Electrical Engineer - Deployable

Parra Consulting Group, Inc. . • Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Parra Consulting Group, Inc. is seeking an Deployable Electrical Engineer to provide engineering support located in Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland. This successful candidate will be responsible for assisting in engineering discipline activities for conducting system, subsystem and component level, reverse engineering, replications, and validation. The role involves hands-on RF collection, characterization, and reverse engineering of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) equipment and components, as well as hands-on technical forensic exploitation support for technical intelligence (TECHINT), media exploitation (MEDEX), cell phone exploitation (CELLEX), electronic exploitation (ELEX), and other unique exploitation missions. The engineer will also write draft characterization reports and information tables based on requirements.

Requirements

• Active Top-Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain SCI.
• BA/BS in Electrical Engineering and 3 years of experience OR Associates degree and 6 years of experience OR High School and 8 years of experience.
• Experience in Schematic capture and Printed Circuit Board (PCB) layout.
• Electronic and/or RF experience with testing with related equipment.
• Understanding of RF communications, with emphasis on characterization of electronic circuits.
• Experience using benchtop RF equipment including Signal Generators, Spectrum Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, and other equipment.
• Perform standard RF measurements (e.g., occupied bandwidth, average power, pulse width) using the previously listed test equipment.
• Experience synthesizing and generating various types of RF waveforms using arbitrary waveform generators.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in reverse engineering electronic devices from start to finish.
• Experience in reverse engineering electronic components and circuit boards.
• Experience with soldering and re-working (e.g. through-hole, surface mount, cable assemblies, wire harnesses).
• General RF or electronic domain design or test experience.
• Basic MATLAB (and other basic programming / scripting) skills should be able to apply digital 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 analyze various chipsets.

Responsibilities

• Assist in engineering discipline activities for conducting system, subsystem and component level, reverse engineering, replications, and validation.
• Provide hands-on RF collection, characterization, and reverse engineering of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) equipment and components.
• Provide hands-on technical forensic exploitation support for technical intelligence (TECHINT), media exploitation (MEDEX), cell phone exploitation (CELLEX), electronic exploitation (ELEX), and other unique exploitation missions.
• Write draft characterization reports and information tables based on requirements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees