Flight Simulator System Integration & Test Engineer Staff

Lockheed Martin•Orlando, FL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is for a level 4 Software Integration Lead on the System Integration/Test Engineer (SI/TE) team within Production Operations for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Pilot Training Device (PTD) product line of flight simulators, including the Full Mission Simulator (FMS), the Modified Mission Rehearsal Trainer (MMRT), the Deployable Mission Rehearsal Trainer (DMRT), and various testbed devices for software development. We integrate deliverable hardware and deliverable software during production testing in our Orlando facility and then deliver the advanced Pilot Training Devices to our customers at their US and international locations. We take pride in our work because we know that pilots gain proficiency in our flight simulators that directly translates to effectiveness when they operate the F-35 aircraft in real-world tactical situations.

Requirements

Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Clearance.
Ability to travel to travel to US and international sites for customer installs.
Experience with installation, administration, and configuration of Windows and Linux OS’s (RHEL, SLES [SUSE]).
Experience in troubleshooting, security, backup, disaster recovery, and performance monitoring of networked systems.
Experience with computer rack cabling, hard drive cloning, installing software licenses, IP configuration, performing firmware updates, and system hardening.
Expert in hardware (servers, switches, I/O modules, & interface panels) and software (Linux OS, Windows OS, & VMware); who correctly identifies unexpected test results as hardware induced or software induced errors.

Nice To Haves

Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, and presentation) and able to communicate effectively with external customer and internal leadership about technical status/issues.
Possess a current CompTIA Security + Certification.
Current approval to access JSF Special Access Programs.
Experience scheduling staffing for multiple simultaneous projects.
Familiarity with JIRA/Confluence Atlassian web-based tools.
Ability to analyze complex designs & create test solutions that optimize quality/cost/schedule variables.

Responsibilities

Integrates hardware and software to create deliverable systems.
Plans, implements, tests, documents, and maintains solutions for the integration and testing of in-house developed and COTS/GOTS components, elements, subsystems and/or systems.
Creates manufacturing test procedures of repeatable processes to efficiently configure hardware and network settings based upon system integration documents for execution by test technicians.
Within 6 months of start date, expected to travel to US and International customer sites to install and test F-35 Pilot Training Devices. Will eventually serve as the program's project manager to lead site installs.
Plans and arranges the labor, schedules, and equipment required for testing and evaluating standard and special devices at Orlando and at customer sites.