Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Full Scope Poly

Duties, Responsibilities, and Tasks:

• 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).
• Prepare specifications for hardware by analyzing documented and derived system requirements. 
• Prepare engineering plans and site Technical Design Packages.
• Organize and direct hardware installations.
• Configure (and document configuration of) computers, communications devices, 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 processors.
• 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
• 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 drawings documenting as-built configurations at each site
• Prepare installation guides, field test procedures, and troubleshooting guides

Qualifications:

• Clearance TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
• Education
  • 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.
• Experience
  • Twelve (12) years experience as a HE analyzing complex hardware systems for SIGINT solutions.
  • 7 years experience prototyping hardware products and components (Processors, Memory, CPU, hard drive).
  • 7 years experience deploying hardware while considering power, space and cooling requirements. Installing and troubleshooting hardware products.
  • 7 years experience documenting hardware and system specifications and schematics.
  • 7 years experience developing custom hardware solutions in a production and development environment.
  • 7 years experience researching and prototyping potential system components of a CDS system.