Senior Test Engineer Associate

Job Title Senior Test Engineer Associate

Functional Title Data Link and Communication Engineer

Contract position State Location Hanscom Air Force - MA US (Primary)

Education Bachelor's Level Degree

Job Type Full-time

Job Description

Quantech has an immediate opening for a Data Link and Communication Engineer supporting the C3I&N Directorate located at Hanscom AFB, MA. Specific duties include but are not limited to the following: The Candidate shall provide engineering expertise in the development, integration, testing, and deployment of Air Force weapon systems and their associated tactical data links, defining data link interoperability, interface definitions, and test assessment requirements. The Candidate shall interface across DoD, USAF, US Army, Joint communities, and inter-agency partners to ensure data link communication capabilities comply with FAA, DISA, NSA, Service Acquisition Executive, and Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS) rules and technical standards. The Candidate shall plan and support Developmental and Operational Test and Evaluation (DT&E/OT&E) at the system and subsystem levels, interfacing with Air Combat Command, AFC2IC, JITC, NAVWAR, and organizational levels managing C3 and encryption key distribution infrastructure. The Candidate shall provide technical advisory support on C4 issues, including pre-launch conditioning and planning, aircraft-weapon pre- and post-release communications, real-time targeting, and cryptographic/COMSEC data distribution between sources, weapons, and controllers. The Candidate shall advise and assist Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), Program Managers (PMs), staff engineers, and joint combined test teams on performance, schedule, and cost impacts related to communications, planning, and control architectures. The Candidate shall apply expertise in Tactical Platform Open Mission Systems (OMS) architectures, hardware/software processing environments, and contribute to CCWG/OCS and Government Reference Architectures. The Candidate shall support enterprise communications initiatives (e.g., DARPA DyNAMO, Combat Cloud) and Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) waveforms (AEHF, WGS,... For full info follow application link.

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