Test and Evaluation Engineer

Acuity Innovations LLC is a small, defense contracting company that provides enterprise architecture, solution design, digital engineering, defensive cyberspace operations, system integration, and test and evaluation products and services that improve performance and decrease decision timelines. Our fundamental, repeatable service offering is bound in architecting, designing, securing, integrating, and verifying the operational readiness of data ecosystems.   

Do you want to be part of a unique, small business that differentiates itself by:

Delivering the best products, integrated systems, and mission capabilities for the warfighter

Building long-term relationships and treating its employees as family

Deploying small but powerful High-Performance Teams, like elite Special Forces teams to each task

Collaborating within and across the Acuity Innovations teams as well as with the customer

Providing a growth path to partnership/ownership opportunities

If you have this type of passion and desire to be part of a collaborative team environment with the innovation, initiative, and confidence to make things better, then Acuity Innovations may be the right place to realize your personal and professional goals. 

Package includes:

Competitive salary

3 weeks paid time off

11 Federal Holidays

Flexible Hours

Benefits 

Career Development/Mentorship Opportunities

Company Sponsored Social Events

We seek technical individuals who will succeed in a highly collaborative work environment.

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Position Description/Job Responsibilities:

Seeking a Test and Evaluation Engineer to work with our team to supporting the United States Space Force Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM) Test and Evaluation Squadrons (TES) at Schriever SFB in Colorado Springs, CO. An active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility is required.

Applicants should have experience in acquisition lifecycle and multiple phases of the test and evaluation process. Strong applicants will have experience with contractor or developmental testing, operational testing, and live-fire testing, particularly testing of space systems, and the role of modeling and simulation (M&S) and hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) in a test campaign. Experience in evaluating both small subsystems' test results and major system program results is highly desired. In addition, applicants should have familiarity with major DoD acquisition programs as part of the Space Force acquisition process. Successful applicants should be adept at breaking complex systems into functional elements and determining test objectives applicable to each. Test Engineers/Operations Analysts must have the ability to self-teach to stay current with the best T&E and M&S tools and techniques for evaluating capabilities. Additionally, they must understand the advantages and limitations of differing techniques for solving a particular problem.

Responsibilities:

Assist in the planning, coordination, and execution of space systems tests & experiments

Design, develop, and execute advanced test/experimentation programs and processes to conduct assessment of space systems

Apply optimal scientific and statistical tools such as design of experiments to increase test efficiency and produce actionable test results

Create/review test engineering documentation to include test plans, Test Information Sheets, Safety Packages, Data Analysis. Management Plans, Technical and Safety Review Board Briefs, Test Readiness Briefs, Test Cards, and Test/Analysis Reports as required

Perform analysis on pre-test predictions, including those obtained through M&S and HWIL, to design test events and profiles, define data collection requirements, and develop go/no-go criteria to meet test objectives

Work with programs to perform reviews of systems, sub-systems, and components to ensure the data management and analysis plan (DMAP) provides proper data collection for real-time and post-mission data processing, evaluation, and analysis to meet test/experimentation objectives

Set up data analysis requests, process data, perform data quality control review and anomaly resolution, and analyze data as per the data analysis plan

Execute simulations to predict or evaluate system effectiveness or suitability under relevant operational conditions and scenarios

Monitor the gathering of M&S data and guide test result evaluation to determine if system configurations and architecture meet customer specifications and performance expectations

Create Test Reports/Presentations of complex data sets

Create/enhance data analysis tools

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Operations Research, Engineering, Math, Probability, Statistics or Science

5+ years of demonstrated Systems &/or Test Engineering experience with space, ground, operations, and sustainment segments of DoD

An understanding of test, evaluation and experimentation and the distinctions between developmental, operational, and integrated test

Comfortable with methodologies including modeling and simulation, laboratory testing, open-air testing, and live-fire testing and supporting skills such as modeling and simulation, system decomposition, design of experiments and response surface methodologies, regression testing, and validation of models and simulations

Team mentality to provide integrated engineering/analysis support for design reviews, test planning working groups, test card prep, disciplined test execution, and collaborative authorship of post flight reports

Willingness to accept changing and evolving roles & responsibilities in support of customer requirements and needs

Aptitude and patience to process and analyze complex system test/experimentation data

Technical expertise in one or more of the following areas: Space-related data communications, EO/IR/RF Sensors, Spacecraft GNC, Space system Architectures, Space Battle Management and Control, Cyber

An active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility is required

Desired Qualifications:

Master’s Degree in Operations Research, Engineering, Math, Probability, Statistics or Science with 10+ years of demonstrated experience

Space Weapons officer (W13S/13S), with understanding of joint operations environment, and/or Offensive/Defensive space tactics &/OR graduate of specialized T&E training (e.g., USAFTPS Space Test Course)

DoD Acquisition Professional Development (ADPD) Test and Evaluation Level 3 certification

Experience within the DoD or as a Defense Contractor working in test and evaluation

Knowledge of orbital mechanics and astrodynamics

Space operations and/or orbital mechanics

Statistical techniques for approaching complex problems with large amounts of data

Application of operations research techniques and supporting skills such as database query languages, design of experiment and response surface methodologies, scripting language programming, and development of appropriate models and simulations

Work Location: Onsite at Schriever SFB, CO

Basic Compensation: 

The salary range for this position is approximately $125,000 -$140,000 based on knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience