LDTO Test and Evaluation Engineer

Acuity Innovations•Colorado Springs, CO

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, physics, computer science, or equivalent technical discipline
Experience working with military or DoD civilian clients and managing professional relationships
Strong interpersonal skills, communication (oral and written), and presentation skills
Capable in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
4+ years demonstrated experience in multi-faceted tests and test project teams, to include oversight of scheduling
4+ years test and evaluation experience with DoD/USAF test processes and documentation
Position requires travel to DoD and contractor test sites (up to 25% per year)
US Citizenship and the ability to obtain a DoD SECRET Security Clearance are required for the position

Nice To Haves

5-15+ years’ experience in systems engineering
5-15+ years’ experience in DoD and commercial SATCOM and network engineering
5-15+ years’ experience with military space systems and protected MILSATCOM systems
5-15+ years’ experience with ground systems, such as terminals and networks
Familiar with AFMAN 63-119 and AFI 99-103
Experience with government test and evaluation
Experience with PEO Certification process
Active Secret clearance or higher