HWIL Automation & Data Engineer (Mid-Level)

DESE Research, Inc.; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work schedules

Education reimbursement program

Company paid life insurance

Job summary

DESE Research, Inc. is seeking a HWIL Automation & Data Engineer (Mid-Level) in Huntsville to join a multidisciplinary team. You will automate verification scripts, post-run logging, and data analytics to support mission-critical testing and telemetry processing.

Responsibilities include designing automated pipelines, ensuring data capture across interfaces, and optimizing regression cycles. A U.S. Secret clearance is required or can be obtained; a BS in engineering or related field is expected.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Secret Security Clearance or ability to obtain one.
• Bachelor's Degree in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, or related discipline
• Experience writing test execution automation scripts and/or post-processing utilities to parse extensive data files or database logs.
• Software automation experience (3+ years) including script design, database querying, data plotting, and statistical reporting.
• Familiarity with object-oriented scripting guidelines and modern repository branching paradigms.

Responsibilities

• Plan, design, develop and verify automated execution scripts and large-scale data post-processing engines.
• Evaluate customer/operational needs to define test script logic, scale automation pipelines, and assure data capture across telemetry interfaces.
• Optimize mass regression cycles, automation reliability, and telemetry analytics reporting pipelines.
• Analyze pass/fail trends, parameter performance bounds, runtime exceptions, and diagnostics to optimize configurations for mission success.
• Ensure compliance with system requirements for automation software logic and analytical scripts.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate continuous regression loops into test schedules.
• Define and document automation framework dependencies, data storage maps, and telemetry report layouts.

Job description

DESE Research is seeking a HWIL Automation & Data Engineer (Mid-Level) to work closely with a multidisciplinary team of engineers to ensure the successful automation of verification scripts and post-run logging analysis.

Position is contingent upon contract award.

The successful candidate will:

• Apply an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop and verify complex automated execution scripts and large-scale data post-processing engines.
• Evaluate customer/operational needs to define test script logic, coordinate automated pipeline scaling, and assure data capture across all active telemetry interfaces.
• Perform various analyses to optimize mass regression cycles, automated run reliability, and telemetry analytics reporting pipelines.
• Perform analyses for pass/fail trend vectors, parameter performance bounds, runtime exceptions, diagnostic processing speed, test matrix efficiency, and other specialties that factor into a preferred configuration to ensure mission success.

Position Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with system requirements and specifications of the design and development of automation software logic and analytical scripts.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including modeling, verification, and hardware engineers, to integrate continuous regression loops into the test schedule.
• Define and document the automation framework dependencies, data storage maps, and telemetry report layouts.
• Ensure compliance with software scripting standards, metric validation policies, and data processing security rules.
• Support test plans and procedure development to systematically run batch simulation cycles without manual intervention.
• Support the troubleshooting and resolution of script timing faults, database gaps, or corrupted telemetry files caught post-run.

Required Qualifications:

• Active U.S. Secret Security Clearance (or the ability to obtain one).
• Bachelor's Degree in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, or a related discipline
• Experience writing test execution automation scripts AND/OR Experience writing post-processing utilities to parse extensive data files or database logs.
• Software automation experience (3+ years) including script design, database querying, data plotting, and statistical reporting.
• Familiarity with object-oriented scripting guidelines and modern repository branching paradigms.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience tracking telemetry points from dynamic vehicles or parsing complex aerospace network diagnostic streams.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline platforms like Jenkins or GitLab.
• Proficiency in using engineering software tools for modeling, simulation, and analysis (e.g., Python, Pandas, NumPy, MATLAB).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to process unstructured data payloads to highlight engineering fault trends.

About DESE

For the past 46 years, DESE has provided industry-leading technical and engineering solutions in the fields of Defense, Energy, Space, and Environment. As a small, family-oriented business, DESE provides a compelling benefits package including a generous profit-sharing plan, competitive salaries, and perhaps most importantly, the opportunity to work alongside talented professionals leveraging cutting‑edge technologies to solve complex and engaging problems.

Why employees love working for DESE:

• Competitive health, dental and vision insurance with affordable premiums
• Flexible work schedules
• Two different flexible spending account options
• Company paid life insurance with options for employee paid additional
• Performance bonus program
• Education reimbursement program
• Company paid personal leave for approved philanthropic activities
• Vacation, Sick & Holiday leave
• Robust 401k profit sharing plan
• Opportunities for internal promotions
• Employee referral incentive program
• Rewards and gifts for service anniversaries

Disability Accommodation for Applicants - DESE Research, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in its job application procedures. If you have any difficulty using our online system and you need an accommodation due to a disability, you may use the following alternative email address or phone number to contact us about your interest in employment with us: [e-mail] or 256-837-8004x123.