Senior Test Engineer (T&E)

SAICSan Diego, CA
Onsite

About The Position

SAIC is seeking a Senior Test Engineer to lead and support the planning, execution, direction, analysis, and reporting of experimental, developmental, and operational testing for advanced Navy capabilities. This role builds upon core test engineering functions by providing senior-level leadership across complex test events, cross-functional technical teams, and operational stakeholders. The candidate will support testing across operational, HWIL, virtual, and other relevant environments while helping evaluate system performance, identify risks, document findings, and inform capability development. The role requires the ability to bridge operational, technical, and executive audiences while supporting efforts involving mission engineering, fires, modeling and simulation, data analytics, communications systems, tactical networks, datalinks, and Aegis Weapon System-related capabilities, as applicable.

Requirements

  • Senior-level leadership across complex test events, cross-functional technical teams, and operational stakeholders.
  • Support testing across operational, HWIL, virtual, and other relevant environments.
  • Evaluate system performance, identify risks, document findings, and inform capability development.
  • Ability to bridge operational, technical, and executive audiences.
  • Support efforts involving mission engineering, fires, modeling and simulation, data analytics, communications systems, tactical networks, datalinks, and Aegis Weapon System-related capabilities, as applicable.

Responsibilities

  • Extensive experience planning, test directing, executing, documenting, and reporting on operational testing.
  • Demonstrated leadership and management capability within cross-functional technical and operational team-of-teams environments.
  • Ability to coordinate engineers, developers, operators, analysts, and program stakeholders in support of complex test events.
  • Experience developing or reviewing test documentation, test reports, briefings, after-action materials, and other deliverables used to capture results, observations, issues, risks, and recommendations.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical information for operational, program, and executive audiences.
  • Demonstrated ability to coordinate tasks, communicate status, manage stakeholders, support issue resolution, and provide senior-level test support in a dynamic program environment.
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