Test Engineer I — Autonomous Surface Vehicles (Flex Schedules)

Cessna Aircraft Company; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 71,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Work Schedules

Education Assistance

Wellness Program (Fitness Reimburs e)

Medical, Dental, Vision & 401(K) with 

Company Funding

Job summary

Textron Systems is seeking new and recent graduates to join our Sea Systems team to develop autonomous surface vehicles and subsystems, focusing on autonomy, payload integration, and vision systems. You will design, simulate, construct, and field-test platforms to deliver disruptive autonomy technologies enhancing mission capabilities.

Daily interactions with technical leads, program managers, planners, technicians, and engineers are expected; travel up to 25% and active security clearance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in engineering (software, mechanical, electrical, systems) or a related field.
• Experience with hardware and/or software integration, requirements derivation and allocation, or architecture design.
• Testing and integrating new technology into our family of Ground Vehicle products throughout the lifecycle of the program.
• Executing test engineering tasks – including requirements analysis, design review support, formal validation planning, test, verification, risk management, and engineering analysis.
• Preparing and presenting test engineering work products – including test plans, procedures, and reports to internal review teams and external customers.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute tests for products (hardware, software, systems) to ensure quality, functionality, and reliability, creating test plans, writing test cases, identifying defects, and collaborating with development teams for fixes, ultimately ensuring products meet specifications and user needs before launch.
• Test Planning & Design: Understand requirements, define scope, objectives, and resources, then create detailed test plans, strategies, and procedures.
• Test Case Development: Write specific test cases and scripts for various tests (functional, performance, security, etc.).
• Test Execution: Run tests, monitor the development and production process, and manage controlled testing environments.
• Defect Management: Identify document (using bug trackers), report, and track software/hardware and product defects.
• Collaboration & Feedback: Work with developers, process engineers, and management to provide insights, suggest improvements, and ensure quality standards are met.
• Reporting: Analyze results, document findings, preparing and presenting Test engineering work products to internal review teams and external customers at program milestone reviews.
• Interact daily with technical leads, program managers, planners, technicians, and other engineers.
• Driving tasks to completion independently – aided by appropriate supervision and mentoring.
• Collaborating with others within the workgroup, with other departments, and the customer.

Skills

Project leadership

Writing skills

Presentation skills

Travel readiness

Education

Engineering degree (Bachelors/Masters)

Tools

DOORS

JIRA

MagicDraw

Microsoft Office

Job description

Textron Systems is seeking new and recent graduates to join our Sea Systems team to develop autonomous surface vehicles and subsystems, focusing on autonomy, payload integration, and vision systems. You will design, simulate, construct, and field-test platforms to deliver disruptive autonomy technologies enhancing mission capabilities.

Daily interactions with technical leads, program managers, planners, technicians, and engineers are expected; travel up to 25% and active security clearance