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Leidos · 12 hours ago

Avionics Test Engineer - Hypersonics

Huntsville, AL

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$87K/yr - $157K/yr

4+ years exp

Leidos is a leading provider of innovative solutions in the defense, space, cyber, and commercial fields. They are seeking an Avionics Test Engineer to support the Thermal Protection System of the Common Hypersonic Glide Body program, focusing on developing test systems and ensuring compliance with mission requirements.

ComputerGovernmentInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyNational SecuritySoftware

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Perform test engineering activities to develop and maintain test systems for the avionics Leidos makes ensuring test systems exist to facilitate test development, verification, and production

Implement DevSecOps and test-like-you-fly automated test methodology to ensure testing is flight like to ensure products meet the mission requirements

Assist in planning, estimation, and scheduling of test development and execution

Participate in program management and engineering review boards

Participate in customer and supplier technical interchange discussions

Work with system engineering to ensure all requirements are captured from stakeholders (including but not limited to the customer, our flight hardware and software design teams, our manufacturing teams, and our management) and that all test systems are developed to meet those requirements and delivered on schedule with digital engineering in mind ensuring results trace back to requirements and tasks, status, data, measurements, etc. are easily accessible in our cloud tools

Qualification

Avionics Test EngineeringTest System DesignDigital EngineeringDevSecOpsTest AutomationAgile DevelopmentHardware-in-the-loop TestingSoftware-in-the-loop TestingProgramming PythonProgramming CProgramming C++CAD Tools SolidWorksCAD Tools AutoCADMechanical DrawingsElectronics Design ExperienceBasic Understanding of StatisticsCommunication Skills

Required

A Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical, Computer Science, Mechanical, Engineering or closely related field paired with experience in electronic and/or software design

A minimum of 4 years of related product engineering design and/or test system design experience with complex electrical, mechanical, optical systems

Familiarity with Digital Engineering, DevSecOps, Test Automation, and CI/CD

Experience with hardware-in-the-loop test and software-in-the-loop system development

Experience with Agile development techniques

Working knowledge of statistics (process capability, confidence levels, mean time between failure, etc.)

Experienced in test development with experience in requirements capture, test system design, build, and checkout, test software development, and validation

Understanding of development, qualification, and assembly processes for aerospace product

Ability to work full-time, on-site at our Huntsville, AL facility

Strong communication skills both verbal and written

Demonstrates effective communication skills to engage technically with electrical, software, mechanical, and manufacturing engineering teams

Familiarity with business systems used for tracking parts, bills of materials, and part planning

Basic understanding of standard product development processes including review and release

Ability to understand electronic schematics and software (C, C++, VHDL, Java, python, SQL)

Ability to design systems in various CAD tools (like Mentor Graphics, Altium, Visio, DrawIO and Gliffy)

Electronics design experience from schematic capture, board layout, fab and assembly

Ability to understand mechanical drawings and work in various CAD tools (Solid Works, AutoCAD, etc.)

Strong computer skills with Office products (Word, Excel, Power Point)

Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain secret clearance

Preferred

Master's degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, mechanical, engineering, or other closely related field paired with experience in electronic and/or software design

5+ years of test engineering experience on aerospace vehicle avionics or integrated systems

5+ years in test system development for medium to high volume production

Experience with RF calibration, alignment, and acceptance testing

Strong experience with digital engineering techniques (requirements tracking, data capturing, digital tasking/scheduling, CI/CD, and tool connectivity) and tools (such as Cameo, Influx, SQL Server, JIRA, Confluence, git/GitLab)

Solid digital electronics understanding with embedded system design/test experience

Familiarity with multi-threaded software development and test (Windows/Linux PC)

Strong programming skills (Python, Matlab, C, C++, LabVIEW, TestStand, VHDL)

Digital electronics design experience (familiar with 8-bit thru 32-bit processor development) and CAD work (Mentor Graphics, Altium)

Experience with aerospace acceptance test and qualification process

Experience with HALT/HASS

Experience with Department of Defense, Military, Government, or Commercial aerospace-related programs

Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain top-secret clearance