Laboratory Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 11, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 8, 2026.
Salary Range: $70,310 - $83,200
The F-18 Integrated Product Team (IPT) at NAWCWD China Lake has an opening for an Electrical Hardware Integration Engineer. The team member will be working in a dynamic environment and will be responsible for electrical designs, analyzing data, and working collaboratively within a group of Hardware Engineers. Further responsibility includes creating analysis tools and reporting test results of F/A 18 E/F and EA-18G Integration testing.
Essential Job Functions:
The Engineer will support technical engineering reviews, understand system requirements, learn the technical details of the F/A-18 E/F and EA-18G Integration effort and apply that knowledge to help execute a dynamic test program.
Actively participate in test planning of laboratory and flight/ground test events to ensure decision quality test data is collected.
Perform timely and accurate analysis to support decision authorities. The ideal candidate will have analysis experience in 1553 MUX BUS and Fibre data.
Design data analysis processes to assess the performance of various systems and system concepts over development cycles.
Develop requirements for test scenarios and associated documentation.
Review system level documentation and provides changes and recommendations.
Develop test methods for evaluating performance and designs test scenario(s) to yield valid and measurable quantitative test results.
Utilize scripting languages to manipulate and draw conclusions from large data sets.
Develop data analysis tools to streamline and automate data analysis, processing and reporting.
Assess and resolve engineering issues real time during test missions.
Communicate test results verbally and in writing.
Leverage analytical studies to evaluate and advise on system architecture or potential alternative solutions.
Support laboratory and flight testing.
Travel may be desired of the incumbent but is not a requirement for this position.
Job Requirements
Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.
Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline required. Flight Test and Aircraft Platforms and Weapons experience desired.
Excellent communication skills, able to liaison with outside agencies and ability to work independently.
Must demonstrate an ability to analyze and interpret multiple technical data sets and organize/present data into tables, charts, graphs to support program requirements.
Ability to learn how to use multiple data analysis tools and software packages for data reduction and display.
Basic understanding of test plans and Detailed Methods of Test for all weapons systems undergoing initial integration or regression testing on the F/ A-18 and EA-18G aircraft.