489 - Test Technician

Azure Summit Technology is a mature, growing small business with locations in Melbourne, Florida, and Fairfax, Virginia. Azure develops and delivers high-performance RF hardware, firmware, and software products, and innovative, practical, multi-function RF systems solutions that address emerging missions of national importance for customers across the Department of Defense. We are a diverse team of highly qualified RF systems engineers and mission subject matter experts (SMEs) with backgrounds in electrical, mechanical, RF, hardware, software, firmware and systems engineering, working together within a creative, innovative and highly collaborative culture, to deliver cutting edge solutions for our customers. To do this, we hire people with a passion to succeed. We look for problem solvers. People who have unique perspectives and diverse experience.

Are you in?

Do you work well in a team environment and on your own as an individual contributor? Do you know how to set the bar high and achieve goals for yourself and bring others along with you? Do you work hard and play hard? Do you want to help the company succeed and build your skill set and further your career at the same time? Azure Summit Technology just might be the place for you.

What do we do?

Azure Summit Technology provides a wide range of multi-channel, software-defined radio solutions for applications including surveillance, communications, radar, direction finding, emitter location, and interference cancellation. Systems can be tailored to meet a variety of requirements for bandwidth, dynamic range, number of channels, and computational resources. Supported platforms range from resource-constrained small UAVs and wearable devices to manned aircraft and submarines. Azure also offers innovative signal processing solutions to challenging problems in the realm of radio frequency spectrum awareness.

What will you do?

Azure Summit Technology is currently seeking a Test Technician. The selected candidate will be part of a dynamic, growing, cross-functional, and geographically distributed team.  This position is located on-site at our facility in Melbourne, Florida, with occasional overnight travel to our office in Fairfax, Virginia, and other locations as needed.  Your future team has worked together to produce the following job description:

The selected candidate will be responsible for assembling hardware, testing commercial components and subassemblies, performing system level integration and troubleshooting, and performing formal acceptance testing procedures (ATP) for complex systems that incorporate RF and digital circuit boards, components, and assemblies.  Additional duties may include assembling and testing test fixtures and equipment, performing software installation and checkout procedures, preparing or verifying drawings or technical data, and preparing instructional material for system operation and maintenance guides.   The selected candidate will trace test failures and issues to root causes, develop recommendations to improve the efficiency and quality of integration and testing processes, and provide reports on task status, issues and expected completion schedule to the technical lead and the program manager.  The selected candidate will also provide support in various administration duties.

Basic Requirements

- US citizenship, due to nature of the work and contract requirement

- Ability to obtain SECRET security clearance, due to contract requirement

- 10 years experience working on development, integration and/or test of complex, integrated RF and digital electronic hardware from component to system level

- 10 years supporting the development of functional test procedures

- 10 years hands on experience using a signal generator, spectrum analyzer, and oscilloscope

Preferred Qualifications

- TOP SECRET/SCI clearance

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and an ability to interact efficiently with peers and customers

- Experience with signals intelligence (SIGINT) or related systems

- Associate's degree in Electronics Technology or equivalent experience

- Experience developing test fixtures and/or software, using C, C++, Python, Matlab, and/or LabView

- Experience in reading system wiring and layout drawings using tools such as Adobe Acrobat, Visio and/or AutoCAD

- Proficiency with developing, maintaining, and using spreadsheet data in Microsoft Excel or similar tools for data collection, analysis, and tracking

Azure Summit Technology is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Veterans/Disabled Employer. Azure Summit Technology provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. Azure Summit Technology expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment or discrimination based on any of the characteristics mentioned above. Improper interference with the ability of other employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated. To request accommodation, contact Julia Bergeman, 571-455-6486, julia.bergeman@azuresummit.com.