Engineering Technician V/VI

Engineering Technician V/VI

LOCATION:Redstone Arsenal, AL

JOB STATUS:Full-time

CLEARANCE: Secret

TRAVEL:As Needed

Astrion has an exciting opportunity for an Engineering Technician V/VI for the RTC Test and Engineering Services (RTES) Contract supporting the Army Division within the Aviation Flight Test Directorate and the Instrumentation/Data Acquisition and Processing Division.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• Possess a HS/GED; Bachelor's Degree (desired only); 9-11 year of experience Electronics/Avionics technical work that developed skills in making measurements using test instruments and computing, or testing of hardware in the appropriate area of specialization; or 2 years of applicable college/vocational/military/technical school and 1 year of applicable experience in the assigned specialty
• Must have experience supporting engineering/testing of systems in an aviation capacity, to include 5-7 years of experience in radio frequency transmissions/telemetry/avionics
• At least 10 years of the 11 years of experience must include engineering/testing of systems in an aviation unit with 2 of those years including experience in radio frequency transmissions/telemetry/avionics
• Thorough understanding of ARINC-429/1553, Ethernet Data and Aircraft Interface Control Documents

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• Experience working with Networking Devices, Audio/Video Transport Hardware
• Experience working with Vendor specific hardware related to telemetry operations, such as Safran, Quasonix, Net-Acquire and Parraid

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide support for execution of Flight Test projects involving data processing and live telemetry (TM) operations to include tracking of aircraft while airborne
• Ideal candidate will possess previous Telemetry operations within the Flight Test environment
• Responsible for pre-mission project set-up to include maintenance and installation of proper TM equipment for test with mobile and fixed TM assets
• Thorough, detail oriented, and organized, with excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize and handlemultipleprojects at once
• Support processing of aircraft data utilizing COTS and GOTS software working alongside Instrumentation and Flight Test Engineers to ensure data is accurate
• Support creation of data products based upon needs of the customer

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