Director, Test Engineering - ACP Programs (R5044)

Act as Test Director and technical lead for integration and flight test of Hivemind autonomy on group 5 ACP systems, including multi-aircraft coordination scenarios in LVC and empirical flight test scenarios.

Own test strategy and execution across the full development lifecycle, including system-level verification & validation, test phasing, and prioritization across SIL, HIL, simulation, ground, and flight test environments

Plan and execute large-scale flight test campaigns, including complex mission scenarios involving cooperative autonomy, human-machine teaming, and distributed systems

Serve as the final authority during mission autonomy test operations, directing test conduct and approving test plans, procedures, and execution flow

Coordinate cross-functional execution across software, hardware, systems engineering, flight operations, safety, and program leadership teams

Define mission-level performance metrics and success criteria, ensuring traceability from requirements to test outcomes and operational effectiveness

Own test infrastructure strategy, including large-scale simulation environments, SIL/HIL systems, aircraft integration labs, and flight test assets

Lead on-aircraft integration and flight test operations with platform OEM partners, including system configuration, software deployment, real-time troubleshooting, and post-flight data analysis

Serve as primary coordinator working with platform OEMs to define and enforce test readiness criteria (entry/exit), define safety-of-flight and mission risk management, airspace coordination and test hazard identification, analysis, and mitigation to ultimately make go/no-go decisions for progression into ground and flight test events

Establish and scale test processes, standards, and best practices aligned with DoD DT&E/OT&E expectations and operational test rigor