About the position
Advanced Acoustic Concepts, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Thales Defense & Security Inc., is a technical leader in the fields of sonar systems, sonar signal processing, acoustic training systems, and open architecture system and software integration. The venture focuses on emerging areas in the undersea warfare domain where the customer has identified mission-critical needs. The Test Engineer III position is responsible for leading a group of engineers on a technical activity and ensuring the completion of activities on time and within budget. The role involves designing, developing, analyzing, documenting, and supporting testing of products, systems, and subsystems, utilizing computer-aided engineering or other design/analysis software. The engineer will be involved with the analysis, design, development, and implementation of new and/or existing systems/subsystems, including architectural design and requirements engineering.
Responsibilities
- Lead a group of engineers on a technical activity and ensure completion on time and budget
- Design, develop, analyze, document, and support testing of products, systems, or subsystems
- Use computer-aided engineering or other design/analysis software in the performance of assignments
- Hands-on integration and troubleshooting of complex computer hardware and software systems
- Conduct cyber security assessments and implement remediation as needed
- Review customer specifications and requirements, and develop designs to support them, including cost as a key design variable
- Provide budget, cost, and schedule estimate input for design assignments
- Specify and evaluate supplier components, subsystems, and services
- Drive the program design to cost and design for manufacture requirements
- Develop prototypes to retire key development risks
- Communicate clearly (written and oral) with other company personnel and the customer as required
- Participate in preparation of proposals
- Provide technical knowledge and assistance to other engineers and support personnel
- Lead and direct the work of others as assigned
- Support, communicate, reinforce and defend the mission, values, and culture of the organization
- Attend appropriate engineering, customer, or business meetings
- Lead less experienced engineers
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or electrical/computer engineering
- Minimum of 5 years of experience
- Fluency in technologies and application domain
- Must be able to obtain/maintain the appropriate level of government issued security clearance and/or access
- Experience with Redhat Linux, Microsoft Windows Operating Environments, Virtualization Management products from VM-Ware
- Ability to lead a technical group independently
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Cisco network configuration
Benefits
- 9/80 compressed schedule whereby employees work 80 hours in 2 weeks with every other Friday off
