Radiance Technologies

Test & Evaluation Analytics SME

Radiance Technologies$100K — $130K *
Aerospace & Defense
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • U.S. Citizenship with ability to obtain security clearance.
  • 15+ years of relevant experience in test and evaluation, data analytics, or military systems.
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related STEM field.
  • Experience with data analysis from defense or military test events.
  • Proficiency in Python, C#, C++, MATLAB, SQL, or similar technical languages.

Responsibilities

  • Lead data collection, cataloging, analysis, and interpretation from test events.
  • Act as a senior analytics and test event SME for military customers.
  • Develop test data analysis strategies and reporting approaches.
  • Generate technical reports and executive-level recommendations based on data results.
  • Support live test events with real-time analysis tools and troubleshooting.
  • Mentor junior analysts in data analysis and customer communication.
  • Travel up to 25% for test events and technical support.

Benefits

  • Professional development opportunities.
  • Supportive team environment.
  • Dynamic and fast-paced work setting.
  • Potential for significant impact on military systems.
  • Opportunity to work with senior military stakeholders.
Full Job Description

Job Responsibilities

  • Lead the collection, cataloging, reduction, analysis, and interpretation of data from developmental, operational, and special test events.
  • Serve as a senior analytics and test event SME for Government and military customers.
  • Develop test data analysis strategies, data analysis plans, scoring methodologies, and reporting approaches.
  • Generate technical reports, briefings, data products, and executive-level recommendations based on test event results.
  • Support live test events by operating, troubleshooting, and interpreting real-time display, visualization, and analysis tools.
  • Develop, modify, and maintain software tools to improve data processing, analysis automation, visualization, and reporting.
  • Provide on-site technical support at test ranges, laboratories, and customer locations.
  • Conduct root cause analysis, anomaly investigation, performance assessment, and post-test technical evaluation.
  • Support test planning activities, including test design, data requirements definition, instrumentation planning, and analysis workflow development.
  • Coordinate with engineers, test directors, data analysts, software developers, range personnel, and Government stakeholders.
  • Mentor junior analysts and engineers in test data analysis, technical reporting, and customer communication.
  • Communicate complex technical findings to senior technical, programmatic, and military leadership.
  • Adapt analytical approaches to dynamic customer requirements, evolving test objectives, and changing operational conditions.
  • Travel up to 25% for test events, technical meetings, and customer support activities.

Required Experience and Skills

  • U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
  • Minimum of 15 years of relevant experience in test and evaluation, data analytics, engineering analysis, military systems, or related technical fields.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Data Science, or another relevant STEM field.
  • Demonstrated experience analyzing data from defense, aerospace, aviation, range, training, or military test events.
  • Experience developing analysis tools or scripts using Python, C#, C++, MATLAB, SQL, or similar technical languages.
  • Strong understanding of test data collection, reduction, scoring, visualization, and reporting.
  • Ability to support live test events in fast-paced, field, range, or laboratory environments.
  • Ability to convert complex technical data into clear findings, recommendations, and decision-quality products.
  • Strong analytical, inference, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to work independently while coordinating across multi-disciplinary technical teams.
  • Ability to brief technical findings to Government customers, program leadership, and senior stakeholders.
  • Ability to travel for extended-duration test events as assigned.

Desired Experience and Skills

  • 20+ years of experience supporting DoD test and evaluation, aviation systems, missile defense, aircraft survivability, electronic warfare, countermeasure systems, directed energy, radar, or sensor-based systems.
  • Experience leading data analysis efforts for developmental test, operational test, flight test, range test, hardware-in-the-loop, software-in-the-loop, or modeling and simulation events.
  • Experience supporting Army, Navy, Air Force, MDA, DOT&E, ATEC, TRMC, or other DoD test organizations.
  • Experience with Python, C#, C++, SQL, MATLAB, R, Bash, or Linux-based analysis environments.
  • Experience with visualization, simulation, or test integration tools such as SIMDIS, TENA, telemetry tools, or range data systems.
  • Experience with source management repositories such as Git, GitLab, GitHub, Apache Subversion, BitBucket, or similar.
  • Experience developing software or analysis tools for Linux platforms.
  • Basic understanding of networking, distributed test architectures, instrumentation, telemetry, and data management.
  • Experience with video processing, sensor data, telemetry data, flight test data, or time-correlated multi-source data.
  • Experience with Design of Experiments, statistical analysis, data quality assessment, and performance evaluation.
  • Experience with cloud-based analytics environments, AWS, Azure, AI/ML-enabled workflows, or automated data processing pipelines.
  • Experience preparing technical briefings, test reports, data analysis plans, and customer-facing decision support products.
  • Active security clearance preferred.

About Radiance Technologies

Radiance Technologies is a defense contractor that provides systems engineering, technology development, and operational support services to the Department of Defense, intelligence community, and other government agencies. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama. Radiance Technologies has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States by Inc. Magazine and has received numerous awards for its work in the defense industry.
Learn more about Radiance Technologies
Size
1,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1999
5 Year Trend
+20%
Revenue
$300 million

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