Test and Analysis Group Technical Director

Position Summary

This role is suited for a technically authoritative leader capable of shaping the future of advanced systems testing and operational evaluation.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical authority for test and analysis activities supporting advanced sensing, survivability, and weapon systems technologies.
• Lead the development and execution of innovative T&E strategies, methodologies, tools, and analytical techniques for complex defense systems.
• Provide technical oversight for developmental, operational, and integrated testing activities involving Electro-Optic/Infrared (EO/IR), Ultraviolet (UV), RF, missile warning, and advanced sensing technologies.
• Advise government and industry leadership on technical risk, system performance, threat-representative evaluation, and mission effectiveness.
• Direct the development of threat models, radiometric analyses, simulation environments, and performance assessments supporting system verification and validation.
• Lead the development and application of analytical software tools, MATLAB-based models, and custom data analysis capabilities supporting system evaluation and decision-making.
• Cook up with major DoW test organizations, laboratories, and operational commands to support integrated test planning, execution, and reporting activities.
• Brief senior government leadership and decision-makers, including Senior Executive Service (SES) personnel, General Officers (GO), and Congressional Professional Staff Members (PSM) on program status, technical assessments, operational impacts, and strategic recommendations.
• Support open architecture integration efforts and advanced modeling and simulation initiatives for current and next-generation weapon systems.
• Mentor engineering and test personnel while shaping long-term technical strategy and evaluation frameworks.

Required Skills

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
• U.S. Citizen with an active DoW Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Proven ability to lead technical teams and initiatives in a dynamic environment.
• Recognized expertise in EO/IR, UV, and RF systems technologies.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing T&E tools, methodologies, analytical techniques, and operational assessments for complex defense systems.
• Extensive experience with MATLAB, analytical software development, custom analysis tool coding, automation, and data reduction techniques.
• Extensive knowledge of: Weapons systems open architectures, Radiometric analysis for missile warning technologies, RF missile systems guidance and control, Radiometric threat signature derivation and simulation, Modeling and simulation for threat-representative testing, Digital System Models (DSM) and advanced simulation environments.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating with major DoW test and evaluation organizations including: Test Resource Management Center (TRMC), U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC), Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), US Air Force 96th Test Wing, Air Force Research Lab (AFRL).
• Prior leadership experience directing multidisciplinary engineering, software, analysis, and test teams.

Required Experience

• 25+ years of experience supporting DoW T&E, advanced sensing systems, weapon systems engineering, or operational analysis activities.
• Experience advising the Government Product Team on matters of the physics and engineering constraints of EO/IR and UV Sensors, RF systems.
• Extensive experience with MATLAB, analytical software development, custom analysis tool coding, automation, and data reduction techniques.
• Extensive knowledge of: Weapons systems open architectures, Radiometric analysis for missile warning technologies, RF missile systems guidance and control, Radiometric threat signature derivation and simulation, Modeling and simulation for threat-representative testing, Digital System Models (DSM) and advanced simulation environments.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating with major DoW test and evaluation organizations including: Test Resource Management Center (TRMC), U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC), Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), US Air Force 96th Test Wing, Air Force Research Lab (AFRL).
• Prior leadership experience directing multidisciplinary engineering, software, analysis, and test teams.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting advanced missile warning, countermeasure, sensing, or directed energy systems.
• Familiarity with digital engineering and open systems architectures.
• Prior leadership experience directing multidisciplinary engineering, software, analysis, and test teams.