Automated Test Equipment Systems Engineer, Journeyman

KAIROS, Inc is searching for an energetic, experienced, and highly motivated Automated Test Equipment Systems Engineer, Journeyman, to join our team. This position will be onsite in Pax River, MD.

Established in July 2013, KAIROS, Inc. is a growing Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) specializing in Life Cycle Program Management, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Logistics and Sustainment, Enterprise Platforms and AI, and Additive Manufacturing services focused on optimizing customers’ program performance and mission through proven methodologies and ethical practices. Our headquarters is in California, MD near Naval Air Station Patuxent River. We offer competitive salaries and benefits with outstanding growth potential.

This position will perform technical and engineering support to the Common Aviation Support Equipment Program Office (PMA-260) at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Lexington Park, MD. PMA-260 is responsible for the procurement, development and fielding of Common Ground Support equipment and Automatic Test Equipment. The team delivers this equipment to enhance the maintenance capability of Sailors and Marines tasked to operate, repair and service naval aircraft and airborne weapons systems fleet wide.

• Performs as the avionics support equipment systems engineer, including ATS Systems Engineer, integrating various engineering disciplines and technical efforts.
• Formulates solutions and analyzes support equipment for the commodity while stressing reliability, maintainability, safety, quality, operational readiness, and performance.
• Provides and disseminates specialized technical expertise on support equipment.
• Applies extensive background and knowledge of support equipment development, Naval Aviation Maintenance Policy, and systems engineering principles.
• Responsible for all systems engineering aspects, including requirements development, technical planning, and coordination of major programs and projects in avionics commodity support equipment development.
• Anticipate technical issues that could lead to serious safety, performance or reliability problems and take appropriate action.
• Recommends project adjustments or redirection as deemed necessary to achieve a satisfactory end result.
• Resolves risky, out of the ordinary, difficult and controversial equipment and operational problems where guidance is lacking, and minimal information is available.
• Serve as a systems engineer on unique and specialized assignments requiring innovation/deviation from standard engineering practices in developing new techniques/solutions or changes to existing/proven systems engineering concepts and technical practices. As a result, develop methods and procedures for use by NAVAIR.
• Translation of an operational need into a configured system through a systematic, concurrent approach.
• Integration of technical inputs of the matrix and technical disciplines into support equipment design.
• Ensuring the compatibility of all functional and physical support interfaces (internal and external) and ensuring that definition and design reflect the requirements of all system elements, hardware, software facilities, people and data.
• Application of technology opportunities.
• The candidate is tasked in conjunction with the NAVAIR quality management system by actively participating in the continuous improvement of all forms of work.
• Participates in teams that search for, identify, and eliminate waste (the difference between the way things are now, and the way they could be or should be if everything were perfect) from all work/business processes.
• Solves problems effectively by using objective data to generate conclusions. Identifies customers, both internal and external, and meets their needs.
• Functions as ATS Systems Engineer and is responsible for influencing the design of the avionics commodity system to minimize the requirement for maintenance and related SE.
• Ensure that supportability, integrated diagnostics, and testability are incorporated into avionics system designs.
• Determines cost effectiveness of greater fault detection/isolation and lower false alarm rates, power on continuous and initiated BIT/BITE required to achieve…