Missile Systems Test Execution Engineer

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab; Laurel (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in the Baltimore-Washington area seeks a Test Execution Engineer to support ground and flight tests for air and missile defense programs. You will work with sponsors, weapon centers, test ranges, and contractors to develop test requirements, objectives, plans, and schedules.

Responsibilities include assessing system requirements, evaluating performance predictions, developing test strategy requirements for HWIL and flight tests, analyzing results,

Qualifications

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or related fields.
• 2+ years of relevant professional experience in Test and Evaluation activities such as wind tunnel testing, electro-optical testing, environmental testing, or flight testing for missile development programs or similar kinetic weapons.
• Ability to work on multiple complex program tasks independently with little supervision.
• Knowledge and experience with the systems engineering process.
• Willingness to take on additional work and challenges and to develop new skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both verbal and written.
• Willingness to travel up to 20-25% time.
• Eligibility for Interim Secret clearance with potential Top Secret clearance; U.S. citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Develop test requirements, objectives, plans, and schedules for ground and flight tests in support of missile weapon system development activities.
• Assess weapon system requirements and documentation to understand updates to design and implications to test execution, modeling and simulation, scenario development, and test range safety.
• Evaluate weapon system performance predictions to assess flight test feasibility and range safety implications.
• Develop test strategy requirements for flight test, HWIL testing, experiments and demonstrations, including M&S.
• Analyze flight test and HWIL results to ensure design requirements and regression are captured.
• Manage daily coordination and synchronization of ground and flight test activities; coordinate POAMs and major milestone meetings.
• Support test execution activities onsite at CONUS and OCONUS ranges.

Skills

Systems engineering

Communication

Travel readiness

Team coordination

Security clearance readiness

Education

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

B.S. in Aerospace Engineering

B.S. in Physics

Job description

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in the Baltimore-Washington area seeks a Test Execution Engineer to support ground and flight tests for air and missile defense programs. You will work with sponsors, weapon centers, test ranges, and contractors to develop test requirements, objectives, plans, and schedules.

Responsibilities include assessing system requirements, evaluating performance predictions, developing test strategy requirements for HWIL and flight tests, analyzing results,