Hardware Engineer - Level 5

Responsibilities

Counsels and oversees multidisciplinary engineering teams, including systems, electrical, mechanical, RF/antenna, and structural disciplines. Designs new or modifies existing products, develops technical specifications for production, analyzes hardware configuration and processing solutions, and tests hardware conformance to specifications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 12 years of relevant experience – OR – Master’s degree with 10 years of relevant experience – OR – PhD with 8 years of relevant experience.
  • An additional 4 years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance required at time of application.
• Experience providing technical guidance and oversight for multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Proven ability to lead and manage teams of 20 or more personnel, including project estimating, schedule management, subcontract management, material and equipment allocation, and conflict resolution.
• Experience with system, subsystem, and component level testing, including test plan development, system availability/reliability analysis, troubleshooting, and field engineering.
• Experience in site development, logistics planning and execution, and supporting defense contractors and federal government projects.
• Experience ensuring quality control, safety, and compliance across engineering projects and job sites.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience providing technical guidance and oversight for a multidisciplinary, Shelter based Integrated Product Team or similar product-based development team.
• Demonstrated success functioning as the technical advisor for the customer and/or end-user on multiple programs, representing the engineering team and resolving technical issues.
• Experience providing consultant-level technical services for programs and/or capture efforts outside of primary full-time program support.
• Proven ability to manage tasking and personnel resources to optimize support of multiple concurrent programs, including developing strategic staffing plans for multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers for technical development and career guidance, and maintaining a high-integrity, high-effectiveness team culture internally and externally.
• Background in Nuclear Effects Survivability (HEMP/SREMP/CBRN) for shelter and mission-critical systems.
• Hands-on experience with RF system hardware and antenna engineering, including system, sub-system, and component-level test planning and execution.
• Experience with structural analysis in support of shelter and site development.

Pay

Primary Level Salary Range: $146,300.00 - $241,400.00