Senior Environmental Test Lead – DoD Secret Clearance

RTX; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 108,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental coverage

Vision insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Flexible work schedules

Job summary

RTX is seeking a Principal Test Engineer - Team Lead for Environmental Test (ET) in Tucson, AZ. The role leads a small team on second shift, executing environmental tests, designing setups, and ensuring data capture and analysis meet customer requirements.

Requirements include a STEM degree with ~8 years of experience, expertise in vibration/shaker systems, instrumentation, and data acquisition. DoD secret clearance is preferred; relocation and comprehensive benefits are available.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience working with environmental test vibration shaker systems or experience with instrumentation (accelerometers, thermocouples, strain gages, load cells, etc…) and data acquisition systems (Dewetron, DeweSoft, LabView, Agilent/Keysight, Benchlink, Somat, etc…).

Responsibilities

• Consult and provide testing guidance to internal program customers and verify their proposed testing will meet the intended requirements.
• Write test plans and procedures that meet the requirements and safety of testing requested by internal program customers as well as review plans and procedures written by others. Also create schedules and budgets for all testing.
• Oversee and personally conduct environmental testing to validate models for the purposes of new product qualification, production acceptance, flight test clearance, engineering evaluations, and failure investigations.
• Implement engineering best practices to ensure testing is performed accurately, on schedule, and within allowed budget.
• Analyze test data real time and posttest to validate requirements have been met in accordance with requirements.
• Communicate status of ongoing testing efforts with ET leadership and internal program customers.
• Design, model, and analyze vibration and structural test fixtures using CREO Parametric and Ansys Workbench.

Skills

Environmental testing

Vibration systems

Data acquisition

CREO Parametric

Ansys Workbench

LabVIEW

Dewetron

DeweSoft

Keysight

Measurement instrumentation

Education

STEM degree

Tools

CREO Parametric

Ansys Workbench

LabVIEW

Dewetron

DeweSoft

Job description

RTX is seeking a Principal Test Engineer - Team Lead for Environmental Test (ET) in Tucson, AZ. The role leads a small team on second shift, executing environmental tests, designing setups, and ensuring data capture and analysis meet customer requirements.

Requirements include a STEM degree with ~8 years of experience, expertise in vibration/shaker systems, instrumentation, and data acquisition. DoD secret clearance is preferred; relocation and comprehensive benefits are available.