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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Assembly, Integration & Test (AI&T) IPT Lead - **Company:** THE JUDGE GROUP, INC. - **Location:** Louisville, CO, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $210,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Configuration Management, Firmware, Verification and Validation (Software), Subsystems, System Testing, Systems Integration, Test Data, Visual Systems, Build Management, Performance Monitor, Lidar - **Published:** September 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/2e8638fb-4938-4457-b7d6-c4080a36a6db ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience. * 8+ years of experience supporting assembly, integration, testing, verification, production test, or systems testing of complex hardware systems. * Aerospace hardware experience is required, including integration, environmental testing, verification, and delivery of flight, flight-relevant, or other high-reliability systems. * Proven experience leading multidisciplinary teams through hardware build, integration, checkout, anomaly resolution, and delivery. * Experience authoring or approving integration procedures, test procedures, travelers, verification reports, readiness review packages, and acceptance documentation. * Hands-on experience with environmental and system verification activities, including thermal vacuum testing, vibration testing, optical alignment, electrical functional testing, and interface verification. * Strong understanding of configuration management, quality systems, hardware handling procedures, safety requirements, and nonconformance processes. * Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly present program status, risks, blockers, and recovery plans to both technical and executive stakeholders., * Experience supporting fast-paced, schedule-driven programs where delivery timelines are critical. * Background working with complex hardware and integrated hardware/software/firmware systems requiring high reliability and performance. * Experience with optical systems, lasers, LIDAR, ultra-high vacuum (UHV) environments, high-voltage systems, embedded electronics, precision electromechanical assemblies, or advanced physics-based technologies. * Experience leading Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), Acceptance Test Procedures (ATPs), environmental qualification campaigns, customer witness testing, and formal delivery activities. * Experience developing or managing Ground Support Equipment (GSE), Mechanical Ground Support Equipment (MGSE), Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE), or Optical Ground Support Equipment (OGSE). * Familiarity with Earned Value Management (EVM), Control Account Management (CAM), Integrated Master Schedules (IMS), and cost/schedule performance reporting. Ideal Background Candidates with experience from organizations involved in aerospace, defense, space systems, advanced sensors, optics/photonics, flight hardware, satellites, launch systems, or other high-reliability engineering environments are strongly encouraged to apply. ## Description We are seeking an experienced Assembly, Integration & Test (AI&T) IPT Lead to drive the integration, verification, and delivery of advanced aerospace hardware systems. This individual will own the end-to-end integration process that transforms components and subsystems into fully tested, customer-ready hardware configurations. The ideal candidate has a strong background leading complex, high-reliability hardware programs through assembly, system integration, environmental testing, anomaly resolution, and final delivery. This role requires both technical leadership and hands-on execution in a fast-paced development and production environment., * Own subsystem and full system builds, spanning early prototypes through repeatable and scalable production hardware. * Serve as the hands-on AI&T lead, overseeing integration planning, build execution, readiness reviews, testing, anomaly resolution, and delivery coordination. * Establish and lead multidisciplinary integration and test teams including project, manufacturing, systems, quality, and test engineering personnel. * Collaborate closely with engineering, scientific, and technical teams to define manufacturing methods, test procedures, validation approaches, and quality requirements. * Develop and manage AI&T plans, integration sequences, subsystem handoff criteria, facility requirements, and test readiness activities from planning through final delivery. * Coordinate daily execution across systems engineering, quality, procurement, program management, and subsystem teams. * Create and maintain integration procedures, test procedures, travelers, configuration records, verification reports, test data packages, and customer acceptance documentation. * Plan and execute functional, interface, environmental, optical, vacuum, electrical, and system-level verification testing. * Lead test readiness reviews, anomaly investigations, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and recovery planning. * Ensure AI&T activities comply with safety requirements involving lasers, high voltage systems, vacuum environments, ESD controls, cleanliness standards, and facility constraints. * Drive facility, instrumentation, shipping, handling, and operational readiness efforts. * Monitor schedules, risks, resource requirements, open issues, and program performance impacts while providing status updates to leadership. ## Related Videos - [AI as a Test Designer: Transforming Experience into Automated Testing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1984-ai-as-a-test-designer-transforming-experience-into-automated-testing) - [How to develop an autonomous car end-to-end: Robotic Drive and the mobility revolution](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/22-how-to-develop-an-autonomous-car-end-to-end-robotic-drive-and-the-mobility-revolution) - [Playing Pong on a shoulder press machine](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100140-playing-pong-on-a-shoulder-press-machine) - [Dirty Tests And How To Clean Them](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/515-dirty-tests-and-how-to-clean-them) - [Remote Driving on Plant Grounds with State-of-the-Art Cloud Technologies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/251-remote-driving-on-plant-grounds-with-state-of-the-art-cloud-technologies) - [Hiring AI Native Talents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100268-hiring-ai-native-talents) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Best US AI Conferences for CTOs in 2026: Build vs. Buy, Vendor Evaluation, and Peer Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/736-best-us-ai-conferences-for-ctos-in-2026-build-vs-buy-vendor-evaluation-and-peer-intelligence) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [The 8 Best Code Testing Tools](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/402-the-8-best-code-testing-tools) - [A Guide to Green Tech and Green IT Careers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/374-a-guide-to-green-tech-and-green-it-careers) - [Trustworthy AI Starts at Deployment: 5 Checks Before You Ship](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/753-trustworthy-ai-starts-at-deployment-5-checks-before-you-ship)