Capability Engineer

PeopleTec is currently seeking a Capability Engineer to support our Huntsville, AL location.

PeopleTec is hiring a Capability Engineer to assess and transition new tools and capabilities into our customer's Digital Test Environment (DTE) over the next five years of modernization. The Capability Engineers are the hands-on technical evaluators for each evaluation, engaging with vendors, learning their tools, configuring them in dev and test environments, assessing fit against DTE needs, producing go/no-go recommendations, and handing adopted products off to a separate integration team. Near-term, the work is focused on pilots of commercial products. Over time, the role broadens into continuous capability assessment, tool challenges, and modernization initiatives as the DTE evolves. 

Responsibilities:

• Plan and execute capability evaluations end-to-end: scope and objectives, dev evaluation, test evaluation, and decision-gate recommendation. 
• Engage with vendors to learn their products, validate claims, and assess fit against DTE needs. 
• Configure tools in dev and test environments; document findings, gaps, and integration risks. 
• Develop evaluation criteria and assess products against DTE technical, security, and operational requirements. 
• Collaborate with the integration team to identify, document, and communicate integration gaps, technical constraints, operational impacts, and adoption risks as part of formal evaluation recommendations. 
• Produce go/no-go recommendations and supporting technical documentation for the decision gate. 
• Hand off adopted products to the integration team with full evaluation artifacts: findings, integration risks, architecture notes, vendor contacts, and known gaps. 
• Support the integration team through transition as the subject matter expert on the evaluated product. 
• Support tool challenges, modernization initiatives, and continuous capability assessment as the DTE evolves over the program's multi-year horizon. 
• Run 2-4 evaluations concurrently at varying stages across multiple tool categories. 

Required Skills/Experience:

• 5+ years in systems engineering, integration engineering, or technical evaluation of commercial software products. 
• Demonstrated experience evaluating commercial products against technical, security, and operational requirements. 
• Strong hands-on generalist technical skills — ability to learn and operate unfamiliar software across multiple tool categories, configure it in evaluation environments, and assess it on technical merit. 
• Working knowledge of at least two of the following categories, with the ability to learn the others: 
  • Test & Evaluation tools (test automation, data capture, instrumentation) 
  • Model-Based Systems Engineering and digital engineering tools 
  • Data and analytics platforms 
  • Experience writing technical evaluation criteria, gap analyses, and assessment reports. 
• Comfort working directly with vendors — eliciting honest answers, validating demos against reality, and managing the vendor relationship through an evaluation. 
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• An active DoD Secret clearance is required to perform this work. Candidates are required to have an active Secret clearance upon hire (or the able to obtain), and the ability to maintain this level of clearance during their employment.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field. Additional relevant experience may substitute. 

Desired Skills:

• Active U.S. DoD TOP SECRET or TS/SCI clearance. 
• Experience evaluating or integrating commercial products in accredited DoD or federal environments. 
• Familiarity with RMF, STIGs, and ATO processes as they apply to commercial product integration. 
• Background in T&E modernization, digital test environments, or similar mission contexts. 
• Experience producing buy-vs-build analyses or technical trade studies. 
• Working knowledge across three or more of the tool categories listed in the qualifications. 

People First. Technology Always.

PeopleTec, Inc. is an employee-owned small business founded in Huntsville, AL that provides exceptional customer support by employing and retaining a highly skilled workforce.

Culture: The name "PeopleTec" was deliberately chosen to remind us of our core value system - our people. Our company's foundation was built on placing our employees and customers first. With an award-winning atmosphere, we have matured into a company that boasts the best and brightest across multiple technical fields.

Career: At PeopleTec, we value your long-term goals. Whether it's through our continuing-education opportunities, our robust training programs, or our "People First" benefits package, PeopleTec truly believes that our best investments are our people.

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EEO Statement

PeopleTec, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in its job application procedures. If you have any difficulty using our online system and you need an accommodation due to a disability, you may use the following email address, applicationhelp@peopletec.com and/or phone number (256.319.3800) to contact us about your interest in employment with PeopleTec, Inc.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, citizenship, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. PeopleTec, Inc. participates in E-Verify.