Cleared Integration and Test Engineer, National/Tactical Systems
Charlottesville, Virginia
Overview
General Atomics pioneers technologies with the potential to change the world. Behind a talented global team of engineers, GA delivers safe, sustainable, and economical solutions to meet growing global demands. Our Engineers have an opportunity to work on first of a kind product lines within an incredible, dynamic environment.
Engineering positions typically require a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience. Candidates from mechanical, electrical, and aerospace engineering backgrounds must know the fundamentals of engineering system developments, requirements, testing, and integration before getting to the final stages of customer interface and project management.
Schedule: Full-Time Salary
Job Level: Mid-Level (3-7 years)
Travel: 0 - 25
Success Profile
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- Analytical
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- Problem Solver
- Team Player
- Creative
Job Summary
GA-CCRi is looking for Systems Integration Engineers to join our National Tactical Department, leveraging our global situation awareness platform in new next-generation Battle Orchestration capabilities for Department of Defense customers. Join our team as a Systems Integration Engineer, where you'll spearhead software development and integration testing efforts. Collaborate closely with our talented Model-Based System Engineers (MBSE), who excel in modeling expertise. This opportunity offers contributing alongside MSBEs in designing and developing scalable, high-performance systems that leverage advanced modeling methodologies. Systems Modeling Language (SysML) functional models are used to employ solutions that orchestrate engagement control via System of Systems (SoS) architectures. Engineering solutions are tested, demonstrated, and assessed by subject matter experts followed by solution transitioning. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a rapidly growing new business area on a critical national priority.
GA-CCRi develops best-in-class global situational awareness and battle orchestration capabilities that process petabytes of data from diverse sources in near real time. Our systems apply state-of-the-art algorithms and machine learning techniques to extract features, fuse data and form a rich live view of objects across land, sea and sky. We empower decision makers to solve meaningful challenges through innovative data science and scalable software engineering.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Collaborate with MBSEs to ensure that MBSE frameworks align with System of Systems (SoS) architectures
- Participate in the software development for integration support, data validation, configuration, deployment, customization, and testing
- Validate the integrity and accuracy of data exchanged between system components through scripts, logging, and testing output
- Develop solutions to replicate behavior of external systems/environments to ensure quality and confidence with integration efforts
- Translate system requirements into testable scenarios, ensuring that all aspects of the model are thoroughly tested and validated
- Execute testing of interactions and interfaces between different subsystems or modules, ensuring that data flows smoothly and that all components communicate effectively
- Develop, modify, and execute testing plans based on system requirements, ensuring comprehensive coverage of all functionalities and interfaces
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including MBSEs and project managers, to ensure effective communication and alignment throughout the testing process
Job Qualifications:
- Typically requires a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems or a related discipline and five or more years of professional software quality analyst experience. Equivalent professional quality analyst experience may be substituted in lieu of education.
- Familiar with scripting/programming languages including Bash, Python, Java, and JavaScript
- Experience with integration testing methodologies and techniques, including testing of interfaces, data exchange, and system interactions.
- Experience in developing scripts or utilities for monitoring, logging, and performance profiling of integrated systems
- Experience with software development life cycles and best practices
- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and agile development methodologies
- Familiar with containers and basic orchestration (Docker, Docker-Compose and similar)
- Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts and present findings to stakeholders.
- Ability to develop solutions to a variety of routine and non-routine problems of moderate scope and complexity
DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Experience integrating military systems in secure environments
- Experience with verification, validation, and regression testing
- Knowledge of relevant domains such as aerospace or defense industries
- Interested in Geospatial data processing and tactical comms
- Curious and excited to learn new technologies
- Excited about understanding our customer’s needs and mission
- Interested in maintaining and adapting complex systems
- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaboration tools
- Familiar with RESTful APIs
Salary:$89,180 - $155,825
Benefits
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Healthcare
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Pension, 401(k)/Retirement Plans
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Competitive Pay
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Multiple product lines means a variety of work
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Paid Time Off

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