Sentinel - Horizontal Integration and Test Liaison Systems Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

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The Horizontal Integration and Test Liaison will support system verification, test planning, and operations for the integration of the AVE. Responsibilities include collaborating with a team of System Integration & Test (I&T) engineers, risk managers, and project managers through the product life cycle, from initial requirement analysis for testability to designing and developing test plans and workflows.

The Horizontal Integration and Test Liaison will work closely with internal element teams, including integration and test engineering, systems engineering, software engineering, mission, payload, quality, risk, and operations. This role will support integration, test and operation efforts throughout the AVE product life cycle.

The Horizontal Integration and Test Liaison will help define complex test strategies to verify mission capabilities while working with a team composed of multiple internal organizations for the full integration and testing of the AVE system. They will be responsible for identifying enabling strategies to manage test implementation and execution from a systems engineering perspective and to ensure the tests executed, at all levels of integrations, support verification and provide the necessary data to prove compliance with the hardware to the requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) with 12 years of experience; or master's degree with 10 years of experience; or PhD with 8 years of experience
• Must be a US Citizen with an active DoD Secret Clearance, at time of application, current and within scope, with an investigation date within the last 6 years.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period, as determined by the company to meet its business needs.
• 5 years of experience as an independent contributor, able to determine scope of work without a set of discrete deliverables
• 3 years of demonstrated experience leading cross organizational collaboration
• 3 years of back-end systems engineering experience (verification planning, execution, and system sell-off) and/or experience in test planning and execution
• 3 years of experience on the verification/test/integration of large complex systems
• 3 years of experience with DOORS and/or MBSE software such as CAMEO and Magic Draw
• 3 years of experience with risk and opportunity development and management within a commercial or aerospace program environment

• Experience working on aerospace/defense systems (space payloads, spacecraft bus, ground systems, environmental testing)
• Experience…