Systems/Test Engineer

AMERICAN SYSTEMS

Systems/Test Engineer executing test activities for aircraft systems and subsystems at AMERICAN SYSTEMS. Collaborating with teams to ensure safety, quality, and compliance during testing processes.

Posted 7/19/2026full-timeOrlando • Florida • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $96,800 - $161,500 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in planning, executing, and documenting test activities for aircraft systems, ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards. Proficient in developing test strategies and collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve successful test outcomes.

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Test Engineering ExperienceSystems Engineering ExperienceTest Strategy DevelopmentSecret ClearanceTest and Integration Experience

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Hard Skills

Test PlanningTest Procedure DevelopmentTest Case CreationData AnalysisDefect IdentificationPerformance EvaluationTest DocumentationRegression TestingVerification and ValidationConfiguration Control

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunicationProblem-SolvingAttention to DetailAnalytical Thinking

Tools & Technologies

Flight SimulatorsTest InstrumentationData Collection ToolsTest Environment Setup

Industry Keywords

Aircraft SystemsAvionicsMission SystemsSafety StandardsAirworthinessRegulatory ComplianceIntegration TestingOperational TestingTechnical Interchange MeetingsTest Readiness Reviews

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Plan, coordinate, and execute test activities for aircraft systems, subsystems, and integrated capabilities.
Develop test strategies, test plans, test procedures, test cases, and test reports for developmental, integration, qualification, verification, validation, and operational testing.
Support test events involving aircraft avionics, mission systems, communications, sensors, software, hardware, interfaces, and related subsystems.
Coordinate with systems engineers, software developers, hardware engineers, flight operations, maintenance personnel, and program leadership to prepare for and execute tests.
Define test objectives, success criteria, data requirements, resource needs, and test configurations.
Support test readiness reviews, safety reviews, technical interchange meetings, and post-test debriefs.
Conduct or support bench, lab, hardware-in-the-loop, ground, taxi, and flight test activities, as applicable.
Collect, analyze, and document test data, discrepancies, observations, and performance results.
Identify defects, anomalies, integration issues, and performance shortfalls and support corrective action efforts.
Ensure traceability between requirements, test procedures, test results, and verification evidence.
Support test environment setup, configuration control, instrumentation coordination, and data collection planning.
Prepare formal test documentation and status updates for program management, engineering leadership, customers, and certification authorities, as applicable.
Support regression testing, retesting, and validation of resolved deficiencies.
Ensure test activities are conducted in accordance with applicable safety, quality, airworthiness, and regulatory standards.

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS/BA and 5-7 years of test engineering and/or systems engineering experience (Related MPRA experience can be substituted for a degree)
Secret Clearance
Test and Integration experience on complex flight simulators

Benefits

Comp & perks

healthcare benefits
paid leave
retirement plans
insurance programs
education and training assistance