Systems Evaluation Engineer

About the role

The Systems Evaluation Engineer supports PeopleTec's Huntsville, AL location in assessing, validating, and transitioning emerging technologies into the Digital Test Environment (DTE) as part of a multi-year modernization effort.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute capability evaluations end-to-end: scope and objectives, dev evaluation, test evaluation, and decision-gate recommendation.
• Engage with vendors to learn their products, validate claims, and assess fit against DTE needs.
• Configure and evaluate tools in dev and test environments; document findings, gaps, and integration risks.
• Develop evaluation criteria and assess products against DTE technical, security, and operational requirements.
• Collaborate with the integration team to identify, document, and communicate integration gaps, technical constraints, operational impacts, and adoption risks as part of formal evaluation recommendations.
• Produce go/no-go recommendations and supporting technical documentation for the decision gate.
• Hand off adopted products to the integration team with full evaluation artifacts: findings, integration risks, architecture notes, vendor contacts, and known gaps.
• Support the integration team through transition as the subject matter expert on the evaluated product.
• Support tool challenges, modernization initiatives, and continuous capability assessment as the DTE evolves over the program's multi-year horizon.
• Run 2-4 evaluations concurrently at varying stages across multiple tool categories.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of progressively responsible experience in systems engineering, integration engineering, platform engineering, technical evaluation, or a related technical discipline.
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating commercial products against technical, security, and operational requirements.
• Strong hands-on technical aptitude with the ability to rapidly learn unfamiliar technologies, configure evaluation environments, and objectively assess products across multiple technical domains.
• Working knowledge of at least two of the following categories, with the ability to learn the others: Test & Evaluation tools (test automation, data capture, instrumentation), Model-Based Systems Engineering and digital engineering tools, Data and analytics platforms.
• Additional relevant experience may substitute.