Integration and Test Systems Engineer L4

We are seeking an Integration Test Engineer L4 to 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., * 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%.

• 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.