Job Summary

• Provide hardware engineering 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.
• Deploy, install, and implement hardware at Continental United States (CONUS) and Outside Continental United States (OCONUS).
• Prepares specifications for hardware by analyzing documented and derived system requirements. Conduct site surveys.
• Prepares engineering plans and site Technical Design Packages.
• Organize and direct hardware installations.
• Configure (and document configuration of) computers, networking devices and various peripheral equipment. Prepare site installation and test reports.
• Ensure that problems have been properly identified and solutions will satisfy the user's requirements. Prepare reports and recommendations concerning existing and emerging hardware technologies. Provide specific input to the hardware components of system design to include end-user devices, servers, networking devices, data storage devices, and specialized

Primary Responsibilities

• Plan all phases of hardware project to include schedules, budgets, and maturation of technical performance parameters
• Organize and direct teams to address critical system failures that potentially derive from hardware component failure or misconfiguration
• Work closely with system engineering and test engineering to develop and validate hardware portion of test plans, test procedures, throughput models, failure analysis, and risk analysis
• Develop proposals for the program manager to reduce or avoid customer costs in up-front acquisition costs or operational/disposal costs
• Direct the work of other hardware engineers on a project requiring a variety of hardware engineering activities and tasks

Education and Experience Requirements

• Twenty (20) years experience as a hardware engineer 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

Other Duties Disclaimer

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties and responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.