Deployable Electronics Engineer

Clearance Level: Must possess active SECRET clearance and be able to obtain TS/SCI clearance.

Responsibilities:

• Be available and willing to deploy to OCONUS locations to include Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Iraq for up to 6 months at a time rotating with other deployers.


• Support technical intelligence (TECHINT), media exploitation (MEDEX), cell phone exploitation (CELLEX), electronic exploitation (ELEX), and other unique exploitation missions.


• Conduct electronic analyses of target devices, including functional analyses of the target devices, understand and describe how the target functions from an electronic perspective - basic signalling characteristics; voltage levels; electrical connections; electrical modifications to commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware; logic states; operating frequencies; component configuration identification; operating profiles/modes; operation in noisy electromagnetic environments; and susceptibility.


• Serve as subject matter expert in RF characterization.


• Publish reports and briefings in order to present characterization information, electronics vulnerabilities, and exploitation recommendations.


• Work with a team to respond to RFI's and determine best consolidated solutions to problems.


• Design and implement characterization standard operating procedures (SOPs) and implement SOPs in daily functions.

• An understanding of RF communications, with an emphasis on complete characterization of electronic circuits.


• Extensive experience in electronics engineering.


• Experience using benchtop RF equipment including Signal Generators, Spectrum Analysers, Oscilloscopes, and other equipment.


• Able to perform standard RF measurements (e.g. occupied bandwidth, average power, and pulse width) using the previous listed test equipment.


• Experience in synthesizing and generating various types of RF waveforms using and arbitrary waveform generator.


• Be able to handle and prioritize many tasks in a fast-paced environment.


• Good written and oral communication skills.


• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills.

• Experience in reverse engineering electronic components and circuit boards.


• Experience supporting exploitation and modeling and simulation tool development.


• Working knowledge of software defined radios (SDR), such as the Ettus B210 and x310. Able to interface with such units in order to transmit or receiver RF signals.


• Basic Matlab (and other basic programming/scripting) skills, should be able to apply digital signal processing techniques to communication signals. Techniques include digital filtering, sample rate conversion, frequency/phase estimation, demodulation, carrier recovery, timing recovery, channel equalization, pulse shaping, and forward error correction.


• Experience working with embedded systems such as Arduino and writing programs leveraging the SPI bus to configure and analyse various chipsets.

• Experience deploying to forward OCONUS locations desired.


• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering and 3 years of experience; or associates degree and 8 years of experience in related field required.


• Advanced degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering and 7 years of experience in related field desired.