Position Description

Seeking Journey Level Scientists and Engineers for Flight Test Engineer, Test Engineer, Test Data Analyst and Software Testing Positions at NAVAIR NAWCWD (Point Mugu, CA and China Lake, CA).

Position Duties/Responsibilities

Duties may include:

• Support the design of test programs to assess the performance of NAVY systems and weapon system concepts.
• Produce test plans in accordance with NAVAIR test planning instructions.
• Develop test methods for evaluating performance and design test scenarios to yield valid and measurable quantitative test results.
• Review system level documentation to provide changes and recommendations.
• Participate at test planning and system development meetings.
• Assesses safety hazards and provides risk mitigation inputs in testing, including Test Hazard Assessments.
• Apply Mission Based Test and Evaluation (MBT&E), Capabilities Based Test and Evaluation (CBT&E), System of Systems thinking and, Design of Experiments (DOE) concepts to guide planning, test execution, data collection and analysis.
• Coordinate and schedules necessary test asset and range resources.
• Design data analysis processes to assess the performance of Navy weapons or systems over development cycles
• Define and coordinate data collection requirements.
• Develop test support, instrumentation, and data recording requirements to facilitate collection of critical flight test data
• Support the real-time execution of Navy weapons or systems test, assessing, and providing recommendations to engineering issues.
• Develop data analysis tools to streamline and automate data analysis, processing, and reporting
• Utilize scripting languages to manipulate and draw conclusions from large data sets.
• Analyze test data {real-time and post-mission) to improve understand of test results, draw conclusions and assess specific mission results.
• Conduct pre- and post-test briefings.
• Provide input for system performance in official Navy Test and Evaluation (T&E) reports.

Location: China Lake, CA and Point, Mugu CA

Travel: 0-25%

Security Clearance: Minimum SECRET

US Citizenship Required

Full Time / Permanent Assignment

Our work in leading-edge defense systems, engineering, computer science, electronics, finance, logistics, and contract management provides our Sailors and Marines with the capabilities they need to accomplish their mission and return home safely.

NAVAIR’s culture is as rich and diverse as its people. Civilians work side-by-side with military personnel to accomplish the NAVAIR mission.