SATCOM Test Engineer

SATCOM Test Engineer

Job Category: Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 25%

Type of Travel: Outside Continental US

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The Opportunity:
CACI is looking for a self-motived Test Engineer to support the Spectrum Superiority sector on the US Space Force Remote Modular Terminal (RMT) program in Sterling, VA. The RMT is an Electronic Warfare (EW) system that provides low cost, flexible, ground-based Space Electronic Warfare (SEW) capabilities. The RMT program is fulfilling an expedited development and rapid production and deployment of first-of-its-kind critical space capabilities to protect space assets and defend joint forces from space-enabled attack for the United States Space Force.

Responsibilities:

As a Test Engineer, you will be a part of the Systems Engineering team responsible for the RMT SATCOM terminal design, development, deployment and operations lifecycle. You will apply your hardware and software testing expertise against prototype and production artifacts ensuring requirements are successfully accomplished. You will be responsible for developing test procedures that verify requirements are satisfied for both software and hardware, testing against prototype and production artifacts, and leading customer test events.

The ideal candidate will bring experience testing SATCOM systems.

Qualifications:

Required: 

• Bachelors Degree and 5+ years of relevant experience or 9+ years in lieu of degree
• Experience designing and executing test plans and procedures
• Experience using Atlassian JIRA/Confluence work management tools to capture, prioritize, and track bugs and feature enhancement requests in an Agile workflow paradigm within two-week sprints managed via daily scrums
• Experience with managing and documenting system configurations (cable and assembly documentation)
• Understanding of software containers, such as docker, and ability to analyze API and event logs via Linux environment tools to debug test results
• Familiarity with radio frequency (RF) systems and test equipment (spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, signal generator, multimeter etc.)
• Experience with computer networking infrastructure products such as servers, switches, firewalls, and routers
• Must know the basic commands and navigation of the Linux operating system
• Excellent communication skills and experience collaborating in Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Suite, and SharePoint
• Able to obtain TS/SCI security clearance

Desired:

• General understanding of SATCOM bands S/C/L/X/Ku/Ka
• Technical understanding of hardware (Electrical Engineering) and able to configure a variety of hardware components.
• Kubernetes command and control
• Shell scripting
• Comfortable working in a CUI network environment, classified network environments
• Nightstalker (CACI) software container testing
• Security+
• Root cause analysis of discovered issues
• Automated testing tool development

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What You Can Expect:

 

A culture of integrity.

At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation.

 

An environment of trust.

CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers - every day. You’ll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to robust learning resources to make your ambitions a reality.

A focus on continuous growth.

Together, we will advance our nation's most critical missions, build on our lengthy track record of business success, and find opportunities to break new ground — in your career and in our legacy. 

 

Your potential is limitless. So is ours.

Learn more about CACI here.

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