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**Job Summary:** Mercury Systems is seeking a Test Engineer III to lead test efforts in our data processing and avionics systems for mission critical aerospace and defense applications. This role plays a pivotal part in ensuring product reliability, performance, and security across the full engineering lifecycle from concept to sustainment. **Job Responsibilities:** - Ensuring test systems comply with quality requirements, reliability, and regulatory compliance - Work with cross-functional development teams to ensure that products are designed to facilitate testability including qualification, verification and validation requirements - Develop, specify and/or procure test equipment that meets quality objectives, design margins and the needs of manufacturing - Develop and write test documentation such as compliance matrices; Acceptance Test Procedures (ATP), Qualification Test Procedures (QTP), and Functional Test Procedures (FTP) using test standards such as MIL-STD-810G & H, MIL-STD-704A, and MIL-STD-461F & G - Oversee and conduct functional, environmental, stress, and security testing of hardware and software systems, ensuring performance in extreme conditions and mission-critical environments. - Work independently under minimal supervision and guidance to perform tasks of substantial complexity and conduct testing activities on site and at testing contract facilities - Produce test reports, presentation, and CDRL’s for contractual deliverables - Train/cross-train test and troubleshooting techniques with Production test team - Troubleshoot systems and circuit card assemblies using relevant electrical, mechanical, and analytical tools to identify root cause and resolve technical issues. - Lead the troubleshooting activities, Investigate the cause of the failures and fix the defect at top level assembly, sub-level assembly, PCBA board level, components, and or test equipment - Collaborate with Mission Assurance teams to conduct root cause analyses for issues identified during testing and sustainment. **Required Qualifications:** - Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer science, manufacturing engineering or equivalent experience - Typically requires 4+ years of experience testing electrical hardware or other military based systems - Experience with mixed-signal Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) and system validation test development - Experience in developing and executing verification and validation test procedures. - Experience testing ruggedized servers for harsh environments (e.g., extreme temperatures, shock, vibration). - Ability to read and understand circuit and wiring diagrams, technical specifications and electronics test procedures - Good understanding of manufacturing processes with the ability to work on multiple projects in a highly demanding environment - Experience understanding system and subsystem requirements & specification generation processes - Knowledge of a wide variety of electronics test and analyzing equipment including oscilloscopes, analyzers, power supplies, meters and any other special electronics test equipment necessary for testing, analyzing and/or troubleshooting/repairing - Experience understanding engineering principles and demonstrated application of those concepts with a focus on safety and regulatory compliance. - Experience in LabVIEW, Python, Bash, C#,C++, MATLAB, or other programming languages used for data collection and analysis. - This role is 100% on-site and based in Torrance, CA. **Preferred Qualifications:** - Active U.S. Secret Clearance. - Experience with military standards such as MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, and MIL-STD-1275. - Experience with Aerospace, Defense, Government, or Military sectors. - Skilled in documentation and collaboration platforms, including Confluence and SharePoint. - Experience with engineering lifecycle tools such as Jama, Jira, BitBucket. - Demonstrated leadership experience with the ability to guide Integrated Pr…