Power Infrastructure Engineer

Nightwing•Sterling, VA

3d•$122,000 - $253,000•Onsite

About The Position

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Nightwing is looking for a Power Infrastructure Engineer to provide subject matter expertise and engineering support to a US Government program near the McLean area. This person will join a multidisciplinary team composed of chemists, material scientists, mechanical/electrical engineers, aerospace, and cyber engineers. The work environment is a very collegial atmosphere with ever-changing technical challenges that elicit excitement and challenge with each new day. The Power Infrastructure Engineer will serve as a member of a team responsible for monitoring and facilitating technical development and production projects being performed for a government customer. Job duties include ensuring that system requirements and specifications are consistent with operational deployment environments, recommending innovative solutions for technical and operational problems, monitoring and documenting component and system tests, ensuring compliance with Government program management practices, supporting program control gates and engineering review boards, and authoring and reviewing project documentation. The Power Infrastructure Engineer will serve as a technical subject matter expert for a variety of power infrastructure system projects. Experience and support in the following areas is a necessity: Roles and responsibilities center around quickly responding to client knowledge gaps by educating oneself followed by training/briefing the government task managers, as well as internal customer departments, on the relevant technologies. The ultimate goal in the power infrastructure area is to help external contractors identify technical approaches and develop, test, and build capabilities to counter technical advances being made by foreign entities. Duties will include, but are not limited to: Provide technical expertise on electronic equipment and components Communicate complex technical topics effectively to an audience with a broad set of backgrounds Evaluate trends in aerospace industry and supporting microelectronic industry to propose strategic technology developments Provide customer training and technology transfer Review and evaluate relevant information and intelligence provided by client to identify technical vulnerabilities in power and control systems, specifically focused on sub-systems or its components Collaborate with internal customers on defining research requirements and strategic mission objectives Identify/Eliminate system vulnerabilities Review external contractor/vendor technical proposals, experimental results, deliverables, and final reports Support customer test activities Review contractor test bed facility documentation and experimental test plans Prepare, and often deliver, briefing materials to mid-level and senior client management Perform troubleshooting Review technical specifications Conduct tests, perform quality assurance inspections, and assess test data Support Customer Review Board Anomaly resolution Background in critical infrastructure, power systems, and technical security measures Robust experience conducting technical hardware evaluations, reverse engineering systems to identify its function with limited documentation and assessing vulnerabilities Experience working with DOE laboratories Experience briefing technical information to a non-technical audience and producing clear documentation of their technical analysis CONUS travel to government contractor facilities (one week per month) OCONUS travel (average 1-2x per year) Support installation and deployment opportunities

Requirements

Minimum 5 years of related experience and Bachelor’s degree (preferably Electrical Engineering, Physics)
5+ years of experience in electrical component design and/or system operations; hands-on field experience is highly desired.
Knowledge of system test and validation processes
Ability to reverse engineer
Experience with root cause analysis and troubleshooting
Experience with vulnerability assessment and risk management
Excellent communication skills
Team-oriented
Willingness to become acquainted with new technology
Configuration management experience
Must have TS/SCI security clearance with Poly on day one and be eligible for crossover.
Background in critical infrastructure, power systems, and technical security measures
Robust experience conducting technical hardware evaluations, reverse engineering systems to identify its function with limited documentation and assessing vulnerabilities
Experience working with DOE laboratories
Experience briefing technical information to a non-technical audience and producing clear documentation of their technical analysis

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree
Experience with project portfolio management to help balance strategic and quick reaction capabilities within budget constraints and windows of opportunity
Ability to work under tight deadlines
Understanding the global procurement supply chain of electrical components, equipment, and instrumentation
Ability to predict system-level performance implications of minor technical modifications
Flexibility to adjust technical direction as intelligence picture changes, or becomes more defined
Help define initial scope and assess technical feasibility of proposed development efforts

Responsibilities

Provide technical expertise on electronic equipment and components
Communicate complex technical topics effectively to an audience with a broad set of backgrounds
Evaluate trends in aerospace industry and supporting microelectronic industry to propose strategic technology developments
Provide customer training and technology transfer
Review and evaluate relevant information and intelligence provided by client to identify technical vulnerabilities in power and control systems, specifically focused on sub-systems or its components
Collaborate with internal customers on defining research requirements and strategic mission objectives
Identify/Eliminate system vulnerabilities
Review external contractor/vendor technical proposals, experimental results, deliverables, and final reports
Support customer test activities
Review contractor test bed facility documentation and experimental test plans
Prepare, and often deliver, briefing materials to mid-level and senior client management
Perform troubleshooting
Review technical specifications
Conduct tests, perform quality assurance inspections, and assess test data
Support Customer Review Board
Anomaly resolution