Systems Integration Testing Engineer

Peraton; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a motivated Product Quality System Engineer to support planning, test development, data definition, and task execution for NSG products. The role involves writing clear test plans, coordinating with image scientists, analysts, photogrammetrists, and statisticians to track issues, and communicating status to stakeholders.

The candidate should have imaging experience across multiple sensor types (EO/IR/SAR), strong communication skills, and the ability to work both independently

Qualifications

• BS degree in a STEM field; 8 years of system engineering experience with a BS or 6 years with a MS including independent testing and data verification.
• Experience with sensor imaging systems, products, and exploitation processes.
• Strong written and oral communication, including briefing to obtain decisions and test plan/report writing.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team; willingness to learn in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Support planning, test development, data definition, and task execution for NSG products; write clear test plans to satisfy objectives.
• Collaborate with image scientists, image analysts, photogrammetrists, and statisticians to track issues and communicate status.
• Verify and validate product visual quality and support data accuracy across data providers and sensor phenomenologies.

Skills

Top Secret clearance

TS/SCI upgrade

Polygraph

Systems Engineering

Test planning

Data verification

Sensor imaging

Communication skills

Independent work

Education

BS in Systems Engineering / EE / Physics / Software Eng

MS degree preferred

Job description

Required Experience/Education:

• Must have a minimum of a Top Secret clearance and willing to upgrade clearance to TS/SCI and pass a polygraph within 30 days of employment or at customers request- Contract requires TS/SCI with poly.
• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in System Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Software Engineering, or a related Science or Engineering
• 8 years of system engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree or 6 years of experience with a Master's degree to include independent testing and data verification, requirements, and development of concept of operations.
• Experience with sensor imaging systems, products, and exploitation processes
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with emphasis on briefing to obtain decisions and solve technical issues and test plans/reports writing
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
• Willingness to learn, solve problems and perform in a dynamic work environment

Preferred Skillset:

• Experience in remote sensing phenomenologies (for example EO/IR/SAR)
• Knowledge of NSG tasking, collection, processing, exploitation and dissemination (TCPED) image chain
• Experience with product quality assessments, visual or metadata assessments

We are seeking a motivated product quality SYSTEM ENGINEER to support the planning, test development, data definition, and task execution for new and existing products within the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG). The candidate will need to write clear test plans to satisfy the test objective. They will work with a team of image scientists, image analysts, photogrammetrists, and statisticians to perform specific tasks, track issues, and clearly communicate status and results to multiple stakeholders.

The mission spans many data providers and sensor phenomenology's including electrical-optical, RADAR, LIDAR, OPIR, motion, multi- and hyper-spectral. We work to verify and validate product visual quality, as well as the accuracy of the support data. The qualified candidate should have experience with test design to verify and validate products against requirements to meet planned concept of operations. The ideal candidate will have image science or imagery analysis experience or knowledge ready to apply to the challenges of the group. Good written and verbal communication and teamwork are critical.