181 - Senior Test Engineer

Azure Summit Technology is a mature, growing small business with locations in Melbourne, Florida, and Fairfax, Virginia.  Azure develops and delivers high-performance RF hardware, firmware, and software products, and innovative, practical, multi-function RF systems solutions that address emerging missions of national importance for customers across the Department of Defense.  We are a diverse team of highly qualified RF systems engineers and mission subject matter experts (SMEs) with backgrounds in electrical, mechanical, RF, hardware, software, firmware and systems engineering, working together within a creative, innovative and highly collaborative culture, to deliver cutting edge solutions for our customers.  To do this, we hire people with a passion to succeed.  We look for problem solvers.  People who have unique perspectives and diverse experience.

Are you in?

Do you work well in a team environment and on your own as an individual contributor?  Do you know how to set the bar high and achieve goals for yourself and bring others along with you?  Do you work hard and play hard?  Do you want to help the company succeed and build your skill set and further your career at the same time?  Azure Summit Technology just might be the place for you.      

What do we do?

Azure Summit Technology provides a wide range of multi-channel, software-defined radio solutions for applications including surveillance, communications, radar, direction finding, emitter location, and interference cancellation. Systems can be tailored to meet a variety of requirements for bandwidth, dynamic range, number of channels, and computational resources. Supported platforms range from resource-constrained small UAVs and wearable devices to manned aircraft and submarines. Azure also offers innovative signal processing solutions to challenging problems in the realm of radio frequency spectrum awareness.

What will you do?

Azure Summit Technology is currently seeking a Senior Test Engineer. The selected candidate will be part of a dynamic, growing, cross-functional, and geographically distributed team. This position is located on-site at our facility in Fairfax, Virginia, with occasional overnight travel to our Melbourne, Florida office and other locations in the Washington, DC region.  Your future team has worked together to produce the following job description:

The selected candidate will be responsible for planning for and preparing equipment, facilities, test plans and logistical arrangements for hardware and software tests of complex, mission critical SIGINT equipment supporting U.S. military forces.  The candidate will work closely with Azure’s engineering team to develop objective, verifiable acceptance test procedures and criteria to provide assurance that the system under test meets requirements and will coordinate those with customer personnel to secure their concurrence.  Duties will include procurement, installation, and configuration of test equipment; facility use planning, acceptance testing, analysis of test data, preparation of test reports, root cause determination of improper or inconsistent operation, oversight of testing schedules, reporting on technical progress and schedule projections to the Azure program manager and customer representatives.   Additional responsibilities include developing recommendations to accelerate testing and improve test efficiency and may include development of software to automate testing.   This position may also involve engineering rotation assignments in independent research and development, production, RF design and development, software engineering, and systems engineering as business needs allow and tasking is available.

The candidate will be instrumental in helping Azure meet its business objectives and contract requirements for testing and delivery of complex SIGINT systems on schedule and with the full satisfaction of our customers.

Basic Requirements

- US citizenship, due to nature of the work and contract requirement

- Top Secret security clearance, due to contract requirement

- Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering or equivalent military experience

- Minimum 2 years experience with radio frequency (RF) engineering principles and signal processing

- Minimum 4 years experience with testing of complex electronic defense systems

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in successful interaction with personnel representing different components of Department of Defense procurement offices

- 2 years experience in software development

- Proficiency with developing, maintaining, and using spreadsheet data in Microsoft Excel or similar tools for data collection, analysis, and tracking

- 3 years’ hands on experience using a signal generator, spectrum analyzer, and oscilloscope to test or debug RF analog and digital systems

- Experience developing software code to control test equipment and RF hardware for automated testing

- Excellent oral and written communication and problem solving skills

Azure Summit Technology is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Veterans/Disabled Employer. Azure Summit Technology provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. Azure Summit Technology expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment or discrimination based on any of the characteristics mentioned above. Improper interference with the ability of other employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated. To request accommodation, contact Julia Bergeman, 571-308-1408, julia.bergeman@azuresummit.com.