Missile Systems Test Execution Engineer

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

Job summary

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has an opening for a Test Execution Engineer to support a variety of ground and flight test activities for air and missile defense weapon systems. You will coordinate cross‑functional teams, develop test requirements, and ensure safety and feasibility across CONUS/OCONUS ranges.

Minimum qualifications include a B.S. in a related field and 2+ years in Test & Evaluation with systems engineering knowledge, strong communication skills,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years of relevant professional experience in Test & 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 develop new skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to travel to sponsor, contractor, and test sites up to 20-25% time.
• Eligible for Interim Secret clearance with potential for Top Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Work with sponsors, Weapon Centers, Test Ranges, contractors, and the Test Team to 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 (M&S), scenario development, and test range safety.
• Evaluate weapon system performance predictions to assess preliminary performance and range safety implications for flight test feasibility assessments. May support additional analysis in these areas.
• Develop test strategy requirements for flight test, HWIL testing, experiments and demonstrations, to include M&S, to capture verification and validation evidence of weapon and missile systems performance.
• Analyze flight test and HWIL results to ensure design requirements, intent, and regression are captured. Understand the implications of test results to future test activities and strategy.
• Manage the daily coordination, integration, and synchronization of various types of ground and flight test activities. Coordinate Test Team working group meetings, and manage Plans of Action and Milestones (POAMs). Support major milestone meetings.
• Support test execution activities onsite at CONUS and OCONUS flight test ranges.

Skills

Test & Evaluation

Systems Engineering

Communication

Education

B.S. in related field

M.S. in related field

Tools

Missile test ranges instrumentation

Job description

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has an opening for a Test Execution Engineer to support a variety of ground and flight test activities for air and missile defense weapon systems. You will coordinate cross‑functional teams, develop test requirements, and ensure safety and feasibility across CONUS/OCONUS ranges.

Minimum qualifications include a B.S. in a related field and 2+ years in Test & Evaluation with systems engineering knowledge, strong communication skills,