Hardware Engineer

Overview

Triaplex, Inc. (A wholly owned subsidiary of VTG) is seeking a Hardware Engineer to join our SIGINT team. The successful candidate will work on-site working with RF schematics, along with testing and installing hardware.

What will you do?

Responsibilities :

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 ha

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 improvementss

Do you have what it takes?

Required Qualifications

Active and Current TS / SCI with Poly; Poly Date within the last seven (7) years

Required Skills :

Technician that has experience with wiring RF systems based on a schematic

Familiar with hardware installation

Familiar with electronic test equipment and electronic system trouble-shooting

Ten (10) years of experience as a HE 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.