Principal Technical Integrator Engineer

The role

You will manage technical customer portfolios and lead multidisciplinary teams to design and execute complex test and evaluation campaigns. This role involves integrating across the defense community to transition capabilities from developmental readiness to operational viability.

What you will do

• Manage multiple highly technical customer portfolios and relationships to design and execute complex test campaigns.
• Integrate across the defense test and evaluation community to coordinate and execute sophisticated test programs.
• Develop and maintain relationships across the DoD acquisition, test, and operational communities.
• Lead and manage small multidisciplinary teams responsible for designing, coordinating, and executing complex test and evaluation activities.
• Connect development teams with appropriate test resources, infrastructure, and expertise.
• Develop test plans, TEMPs, test concept documents, CONOPs, test objectives, MOPs, and MOEs.
• Serve as a test conductor on behalf of customers.
• Integrate with technical developer and performer teams as a subject-matter expert.
• Collaborate with operational stakeholders to identify specialized requirements and assess capability readiness.
• Brief technical plans, safety considerations, execution strategies, and test results to customers and senior leadership.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with at least 10 years of relevant experience; or
• Master's degree with at least 8 years of relevant experience; or
• PhD with at least 5 years of relevant experience; or
• Equivalent experience directly related to Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E), technical integration, systems engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Active Top Secret security clearance.
• Eligibility to support Special Access Programs (SAP).
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Expert-level understanding of test organizations, assets, infrastructure, capabilities, and organizational relationships.
• Ability to integrate at all levels from technical engineering teams to senior leadership.
• Experience preparing and delivering high-level technical and programmatic briefings to government customers and senior officials.
• Ability to assess customer requirements and adapt test strategies in high-pressure environments.
• Familiarity with standardized DoD test and safety processes, requirements development, and test program management.

Nice to have

• Experience managing relationships across multiple military services and defense organizations.
• Knowledge of developmental capability readiness, test portfolios, and program histories.
• Proficiency in real-time troubleshooting of RF and software systems.
• Experience collaborating across DoD and Intelligence Community (IC) organizations.
• Experience conducting complex test events and integrating multi-domain systems.
• Ability to integrate and train operational partners on system capabilities.
• Experience planning and executing rapid-turnaround technical test scenarios in constrained or austere environments.
• Familiarity with U.S. western test ranges including NTTR, UTTR, and Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
• Professional relationships and working knowledge of U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, OUSD, and SOCOM.

Before you apply

• Requires an active Top Secret security clearance.
• U.S. citizenship is required by the U.S. Government.
• Positions require employees to obtain national security clearances and satisfy export control laws.

About the company

STR is a technology company specializing in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security in cyber, sensors, communications, and artificial intelligence.