Systems Integration and Test Engineer

Systems Integration and Test Engineer Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana Work Arrangement: Fully On-site Employment Type: Full-Time Seniority Level: Associate

The Systems Integration and Test Engineer will support the full integration and test lifecycle for complex hardware/software and System-of-Systems capabilities.

The role requires practical experience developing test plans, executing bench and field tests, resolving technical anomalies, automating testing and data analysis, and documenting verification results. The engineer will work across multiple technical domains, potentially including autonomy, RF communications, unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS), electronic warfare (EW), munitions, and fuzes.

The successful candidate will be comfortable working in a fully on-site engineering environment in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with travel to customer and contractor test ranges as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or a related Science, Engineering, or Mathematics field, plus at least five years of relevant experience; or a master's degree plus at least three years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated integration and test experience with complex hardware/software systems.
• Experience authoring or supporting test plans, executing tests, resolving anomalies, and producing formal test reports.
• Hands-on System-of-Systems integration experience, including interface, timing, and interoperability troubleshooting across different subsystems.
• Multidisciplinary integration experience relevant to areas such as RF communications, autonomy, UGVs, small UAS, electronic warfare, munitions, or fuzes.
• Experience using bench and field instrumentation, including oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and data acquisition systems.
• Python scripting experience for test automation and data analysis.
• Experience with use-case-driven or mission-thread-based verification and validation, including requirements traceability.
• Experience working in an Agile environment using Jira and Confluence.
• Ability to create clear, technically accurate documentation for engineering teams and government customers.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% to customer and contractor test ranges.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain the required DoD Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Defense or aerospace experience involving military standards such as MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-1316, MIL-STD-882E, and MIL-STD-2105.
• RF and communications testing, including waveforms, link testing, tactical or mesh networks, GPS-denied environments, and contested-spectrum operations.
• Electronic warfare testing, signal collection, jamming, countermeasure characterization, and range testing.
• Autonomy, UGV, and small UAS integration, including perception, navigation, command and control (C2), and human-machine teaming.
• Munitions and fuzing experience, including setback survivability, safe-and-arm systems, warhead/effects characterization, or lethality testing.
• Environmental and qualification testing, including vibration, shock, thermal, and EMI/EMC.
• Test automation frameworks such as LabVIEW, TestStand, or equivalent tools.
• Linux-based test environments and CI/CD for embedded software testing.
• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and digital-engineering traceability tools.
• Experience with Verification Cross-Reference Matrices (VCRMs), Verification and Validation Plans (VVPs), or equivalent artifacts for DoD milestone reviews.
• Use of AI tools to develop integration and test artifacts or capabilities.

Tools and Technical Environment: Python, CAMEO, Confluence, MATLAB/Simulink, Git, Jira, LabVIEW, and TestStand.