• Location: Boulder, Colorado
• Type: Contract
• Job #3572

Job Title: Systems Integration and Verification Engineer
Job Location: Boulder or Longmont
Clearance: TS/SCI
Compensation Range: $135k – $175k
Hours: 30 – 40 hours/Week

Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government.  Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission.  Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems.  If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.

Program Overview:

Working as part of a technical team of software and integration engineers who successfully design, code, integrate, test and deploy complex systems to the customer. Contributions to detailed design, coding new content and bug fixes, contributing to unit testing, automating unit testing where possible, and contributing to integration testing as needed. Software integration projects will vary from satellite command and control software to satellite payload sensor management software, to mission specific software, to ground hardware & network control software.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop test plans, test objectives, scenarios, and test procedures
• Conduct integration, verification, and validation (IV&V) activities
• Work closely with software engineers and DevOps teams to ensure seamless software integration
• Develop and execute automated tests, including unit and integration testing
• Support CI/CD pipeline automation to streamline software deployment
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve software and integration issues
• Contribute to software requirements development and delivery
• Maintain and manage test documentation
• Collaborate on ground systems and satellite operations testing
• Ensure compliance with security and mission requirements

Required Skills:

• Prior experience with automated test tools such as Selenium and Sikuli
• Strong understanding of the Integration & Verification (I&V) Life Cycle
• Experience using DOORs and/or CAMEO for requirements management
• C++ experience, with a basic understanding of Boost and Qt
• Familiarity with Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
• Automated unit testing experience
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins or working in a DevOps environment
• Experience with satellite ground systems and mission-critical software
• Experience working in a Linux environment
• Strong understanding of software requirements for complex systems
• DXL scripting with an understanding of requirements management and familiar with working in an Agile Environment.
• Ability to generate code for and execute automated testing

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as a system operator (a plus)
• OPIR (Overhead Persistent Infrared) program experience/exposure
• Familiarity with ground network control software
• SBIRS and NGG knowledge along with understanding software development lifecycles is a plus

Company Benefits:
Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs.  These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to:  A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.