
  
  ISR systems.
• Utilizes expert domain knowledge and decision-making that has a critical impact on the overall project implementation, ensuring testing of system constraints, software characteristics, and performance capabilities achieves optimal mission readiness.
• Directs and controls the methods and staffing for hardware test engineering teams, ensuring delivery of high-impact, scalable, and resilient test solutions that optimize C2
  
  ISR system quality and reliability across all platforms.
• Provides authoritative guidance on leveraging hardware T&E to shape C2
  
  ISR system design, development, and deployment practices, influencing overall system architecture and operational deployment.
• Establishes and governs the architectural principles, tools, and platforms for all hardware T&E efforts, critically impacting the reliability, performance, and operational effectiveness of C2
  
  ISR technological systems.
• Shapes the future direction of system T&E for the TO by pioneering new hardware testing techniques, research, and advanced validation capabilities, directly impacting mission success.
• Utilizes the following TO Management & Financial Tracking Tools:
  Microsoft Power Platform; G Invoicing API; ASSIST portal integration; variance analysis dashboards; MS Project;
  Primavera; GFP management modules; WBS tracking systems;
  Service Now;
  Jira Service Desk; automated RIP/CTP/TAR workflows;
  SharePoint libraries;
  Confluence;
  Microsoft Search; lessons learned databases; video library repositories; eMass, Archer GRC; internal audit portals;
  Excel/SharePoint audit templates; CMDB with version control;
  Power BI with R/Python integration;
  Tableau; predictive analytics engines;
  Teams;
  Azure AD role based access; mobile access via Power Apps.
• Utilize the following Role Specific Tools:
  Systems Integration Lab environments replicating RGEP baselines; tri-domain lab tools for IL4/IL5/IL6 enclaves with routing/VRF and…