Join a mission-critical team supporting flight test operations. As an Instrumentation Engineer, you will play a key role in delivering reliable data acquisition, instrumentation, and flightline support for advanced test missions. Working on-site with Department of Defense (DoD) stakeholders, you will configure data systems, monitor mission launch and recovery, troubleshoot complex instrumentation systems, and ensure the integrity of mission-critical data.
This role blends hands-on engineering with consulting impact. You will document procedures, present findings to stakeholders, and contribute to reusable templates and best practices that strengthen our delivery across defense programs. The position is ideal for a cleared engineering professional who thrives in fast-paced flight test environments and values precision, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- You must be willing to work at Yuma, Arizona
- A CURRENT TS/SCI IS REQUIRED -eligible for Special Access Program (SAP) read-in
- Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Electrical or Aeronautical preferred).
- Hands-on expertise with instrumentation, data acquisition, or flight test technologies.
- Strong analytical reasoning and structured problem-solving skills.
- Clear written and verbal communication with proven stakeholder management experience.
- Disciplined approach to documentation, testing, and quality assurance.
- Willingness to support very infrequent travel as required by mission needs.
Your Day to Day will include
- Perform discovery, analysis, and configuration activities across assigned instrumentation scope, including load data acquisition programming and data system status display development.
- Monitor test mission launch and recovery operations; document and disposition data anomalies to maintain mission data integrity.
- Provide guidance and hands-on support to flightline operations, including writing and revising flightline operations procedures.
- Troubleshoot instrumentation systems and review collected data to validate accuracy, completeness, and quality.
- Troubleshoot instrumentation by tracking down hardware or data-flow issues and applying fixes to keep systems healthy.
- Manage data workflows by loading mission programs, watching launch and recovery, and keeping real-time system displays on track.
Pay Range: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at ELEVI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At ELEVI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits. Learn more here.
The proposed salary range for this position is:
$95,500-120,000
Why Work at ELEVI?
To become an ELEVI employee is to become an integral part of the team. From Federal to Commercial, ELEVI offers our employees the ability to expand skills and fully engage their minds and passions. Each member of the team enjoys the opportunity to expand their career to meet their individual goals and objectives. We celebrate the ideas that bring about positive change, and the diverse talents and backgrounds that come together to create those ideas.
Our benefit packages encompass competitive compensation, financial and counseling services, retirement options, and health insurance programs. Coupled with work/life benefits to address significant life problems as well as everyday problems involved in juggling work, family, and life. We trust you to take the time you need when you feel it's appropriate. No need to keep track or save up. We trust our employees and empower them to shape their work themselves so that we can achieve the best possible results.
ELEVI IS an equal opportunity employer (EOE) that empowers our people. It is the policy of ELEVI to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants—without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. We fearlessly drive change, because without diversity of thought and a commitment to equality for all, there is no moving forward. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.
Skills Required
- Current TS/SCI clearance (eligible for SAP read-in)
- Willingness to work on-site in Yuma, Arizona
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering
- Electrical or Aeronautical engineering degree preferred
- Hands-on expertise with instrumentation, data acquisition, or flight test technologies
- Strong analytical reasoning and structured problem-solving skills
- Clear written and verbal communication and stakeholder management experience
- Disciplined approach to documentation, testing, and quality assurance
- Willingness to support very infrequent travel as required by mission needs
What We Do
The word ELEVI \ 'eh•lay•vee' \ which comes from the Italian language and means “to Maximize” is exemplary of our mission: To maximize the benefits of technology to satisfy the mission and business needs of our clients. Founded in 2002, ELEVI is a Certified Small Business specializing in the delivery of IT based solutions to Mission and Business needs. As a multi-dimensional company, ELEVI is comprised of three business units: • IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES: Consulting / Planning / Engineering / Implementation / Support • IT STAFFING SOLUTIONS: Human Capital Management / IT Staff Augmentation • TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS & SUPPORT: Value Added Reseller of IT Hardware & Software Products ELEVI is uniquely positioned to support the technology needs of our customers as a result of the cumulative effect of these three business units. Our IT Professional Services business unit capabilities are supported by the core competencies of both our IT Staffing Solutions which enables us to provide IT Professional who possess the skills and experience necessary to execute successfully. At the same time, our IT Professional Services business unit capabilities are augmented by the IT Product Manufacturer relationships within our Technology Systems and Support business unit resulting in our ability to provide highly skilled IT professionals who possess industry certifications from manufacturers such as Cisco, Foundry/Brocade, Sourcefire, Alcatel-Lucent, EMC2, and many others. Supported by a culture that thrives on constant improvement, ELEVI leverages industry leading resources, best practices and subject matter expertise to carefully transform technology and innovative ideas into sound and even revolutionary mission and business solutions delivered on time, in-budget, and in easy-to-understand formats. ELEVI provides the results you want with the value you need!
