| The Weapons & Platforms Center (W&PC) is seeking a strong Engineering Fellow with the critical skills and aptitude to drive solutions to complex questions. Organizational Overview The Weapons & Platforms Center (W&PC) Test Strategy and Architecture (TS&A) provides solutions to effectively develop, manufacture, and deliver prime item hardware for contract requirements. This is accomplished by driving a Systems Engineering approach across all test activities throughout the product life cycle, ensuring product performance, producibility, and warfighter satisfaction. The mission of W&PC is to make TEST more applicable during the design and development process, more strategic and less reactive, and more affordable, agile, and robust throughout the entire contract life cycle. One way we secure these results is by deploying [Systems] Test Architects (TAs) during the Program planning stages, before the contract is won. Another way is to apply Systems Engineering principles in the definition and development for Test Environments (TEn). A TEn is defined as the total environment in which testing takes place. W&PC seeks qualified candidates willing to innovate and collaborate with other Engineering Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) using Model Based Engineering (MBE) processes, tools, and techniques to resolve multi-faceted challenges during TEn development, or in the establishment of Program test strategies and test architectures. Job Description: As a senior engineering leader, mentor, and member of the W&PC team, the Test Systems Architect is accountable for architecting a technically sound approach for the Test and Evaluation (T&E) strategy or systems definition of Test Environments (TEns) for some of the most technologically advanced weapon systems in the world. The qualified candidate must be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in one or more engineering domains applied to Systems Test. He / She must be a systems thinker able to see the big picture and have in-depth knowledge of TEn requirements, development, production, User Operations, and/or embedded test processes and practices. The experienced candidate must know how prime hardware should be tested at every level (from component to All-Up-Round) to ensure robustness and efficiency. The ideal candidate must possess applied working knowledge of developmental test processes, test set-ups, integration, test equipment design & development, and/or verification / validation of product hardware using proven test systems, methodologies, and techniques. Successful candidates will demonstrate experience with composable systems philosophies and/or common architectures. Understanding of Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) and Manufacturing Readiness Levels (MRLs) is a must. The candidate will effectively utilize knowledge of models, simulations, test beds, prototypes, hardware integration, hardware manufacturing, warfighter methodologies, embedded test protocols, and/or full-scale Engineering Development Models to ensure comprehensive lifecycle testing that is both robust and affordable. Additional experience and expertise in the following areas is expected: Broad Customer Interaction:
Required Education, Skills, and Experience:
Requires a Bachelors Degree (BS) in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of fifteen (15) years of prior relevant experience This position requires the successful issuance, transfer or maintenance of any clearances and/or accesses necessary for the position. Additional detail regarding security clearance factors can be obtained by accessing the DISCO website at: https://www.state.gov/security-clearances |
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