Hardware Engineer Level 2

Amentum - Fort Meade, MD

Full-time - Senior

Fort Meade, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Hardware Engineer Level 2 position involves supporting mission-critical projects in the Cyber, Security, and Intelligence space. The role focuses on analyzing complex hardware systems and designs, providing maintenance support, and ensuring the successful deployment and installation of hardware in a semiconductor assembly facility. The engineer will work closely with design teams to develop next-generation devices that directly impact national security and intelligence missions.

Responsibilities

• Provide 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, as well as deploy, install, and implement hardware.
• Prepare specifications for the hardware by analyzing documented and derived system requirements, conduct site surveys, and prepare engineering plans and site Technical Design Packages.
• Organize and direct hardware installations and prepare site installation and test reports.
• Ensure that problems have been properly identified and solutions will satisfy the user's requirements, then prepare reports and recommendations concerning existing and emerging hardware technologies.
• 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.
• Assist with preparing installation guides, field test procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Conduct site surveys; assess and document 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.
• Prepare drawings documenting as-built configurations at each site.
• 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 provide 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 improvements.

Requirements

• 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.
• Fourteen (14) years' experience as a Hardware Engineer analyzing complex hardware systems for SIGINT solutions is required.
• Five (5) years of additional hardware engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.