Hardware Engineer

VTG Defense
United States, Maryland, Hanover
Sep 24, 2025
Overview Triaplex, Inc. (A wholly owned subsidiary of VTG) is seeking a Hardware Engineer to join our SIGINT team. The successful candidate will work on-site working with RF schematics, along with testing and installing hardware. What will you do? Responsibilities: 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 to include servers, network devices, transmission media, storage devices, user interface devices, and special processors 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; assesses and documents 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 Prepare installation guides, field test procedures, and troubleshooting guides Organize and directs hardware installations across multiple sites Design and verify test ha 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 improvementss Do you have what it takes? Required Qualifications Active and Current TS/SCI with Poly; Poly Date within the last seven (7) years Required Skills: -- Technician that has experience with wiring RF systems based on a schematic -- Familiar with hardware installation -- Familiar with electronic test equipment and electronic system trouble-shooting -- Ten (10) years of experience as a HE analyzing complex hardware systems for SIGINT solutions is required. -- Bachelor's degree in Communications Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional hardware engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.