Senior Test Engineer - SBMC

Elbit America, Inc. in; Roanoke (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Elbit America, Inc. in Roanoke, VA is seeking a Senior Test Engineer to design and develop test hardware and software for night-vision sensors.

You will collaborate with electrical, mechanical, optical, software, and system teams to evaluate products and release them to customers. The role requires leading test design efforts, creating test plans and reports, and ensuring alignment with project budgets and schedules.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering required; electrical, mechanical, optical, computer, or software engineering preferred.
• DOD Secret clearance capable or obtainable.
• BS with 5+ years’ experience (or MS with 3+ years’) in test design and development.
• Experience in product qualification and leading a team or project.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain test equipment for all product testing stages.
• Lead design validation testing, manufacturing product validation, and design verification testing.
• Develop requirements, specifications, plans, procedures, and reports for test systems and qualification.
• Create test architecture for fixtures and equipment with cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• Inform budgets and ensure costs align with budgets.
• Participate in design reviews and provide test-focused feedback.
• Release work documents via appropriate document/change management tools.
• Interface with engineering, program management, and other disciplines to understand scope.
• Research new test technologies and apply them where appropriate.

Skills

Test design and development

Team leadership

Reading schematics and drawings

Scripting languages

C/C++/C# programming

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

MS in engineering

Tools

LabVIEW

TestStand

GitLab

Job description

Job Summary:

The Senior Test Engineer researches, plans, designs, develops, analyzes, and tests a variety of night‑vision sensors and systems. This includes creating the test hardware and software required to evaluate these products. Success in this role requires effective collaboration within a cross-functional engineering team to complete projects and release products to our end customers.

Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Design and maintain test equipment used for all stages of product testing.
• Perform and lead others through design and qualification validation testing, manufacturing product validation, and engineering design test verification.
• Develop requirements, specifications, plans, procedures, and reports for test system development and product qualification, verification, and validation.
• Produce relevant design architecture for test fixtures, equipment, and/or processes, and work with other engineering disciplines (electrical, mechanical, optical, software, system) to create final work output
• Inform engineering budgets and ensure engineering-related costs adhere to the defined budget.
• Able to participate in engineering design reviews and give feedback that is test-related.
• Release work product into the appropriate document and change management tool.
• Interface with other engineering disciplines and program management to understand requirements and scope of effort.
• Researches new developments in test technology and can utilize them in our product testing.

Education Requirements:

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering is required; electrical, mechanical, optical, computer, or software engineering preferred.
• Must be able to obtain a favorably adjudicated DOD Clearance at the Secret level.
• BS with 5+ years’ experience (or MS with 3+ years’) in test design and development
• Experience in product qualification.
• Experience in leading a team or project
• Provide thorough, accurate information to inform the product team and to meet commitment times or performance metrics.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including MS Office.
• Use the scientific method to identify possible solutions to failures.
• Able to read schematics and mechanical drawings/models

Preferred:

• LabView/Test Stand experience
• Scripting languages
• C/C++/C# programming experience.
• GitLab experience
• Experience in testing optical models/designs
• Experience in the defense and military industry.

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