**Check out this NEW Opportunity with Axient!** The Senior Independent Verification, Validation and Test (IVV&T) Engineer provides systems and integration engineering for the Space Systems Command (SSC), Space Sensing (SN) Program Executive Office. **What you will do...** The SSC/SN mission is to deliver persistent space sensing for all-domain awareness to deter, defend, and win. Primary mission areas are Missile Warning/Tracking/Defense, Environmental Monitoring, and Persistent Tactical Surveillance. **Job Duties and Responsibilities:** + Coordinate all testing documentation for programs across the Space Sensing portfolio in verification planning and execution activities, to include advising, reviewing, and developing test strategies, Test and Evaluation Master Plans (TEMPs), and requirements verification products. + Participate in formal program reviews. + Provide all IVV&T-related findings and updates to Space Sensing leadership regularly and assist with briefings up the leadership chain. This includes any noteworthy anomalies until resolution. + Document post-test analyses and lessons-learned and actively apply that knowledge into future developmental test criteria and events. + Monitor the execution of the system engineering processes for all of the USAF Space OPIR and defense Weather development, production, sustainment, and future programs to ensure compliance with the technical requirements on contract and all mission assurance practices. **Skills you will need...** + Master’s Degree in Engineering, or related technical field ( **Required)** . Equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted for degree requirement. + **Minimum** 10+ years of experience with Major Command (MAJCOM) level organizations and processes to include a working level knowledge of requirements generation, Planning Programing Budget and Execution (PPBE) and concept development. + Experience developing initial test plans for smaller non-Acquisition Category (ACAT) programs getting operational acceptance _highly desired_ . + Familiarity with Space System Command (Formerly Space and Missile Systems Center) Certification and Authorization (C&A) procedures _highly desired_ + Excellent and detail-oriented organizational, interpersonal, and communications skills _highly desired_ + Advanced-level competency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook _highly desired_ + **Must meet applicable COVID safety requirements and protocols** APPLY HERE (https://careers-axient.icims.com/jobs/6065/senior-space-sensing-integration-verification%2c-validation-and-test-engineer/job?mode=apply&apply=yes&in\_iframe=1&hashed=-336025105) Applicants for positions which require a US government security clearance or access must meet eligibility requirements that most often include US citizenship. This company is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer as defined by the EEOC. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or are a disabled veteran, and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our online application as a result of your disability, you have the right to receive assistance by calling us directly at 256-650-6263 orclick here (help@axientcorp.com?subject=Application%20Help) to reach us by email. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender orientation, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, citizenship, or any other federal, state, or locally protected class. Axient LLC is a federal government contractor and must adhere to applicable safety and legal requirements, protocols, and compliance regulations as required by federal laws and governing agencies. **Job ID** _2024-6065_ **Category** _Engineering - Electrical |Electronics_ **\# of Openings** _1_ **Location : Location** _US-CA-Los Angeles_ **Type** _Regular, Full-Time_ **Minimum Education Requirement** _Master's_ **Minimum Experience Requirement, Years** _10_ **Clearance Requirement** _TS-SCI_