Student Veterans of America Jobs

Welcome to SVA’s jobs portal, your one-stop shop for finding the most up to date source of employment opportunities. We have partnered with the National Labor Exchange to provide you this information. You may be looking for part-time employment to supplement your income while you are in school. You might be looking for an internship to add experience to your resume. And you may be completing your training ready to start a new career. This site has all of those types of jobs.

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Job Information

Amentum Flight Test Engineer / Test Manager in Arlington, Virginia

Amentum is a leading provider of engineering, scientific, and program management support services to some of the top agencies in the U.S. government, including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA, and the Department of Homeland Security and the intelligence community.

Amentum is currently seeking talented, enthusiastic, and dynamic individuals to support DARPA in formulating, monitoring, and transitioning advanced research and development programs to the U.S. military. Amentum is actively involved in DARPA’s Tactical Technology, Strategic Technology, Defense Sciences and Information Processing Techniques Offices. More information about DARPA can be found at: http://www.darpa.mil

Amentum is currently looking for a qualified flight test engineer / test manager to provide technical and programmatic oversight of various research and development projects for DARPA.

Candidates will work closely with DARPA Program Managers as well as high level personnel throughout the government and also with industry research and development communities. Applicants must be technically strong and possess superior oral and written communications skills. Candidates should be self-starters capable of working both independently and as part of a team. 25% travel duty time is required.

Technical and management responsibilities may include:

  • Providing technical support and subject matter expertise in monitoring the execution of advanced technology development and demonstration programs.

  • Performing independent technical assessments and feasibility analyses of new technologies and system designs.

  • Planning, managing, attending, monitoring, and reporting on system flight and ground testing and demonstrations.

  • Supporting technical interchange meetings and design reviews.

  • Identifying and implementing new program concepts.

  • Providing program management and acquisition support.

  • Authoring program status briefings and technical reports.

Required qualifications: Technical Qualifications Required:

  • Minimum of a B.S. in Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics with at least 8 years of flight test experience or an M.S. degree with 6 years of flight test experience or 20 years of experience in flight test domain with a Bachelor of Arts.

  • Ability to obtain a Secret clearance. Note: US citizenship is required to obtain a Secret clearance.

  • Platform concept development, requirements definition, and program support experience.

  • Test Program Management experience including planning, execution, and reporting.

  • Ground and flight Test Conductor experience.

  • Unique or non-standard flight test experience.

  • Desired Qualifications:

  • An active Secret clearance.

  • Graduate from a Service or private Test Pilot School is preferred.

Desired Qualifications:

  • An active Secret clearance

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.

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