Hardware Engineer chez VTG

Key Responsibilities

• 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

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.