Job Description

Our client is seeking an experienced and strategic leader to serve as the Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead for the Advanced Programs program area within the Integration, Test and Evaluation (IT&E) department.


This role requires a technical and operational leader who can drive the design, development, integration and testing of advanced missile and sensor subsystems within a real-time, closed-loop simulation environment. This leader will oversee a multi-disciplinary engineering team and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful program execution. The ideal candidate will possess excellent leadership skills to work across cross-functional and cross-program coordination amongst different teams and objectives.


Key Responsibilities:
- Leadership and Strategy: Candidate must exhibit leadership attributes of shaping the future, building effective relationships, energizing the team, delivering results, coordinate roadmaps and capabilities, and modeling personal excellence, integrity, and accountability.
- Multi-Product Line Oversight: Manage HWIL development, software and hardware test, and integration efforts with varying technical and contractual requirements.
- Technical Execution: Direct development and sustainment of HWIL capabilities, including sensor modeling and closed-loop simulation.
- IRAD & Technology Development: Work with internal R&D teams to define and implement next-generation HWIL capabilities to support evolving mission needs.

Required Experience:
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in Electrical or Software Engineering with 5 years of professional experience.
• Proven experience leading large, multi-functional IPTs in an HWIL or sensor test environment.
• Understanding of real-time HWIL integration, simulation, and digital modeling
• Expertise in System Engineering processes and HWIL verification methodologies.
• Experience managing multiple programs and balancing technical and business objectives.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Active Secret clearance.
• Demonstrated experience on hardware testing in a lab environment.
• The Candidate should have 4-6 years' experience in:
• Electrical Troubleshooting
• Software Troubleshooting
• Electronic Testing
• Hardware Integration
• Software Engineering
• Systems Integration
• User Acceptance Testing
• Writing proposals and reports

Desired:
• Experience on development program efforts.
• Experience as a Cost Account Manager (CAM), responsible for cost, schedule and budget execution across HWIL development efforts.
• Experience designing, integrating and testing RF Up-conversion / Down-conversion, Attenuation and Signal Control Subsystems, IR Target Generation Systems, and IR Projectors
• Experience integrating digital models into a real-time, closed-loop simulation utilizing C++.
• Experience simulating Datalink, GPS, Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) and Control Actuation Systems (CAS).
• Candidate has 1-2 years Writing proposals and reports

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