*** Only candidates with current TS/SCI clearance will be considered ***
** We are unable to sponsor a clearance at this time ***
** A POLYGRAPH is required for this position **
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JOB DESCRIPTION and REQUIRED SKILLS:
- 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; assesses and documents 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
- Prepare installation guides, field test procedures, and troubleshooting guides
- Organize and directs 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 improvement
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Fourteen (14) years’ experience as a Hardware Engineer is analyzing complex hardware systems for SIGINT solutions is required
- 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
- Five (5) years of additional hardware engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree
** You must have TS/SCI Clearance for this position **
** A POLYGRAPH is required for this position **
BENEFITS:
- Competitive salary
- Employer-paid health care 100% (CareFirst – Medical, Dental, and Vision)
- 401k Safe Harbor Plan – 6% match – Immediately vested
- 25 days personal time off
- 11 Federal Holidays
- Up to 3 Employer Paid Code Red Days (due to weather, shutdown, etc.)
- $5,000 per year for Training/Personal Development
- Employer-paid Short-Term Disability/Long Term Disability/Life Insurance/AD&D
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.