SYSTEM ENGINEER - Hardware Modeling and Diagnostics- 20+ yrs of Experience - TS/SCI w/Poly clearance in Annapolis Junction
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System Engineer - Hardware Modeling and Diagnostics - 20+ yrs of Experience - TS/SCI w/Poly Clearance
Halogen Engineering Group is looking for a System Engineer who can support complex system design, integration, monitoring, and diagnostics by applying deep understanding of both physical and logical system architectures. This role analyzes user requirements and high-level operational concepts to derive system requirements, leads design and development activities, and provides technical leadership across the system life cycle. The Systems Engineer also leverages hardware modeling and diagnostics (HMD) monitoring tools to triage issues efficiently and collaborates with developers and analysts to enhance monitoring capabilities.
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
Travel Required: No
Shift: Day
Remote Type: Onsite
Security Clearance: Current TS/SCI
Polygraph: Required (Must be less than 5 years old)
Salary Range
The projected compensation range for this position is 221K to 239K (annualized USD).
Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements.
Capabilities
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the system’s end-to-end physical and logical architecture to effectively apply hardware modeling and diagnostics (HMD) monitoring tools.
• Leverage HMD monitoring tools to identify, narrow, and triage system issues, directing detailed problems to the appropriate diagnosticians or vendors for resolution.
• Develop deep expertise in the HMD product and monitoring architecture to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities to enhance diagnostic effectiveness.
• Collaborate with developers, analysts, and monitoring tool owners to propose, design, and implement improvements to monitoring solutions, increasing system reliability, and operational visibility.
• Analyze system logs, metrics, and telemetry—primarily using Splunk—to determine root causes, understand system behavior, and identify anomalous conditions.
• Interpret hardware and system performance data, including graphs and trends, to diagnose system behavior and inform troubleshooting activities.
• Guide the development of Splunk dashboards, health indicators, and diagnostic scripts to monitor critical data flows, system performance, and failure signatures.
• Review and evaluate relevant technical documentation; ask clarifying questions and build expertise in hardware design to support accurate and timely system diagnosis.
• Provide recommendations for testing strategies and develop documentation of issue signatures to enable and accelerate diagnostics development.
• Collaborate closely with diagnosis teams and external vendors to troubleshoot complex hardware and system-level issues.
• Track issues through resolution using JIRA, validate fixes, and confirm that corrective actions resolve the underlying problems.
Requirements
Required Skills
• Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following technical domains, with a strong willingness and aptitude to expand expertise as required: System Architecture and Design, Power Systems, Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design, Cooling Infrastructure, Signal Integrity, and System Reliability.
• Proven experience in system health monitoring, diagnostics, and operational support for complex hardware and integrated systems.
• Ability to read, interpret, and analyze detailed hardware documentation, including specifications, data sheets, schematics, and design artifacts. • Strong analytical and troubleshooting mindset, with a natural curiosity and willingness to ask probing questions to identify root causes and systemic issues.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to engage vendors and internal stakeholders to extract detailed technical information related to system design, performance, and anomalies.
• Experience with, or demonstrated ability to quickly learn, system monitoring and diagnostics tools, including but not limited to Chiplink, Splunk, Ipsci, and iostat.
• Self-motivated and capable of completing complex technical tasks with minimal supervision while managing priorities effectively.
• Ability to clearly convey technical findings, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences through written documentation and oral briefings.
• Proven ability to work effectively within cross-functional teams, including engineering, diagnostics, operations, and vendor partners.
• Comfortable learning and adapting to new tools, technologies, and processes as mission and system needs evolve.
Qualifications
Twenty (20) years’ experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Bachelor’s degree in Math, Science, Engineering, Statistics, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Twenty four (24) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
Benefits
CareFirst Insurance
Medical Plans
- Three available medical plans–2 Platinum PPO Plans ($0 Deductible) and 1 HSA Plan ($1500 deductible)
- Halogen pays 100% Medical Premium Costs up to $25,000
- CareFirst Wellness Rewards Program
Dental Plan
- Halogen pays 50% of the plan costs
Vision Plan
- Halogen pays 100% of the plan costs
401K Retirement Plan
· 10% contribution paid by the company, automatically vested and paid in each pay period.
Life Insurance, AD&D, Short and Long Term Coverage
Paid Time Off
· 20 Paid Time Off Days
· 6 Federal Holidays
· 5 Floating Holidays
Bonuses
· Based on performance and billable hours
Halogen Engineering Group does not discriminate in employment on the basis of , , , (including and ), , political affiliation, , marital status, , genetic information, , membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.