Hardware Engineer Level 2

Are you interested in using your skills to help shape the Cyber, Security, & Intel space? If so, look no further. We are seeking a Hardware Engineer to join our team of passionate individuals. In this role you will support challenging, mission-critical projects that make a direct impact on the nation’s security and intelligence mission.

Support in the daily operations of a semiconductor assembly facility by supporting the design team by analyzing complex hardware systems, hardware designs, architectures, network designs and other technical hardware issues to develop the next-gen devices.

Responsibilities:

• Provide expertise to analyze complex hardware systems, hardware design, architecture, network design and other technical hardware issues.
• Procure and perform acceptance testing on equipment, provide hardware maintenance support, both preventative and remedial as well as deploy, install, and implement hardware.
• Prepare specifications for the hardware by analyzing documented and derived system requirements, conduct site surveys, and prepare engineering plans and site Technical Design Packages.
• Organize and direct hardware installations and prepare site installation and test reports.
• Ensure that problems have been properly identified and solutions will satisfy the user’s requirements then prepare reports and recommendations concerning existing and emerging hardware technologies.

• Prepare functional requirements and specifications for hardware acquisitions.
• Analyze hardware specifications and system/subsystem requirements to conceive and document a practical design for hardware components to include servers, network devices, transmission media, storage devices, user interface devices, and special processors.
• Ensure that problems with operational hardware have been properly identified and solutions will satisfy the user’s requirements.
• Assist with preparing installation guides, field test procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Conduct site surveys; assess and document current site network configuration and site-unique requirements.
• Develop hardware installation schedules based upon set-up, integration, and test timelines.
• Train site personnel in proper use of hardware.
• Recommend specifications for hardware acquisitions.
• Prepare engineering plans and site installation Technical Design Packages.
• Prepare drawings documenting as-built configurations at each site.
• Prepare site installation and test reports.
• Configure computers, communications devices, and peripheral equipment.
• Organize and direct hardware installations across multiple sites.
• Design and verify test harnesses/simulated interfaces for all test and integration phases.
• Analyze and recommend hardware specifications for project-unique or modified commercial hardware.
• Assist with building simulations of proposed systems and provides hardware throughput analyses to system engineers.
• Prepare Mean-Time-Between-Failure and Mean-Time-To-Repair analyses.
• Analyze operational data to identify choke points, failure modes, and other data for design or maintainability improvements.

• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.

• Fourteen (14) years’ experience as a HE analyzing complex hardware systems for SIGINT solutions is required.
• Five (5) years of additional hardware engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.