JTEO Test Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Acuity Innovations LLC is a small, defense contracting company that provides enterprise architecture, solution design, digital engineering, defensive cyberspace operations, system integration, and test and evaluation products and services that improve performance and decrease decision timelines. Our fundamental, repeatable service offering is bound in architecting, designing, securing, integrating, and verifying the operational readiness of data ecosystems.   

Do you want to be part of a unique, small business that differentiates itself by:

• delivering the best products, integrated systems, and mission capabilities for the warfighter
• building long-term relationships and treating its employees as family
• deploying small but powerful High-Performance Teams, like elite Special Forces teams to each task
• collaborating within and across the Acuity Innovations teams as well as with the customer
• providing a growth path to partnership/ownership opportunities

If you have this type of passion and desire to be part of a collaborative team environment with the innovation, initiative, and confidence to make things better, then Acuity Innovations may be the right place to realize your personal and professional goals. 

Package includes:

• Competitive salary
• 3 weeks paid time off
• 11 Federal Holidays
• Flexible Hours
• Benefits 
• Career Development/Mentorship Opportunities
• Company Sponsored Social Events

You will join a systems engineering team defining the next generation of space communication systems supporting US Space Force (USSF) satellite communications for the USSF Space Systems Center (SSC). You will support Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) activities in a multidisciplinary and collaborative environment. You will interface and collaborate with SE&I team members, contractors, government civilians and members of the USSF. You will lead and support several working groups responsible for leading technical discussion, resolve and identify risk, requirement gaps, developing briefings, writing, and tracking action items, and authoring meeting minutes.

We support the Space Force’s satellite communications systems, providing global secure, survivable, and protected communications for our nation’s warfighters. We seek technical individuals who will succeed in a highly collaborative work environment.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate, schedule, and execute JTEO Working Groups in support of Terminal Requirements Verification (RV), Requirements Management and Analysis (RMA), Interoperability and Interface Control, and Terminal Integration Roadmap efforts
• Work in a team environment across both the Joint Terminal Engineering Office (JTEO) and the Lead development Test Organization (LDTO) to test and verify system requirements and operational capability for US Space Force Tactical and Strategic SATCOM systems
• Develop related briefing materials and present to senior leader forums such as the Interface Control Working Group, Operations and Terminal Program Review (OTPR), Terminal Technical Interchange Meetings (TIM) and Integrated Test Teams (ITT), and other forums as required
• Facilitates Engineering Review Boards (ERBs) and Change Control Boards (CCBs) to manage the SATCOM enterprise technical baseline
• Other responsibilities as assigned

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s or equivalent STEM degree
• 3+ years on SATCOM programs or terminals; 5+ years of experience on Space or Missiles programs
• Expertise in developing technical specifications and requirements
• Familiarity with DOORS process and exportability
• Ability to develop and write documents in accordance with DoD guidance in support of a multi-agency, multi-location team
• Ability to work across several organizations in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to develop scenarios, support studies, and frame analytical questions that provide context, purpose, and analytical rigor in support of client-directed studies.
• Ability to make recommendations regarding the military utility, feasibility, and verification of the concepts and capabilities under development
• Ability to communicate with and distill information from technical resources during formal and informal meetings
• Strong organizational skills and ability to re-prioritize tasking as conditions change
• Strong executive-level communication skills, both written and spoken
• Experience in positions of high synergy with USSF SATCOM development and test programs
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility is required