Integration and Test Systems Engineer L4

We have an outstanding Contract position for anIntegration Test Engineerto join a leading Company located in the Palm Bay, FLsurrounding area.

US Citizenship is required.

Candidate must possess an active Top Secret Clearance

We are seeking anIntegration Test Engineer L4to provide technical leadership, operational oversight, and hands‑on execution to ensure payload hardware is thoroughly validated. The engineer will manage a small team of engineers and technicians while also actively engaging in test activities to maintain schedule fidelity and support high‑priority operations. Close collaboration with cross‑functional engineering, manufacturing, and program leadership is essential to deliver high-quality mission hardware on schedule.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead planning and execution of payload‑level test operations, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and thoroughness across multiple products.

• Develop and maintain test strategies, documentation, and workflows that support verification and validation of complex payload hardware.

• Direct daily activities for a small team of engineers and technicians, coordinating assignments, resolving obstacles, and maintaining alignment with program needs.

• Guide test readiness preparations, test sequencing, and execution across environmental, functional, and system‑level campaigns while ensuring proper configuration control.

• Collaborate with engineering disciplines to resolve issues affecting test performance, schedule, or data integrity.

• Serve as the central interface to leadership and customers for payload test status, technical discussions, risks, and mitigation planning.

• Monitor progress, resource usage, and milestones across test operations, providing clear status reporting and contributing to programmatic decision‑making.

• Support proposal and pursuit activities by contributing technical inputs such as test approaches and Basis of Estimate (BOE) data.

• Participate in on‑site testing at internal facilities or partner locations, with travel required up to 10-20%.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Familiarity with Earned Value Management processes and variance reporting.

• Experience leading integration and test activities for space payloads, spacecraft buses, or other complex aerospace systems.

• Background in developing or executing verification and validation plans for hardware involving environmental testing, functional testing, or space‑qualification processes.

• Knowledge of electrical, mechanical, and software subsystems commonly used in space hardware and how they interact during integration.

• Ability to interpret system‑level requirements and translate them into actionable integration and test strategies.

• Experience establishing and managing test facilities, ground support equipment, or specialized test assets used for space payload or vehicle integration.

• Strong capability in root‑cause analysis and leading resolution of issues discovered during integration or test execution.

• Familiarity with automation and scripting languages (e.g. LabVIEW, Python, Perl, Ruby, PuTTy, MobaXTerm, Visual Studio code).

• Experience with RF measurements and testing, tools, and test equipment (Spectrum Analyzers, Network Analyzers, Logic Analyzers, Signal Generators, O-Scopes, and RF Test Equipment).

Must haves (Hard Skills):

• Leadership experience.

• Strong EVM

• Extensive background in RF.

• Familiar with stress testing and RF test equipment.

• Previous test role preferred.

• Open to candidates with strong systems background or electronic design experience at the hardware layer.

Military connected talent encouraged to apply.

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• The California Fair Chance Act

• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance