General Dynamics

Systems Integration and Test Engineer

General Dynamics$132K — $139K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, or Mathematics with 8 years of experience, or a Master's degree with 6 years of experience.
  • Active DoD Secret security clearance required at hire, U.S. citizenship mandatory.
  • Hands-on experience with complex hardware/software systems and I&T processes.
  • Proficient in Python scripting for automation and data analysis.
  • Experience in Agile environments and tools like Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the entire integration and testing lifecycle for System-of-Systems capabilities.
  • Integrate and resolve issues across diverse subsystems like autonomy and RF communications.
  • Develop and verify operational use case scenarios with formal requirement traceability.
  • Author detailed test plans and procedures with clear criteria for success.
  • Conduct field tests, lead execution, and troubleshoot anomalies at component levels.
  • Create and optimize test automation frameworks and data acquisition systems.
  • Maintain comprehensive documentation and support technical reviews, ensuring readiness for audits.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance options.
  • Retirement savings plan with company match.
  • Paid time off and holiday scheduling.
  • Opportunities for professional development and training.
  • Relocation assistance available if applicable.
Full Job Description
Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or a related Science or Mathematics field, plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience; or Master's degree, plus a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience.

 

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS:Department of Defense Secret security clearance required at time of hire. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.

Responsibilities for this Position

Required Qualifications

  • Demonstrated I&T experience on complex hardware/software systems— support of test plan authorship, execution, anomaly resolution, and formal reporting.
  • Hands-on System-of-Systems integration experience resolving interface, timing, and interoperability issues across dissimilar subsystems.
  • Multi-disciplinary integration experience spanning autonomy, RF communications, UGVs, small UAS, electronic warfare, munitions, and fuzes.
  • Experience with bench and field instrumentation: oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and data acquisition systems.
  • Python scripting for test automation and data reduction.
  • Experience with use-case-driven or mission-thread-based V&V campaigns with formal requirements traceability.
  • Experience in an Agile environment with Jira and Confluence.
  • Ability to support authoring clear, audit-ready technical documentation for engineering and government customer audiences.
  • Active DoD Secret security clearance; U.S. citizenship required.
  • Willingness to travel up to 25% to customer and contractor test ranges (event-driven, typically 1-2 weeks at a time).

Preferred Qualifications

  • Defense/aerospace experience with military standards (MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-1316, MIL-STD-882E, MIL-STD-2105).
  • RF/communications test experience: waveforms, link testing, tactical/mesh networks, GPS-denied/contested-spectrum operations.
  • Electronic warfare test experience: signal collection, jamming/countermeasure characterization, range testing.
  • Autonomy, UGV, and small UAS integration and test—perception, navigation, C2, and human-machine teaming.
  • Munitions and fuzing experience: setback survivability, safe-and-arm, warhead/effects characterization, lethality testing.
  • Environmental and qualification test experience (vibration, shock, thermal, EMI/EMC).
  • Test automation framework experience (LabVIEW, TestStand, or equivalent).
  • Linux test environments and CI/CD for embedded software test.
  • MBSE and digital-engineering traceability tools; experience with VCRMs or VVPs for DoD milestone reviews.
  • Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to develop I&T artifacts and capabilities.
  • Active DoD Top Secret clearance.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • I&T Lifecycle Ownership: Support the full test and integration lifecycle—plan, integrate, execute, resolve anomalies, and report—for multi-subsystem System-of-Systems capabilities.
  • SoS Integration: Support the integration and test strategy; support integration of dissimilar subsystems (autonomy, RF/comms, UGV, sUAS, EW, munitions, and fuzing) into a cohesive, demonstrable capability; resolve cross-subsystem interface, timing, and interoperability issues.
  • Use-Case & V&V: Support operational use cases and mission threads; develop verification scenarios that exercise end-to-end system behavior against ConOps with formal traceability from requirements through test evidence.
  • Test Planning: Support authoring of test plans and procedures across the full test taxonomy—integration, functional, scenario, environmental, acceptance, regression, and qualification—with defined pass/fail criteria.
  • Field Execution & Anomaly Resolution: Plan and instrument bench and field tests, lead range execution, and resolve test anomalies to the component level across electronic, mechanical, RF, and software assemblies.
  • Test Automation: Define and stand up test automation and data acquisition; script data reduction and post-test analysis (Python); develop automated test sequences where applicable.
  • Documentation & Configuration Control: Support authoring and maintain integration guides, ICDs, test procedures, lessons-learned registers, and as-tested configuration baselines; ensure documentation is audit-ready for government milestone reviews.
  • Leadership & Reporting: Support test activities across a cross-functional, multi-vendor team in an Agile workflow. Present test readiness reviews, test reports, and validation evidence to program leadership and government customers.

 

Tools & Environment

  • Python, CAMEO (requirements traceability), Confluence, MATLAB/Simulink, Git, Jira, LabVIEW/TestStand.

Workplace Options:This position is fully onsite, you will be a part of the Ft Wayne, Indiana team. 

 

 

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Salary NoteThis estimate represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors (geographic location, etc.). Actual pay may vary. This job posting will remain open until the position is filled. Combined Salary RangeUSD $132,679.00 - USD $139,935.00 /Yr.

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103,100 employees
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$67.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
$3.1 billion
Founded
1952
5 Year Trend
+4.7%
Revenue
$37.9 billion
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