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# Integration and Test Systems Engineer L4

- **Company:** TAD PGS, Inc.
- **Location:** Palm Bay, FL, United States
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Network Analysis, Configuration Management, Data Integrity, Perl (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), LabVIEW, Microsoft Visual Studio, PuTTY, Ruby, Verification and Validation (Software), Test Execution Engine
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9198681/integration-and-test-systems-engineer-l4

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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%.