Senior Hardware Engineer

$122,200 - $220,900/Yr

Leidos - Columbia, MD

Full-time - Senior

Columbia, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Hardware Engineer at Leidos will provide hardware engineering expertise to analyze complex hardware systems, design architecture, and address technical hardware issues. This role involves procuring equipment, performing acceptance testing, and providing maintenance support. The engineer will also deploy and implement hardware both domestically and internationally, ensuring that solutions meet user requirements and preparing necessary documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design complex systems that integrate with other hardware and GOTS/COTS software components
• Provide analysis of alternatives
• 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

Requirements

• Fourteen (14) years' experience as a Hardware Engineer analyzing complex hardware systems for SIGINT solutions
• Bachelor's degree in Communications Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related discipline from an accredited college or university (Five (5) years of additional hardware engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree)
• Must possess active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance

Benefits

• Four or more weeks of Paid Time Off
• Flexible Schedules
• Discounted Stock Purchase Plans
• Unlimited Education and Training Support
• Parental Paid Leave
• Enhanced PTO
• Disability Sick Leave
• 401k vesting