Associate Staff - Lead Test Engineer
Posted: 02/27/2026
Industry: Engineering and Technical
Job Number: 18711
Security Clearance: ACTIVE - Top Secret
Job Description
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Title: Associate Staff – Lead Test Engineer
Compensation, Benefits, and Employment Type
Title: Associate Staff – Lead Test Engineer
Compensation, Benefits, and Employment Type
- Permanent/full-time role
- Recent Graduate Hiring Range: $116,400-$140,000
Experienced Hiring Range: $116,400-$182,200 - Benefits include comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, pension, matching 401K, paid leave (including vacation, sick, parental, military, etc.), tuition reimbursement, and continuing education programs
- Job Location: Lexington, MA (100% on-site)
- Schedule: Â M-F, standard business hours
The hiring team's group develops advanced electronic systems and technology for the protection of our Nation’s most important space capabilities. We design and develop state-of-the-art satellites and satellite payloads, novel concepts for resilient space architectures, and the Nation’s most sensitive radars, optics, and passive RF systems. The group also provides engineering rigor and experience to some of the most critical National Security programs through organization-wide collaboration and acts in an advisory capacity to the U.S. Government. Examples of recent projects include the prototyping of electronic systems and effects, hardware-in-the-loop testing of tactically relevant payloads with surrogate threat systems, developing RF subsystems for satellites, and analysis of spacecraft mission dynamics, environments, and resiliency.
Job Description
The group is seeking a lead engineer to integrate and test advanced electronics and space systems. Activities may include team supervision during system integration, test and measurement, data collection and analysis, documentation and reporting, team communication, anomaly resolution, and coordination of activities. The successful candidate will be able to contribute to multi-disciplinary teams executing advanced research and independently solve technical challenges.  Occasional travel to support field exercises, presentations to sponsors and the community, and other events may be required.
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Requirements
Experienced Hiring Range: $116,400-$182,200
Please use the apply button to submit your resume for consideration. A Connexion Representative will contact you shortly.
You may also send your resume and cover letter via email to the recruiter listed below. You MUST include the Job# and Job Title in your subject line.
If you are active in a job search but this job is not for you, please reach out to jobpostings@csetalent.com. We would be glad to help you find the perfect job!
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Job Description
The group is seeking a lead engineer to integrate and test advanced electronics and space systems. Activities may include team supervision during system integration, test and measurement, data collection and analysis, documentation and reporting, team communication, anomaly resolution, and coordination of activities. The successful candidate will be able to contribute to multi-disciplinary teams executing advanced research and independently solve technical challenges.  Occasional travel to support field exercises, presentations to sponsors and the community, and other events may be required.
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Requirements
- Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering or a relevant technical field
- A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and at least 3 years of relevant experience will be considered
- Significant professional or academic experience in at least two of the following areas, and some familiarity and career interest in several others:
- Test design, procedure development, and execution
- RF system and/or high-speed digital system design, fabrication, and test
- Ground support equipment development for space systems
- Electronics: analog and/or digital circuits prototype test development and execution
- Space systems: vehicle design, space environment design and analysis, operations
- Environmental Test: vibration, TVAC, EMI/EMC, space payload integration
- Hardware assembly: clean room and ESD / test environment experience
- Physics: classical electromagnetics, ionizing radiation
- Practical skills: investigative data analysis and rapid troubleshooting of systems
- Automated analysis and reporting: tools, custom analysis applications with user interfaces
- Demonstrable ability to:
- Work responsibly and safely in laboratory and assembly environments
- Develop respectful, productive working relationships
- Communicate clearly, precisely, and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences
- Solve broad and/or complex technical or engineering problems
- Learn and apply advanced technical knowledge quickly and proficiently
- Analytical and/or scientific programming proficiency (e.g. MATLAB, Python, C/C++, or similar)
- Active Top Secret Security Clearance highly desired
Experienced Hiring Range: $116,400-$182,200
Please use the apply button to submit your resume for consideration. A Connexion Representative will contact you shortly.
You may also send your resume and cover letter via email to the recruiter listed below. You MUST include the Job# and Job Title in your subject line.
If you are active in a job search but this job is not for you, please reach out to jobpostings@csetalent.com. We would be glad to help you find the perfect job!
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