AI&T IPT Lead - Assembly, Integration and Test (QSS)

Job Responsibilities

• Be the "hands on" on the floor QGG AI&T IPT lead, including integration planning, build flow, readiness gates, test execution, anomaly management, and delivery coordination.
• Own the AI&T plan, integration sequence, test readiness criteria, GSE/MGSE/EGSE/OGSE needs, and subsystem handoff criteria all the way from planning to system delivery.
• Career development and maintenance of integration procedures, test procedures, travelers, configuration records, test data packages, and customer acceptance evidence.
• Plan and execute functional, interface, environmental, optical, vacuum, electrical, and system-level verification activities as applicable.
• Lead TRR-style reviews, readiness reviews, failure/anomaly investigations, and recovery planning.
• Ensure integration and test activities are compatible with laser safety, high voltage, vacuum, cleanliness, handling, ESD, and facility constraints.
• Drive readiness for facility, instrumentation, shipping, handling, and safety inputs.
• Track AI&T schedule, resource needs, open issues and closure plans, risks, and EAC/ETC impacts for program reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in assembly, integration, test, verification, production test, or systems test for complex hardware.
• Aerospace hardware experience is required, including integration, verification, environmental test, delivery of flight, flight-relevant, or similarly high-reliability hardware.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary integration/test teams through build, checkout, anomaly resolution, and delivery.
• Experience writing or approving integration/test procedures, travelers, verification reports, readiness packages, and sell-off evidence.
• Experience with environmental or system verification such as thermal/vacuum, vibration, electrical functional test, optical alignment/test, or interface test.
• Strong working knowledge of configuration control, test discipline, safety, quality, nonconformance, and hardware handling.
• Ability to communicate test status, blockers, risks, and recovery plans clearly to technical teams and program leadership.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with "go fast" programs where schedule can't slip.
• Experience with complex space payloads, flight hardware, or other high-reliability aerospace test programs.
• Experience with optical, laser/LIDAR, UHV, high-voltage, precision electromechanical, embedded electronics, or quantum/AMO laboratory systems.
• Experience with TRR, ATP, environmental test campaigns, customer-witnessed testing, and formal delivery packages.
• Experience building or managing GSE/MGSE/EGSE/OGSE readiness.
• Experience supporting EVM, CAM status, IMS execution, or cost/schedule variance reporting.