Senior ESS Program Systems T&E Engineer

Acuity Innovations•Colorado Springs, CO

7d•$140,000 - $180,000•Onsite

About The Position

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. You will join a systems engineering team defining the next generation of space communication systems supporting US Space Force (USSF) satellite communications for the USSF Space Systems Center (SSC). You will support Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) activities in a multidisciplinary and collaborative environment. You will interface and collaborate with SE&I team members, contractors, government civilians and members of the USSF. You will lead and support several working groups responsible for leading technical discussion, resolve and identify risk, requirement gaps, developing briefings, writing, and tracking action items, and authoring meeting minutes. We support the Space Force’s satellite communications systems, providing global secure, survivable, and protected communications for our nation’s warfighters. We seek technical individuals who will succeed in a highly collaborative work environment.

Requirements

Ability to obtain DoD Secret clearance
BS degree in one of the following technical disciplines: engineering, physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science
15+ years demonstrated experience in multi-faceted tests and test project teams, to include oversight of scheduling
7+ years test and evaluation experience with DoD/USAF test processes and documentation
10+ years’ experience in systems engineering
3+ years’ experience in space systems, which may be the space, ground, or terminal segments
Experience working with military or DoD civilian clients
Strong interpersonal skills, communication (oral and written), and presentation skills
Proficient in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

Nice To Haves

MS degree in one of the following technical disciplines: engineering, physics, computer science
3+ years’ experience with ground systems, such as terminals and networks
3+ years’ experience with military space systems, MILSATCOM, commercial SATCOM, or network engineering
3+ years’ experience in writing Test and Evaluation Master Plans (TEMPs) for space systems
Systems engineering certifications, such as CSEP, ESEP, OCSMP

Responsibilities

Develop T&E strategy, Test and Evaluation Master Plan, requirement verification and test plans, test objectives, test methodology, and evaluation criteria
Collect, review, analyze, and report T&E data
Support implementation of common Test and Evaluation database for the program
Support T&E reviews, audits, Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), Deficiency Review Boards (DRBs), Materiel Improvement Process Review Boards (MIPRBs), and Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs)
Procure test equipment and develop test plans to test out candidate software/hardware changes and technology concepts to determine the feasibility of integration
Provide Government leads with accurate, objective, and impartial verification of the compliance status of systems, subsystems, and applications
Provide support to ensure effective capacity planning and reporting to enable the prioritization of testing tasks and focus testing resources on critical priorities
Conduct technical review boards and root cause analysis in government settings. Experience with these processes demonstrates an understanding of quality control, strategic alignment, and complex problem-solving
Implement Test tools and DevOps for testing analysis
Develop system-of-systems verification plans and trace verification plans to test events
Develop system integration plans for end-to-end system capability
Collect, analyze, and report on data collected during system-of-systems integration events
Ability to develop and improve procedures and processes and draft internal operating procedures