Senior Electrical Engineer - Clearance Upgrade Opportunity!

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking an Electrical Engineer to support our customer in the Quantico, Virginia area. For more than 30 years, we’ve partnered with customers to advance critical missions across the globe - providing innovative, reliable solutions for Intelligence, Defense, and Federal Civilian Agencies.

 

• Evaluates reliability of materials, properties and techniques used in production; plans, designs, and develops electronic parts, components, integrated circuitry, mechanical systems, equipment and packaging, optical systems and/or DSP systems.
• Under general direction, designs and develops equipment, processes and systems that involve data networks, communications, and display.
• Analyzes equipment specifications and process requirements to conceive a practical design.
• Determines feasibility from technical and economic perspectives.
• Coordinates and consults with research engineers or scientists and customer representatives to resolve design problems.
• Develops and maintains technical procedures, documentation, and manuals. Compiles and analyzes operational data and directs tests to establish standard for new designs or modifications to existing equipment, systems, or processes.
• Research, identify and exploit hardware vulnerabilities
• Perform hardware failure analysis, to include researching methods to repair damaged hardware components for the purpose of extracting information.
• Perform advanced hardware exploitation to circumvent security on hardware, utilizing hardware-based encryption, locking, or other security
• Analyze hardware and software core elements to properly organize raw binary structured data retrieved from the hardware level.
• Perform analysis of wired and wireless network traffic using Wireshark or other compatible protocol analyzer.
• Perform reverse engineering.

Qualifications

• Position requires an active Top Secret clearance with ability to upgrade to TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.
• Requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field with 8 years of experience; an additional 4 years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• 4+ years of experience reverse engineering of electronic circuits.
• 4+ years' experience with hardware design and layout.
• 4+ years' experience designing, developing, and testing printed circuit board (PCB) projects.
• 3+ years' experience with system level buses and interfaces (12C, USB, JTAG, HID, etc.).
• 4+ years' experience with test equipment such as oscilloscope, logic analyzers, hardware debuggers, and other tools to monitor and analyze hardware.
• Capable of low-level processor programming and configuration (assembly level).
• 2+ years' experience of performing advanced hardware exploitation to circumvent security on hardware, utilizing hardware-based encryption, locking, or other security.

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.