Hardware Engineer

ManTech - Hanover, MD

Full-time

Hanover, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As a Hardware Engineer at ManTech International Corporation, you will play a crucial role in supporting national security through innovative hardware solutions. This position requires a motivated and customer-oriented individual who can work effectively within a diverse team. You will be responsible for preparing functional requirements and specifications for hardware acquisitions, analyzing hardware specifications, and documenting practical designs for various hardware components, including servers, network devices, and user interface devices. Your expertise will ensure that operational hardware issues are identified and resolved to meet user requirements. In this role, you will assist in preparing installation guides, field test procedures, and troubleshooting guides, while also conducting site surveys to assess and document current network configurations. You will develop hardware installation schedules based on setup, integration, and testing timelines, and train site personnel in the proper use of hardware. Your responsibilities will also include recommending specifications for hardware acquisitions, preparing engineering plans, and documenting as-built configurations at each site. You will be tasked with organizing and directing hardware installations across multiple sites, designing and verifying test harnesses for all test and integration phases, and analyzing operational data to identify potential improvements. Additionally, you will plan all phases of hardware projects, including schedules and budgets, and lead teams to address critical system failures. Collaboration with system engineering and test engineering will be essential to develop and validate hardware test plans and procedures. Your role will also involve directing the work of other hardware engineers and developing proposals to reduce customer costs.

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
• 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; 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
• 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
• Organize and direct hardware installations across multiple sites
• 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 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 improvements
• 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

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 degree
• Current/active TS/SCI with Polygraph