Hardware Integration Specialist

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The Mechanical and Reliability Department provides innovative solutions for electronic prototypes designed for advanced sensing, communication, and navigation systems. Areas of expertise include ground, airborne and shipboard systems. Engineers from the group are critical to all aspects of prototype or system development beginning with conceptual design, continuing through detail design, system integration and test, fabrication, and environmental testing. We provide technical guidance through rigorous analytical, physical, and computational methods with data driven products to enhance decision making and risk management.

Roles & Responsibilities :

MITRE is seeking a hands-on Engineering Assistant / Hardware Integration Specialist to support the design, integration, modification, testing, and sustainment of prototype and operational electronic systems. This role is ideal for a technically versatile practitioner who can bridge lab operations, hardware fabrication, electronics troubleshooting, RF test support, logistics, and field experimentation.

The successful candidate will bring practical experience across electronic hardware integration, rapid prototyping, circuit analysis /debug, rework soldering, and precision test and measurement. This person will work closely with engineers and project teams to build, modify, evaluate, and transition hardware solutions in support of national security sponsors.

Key Responsibilities:

Support the integration, modification, and troubleshooting of modular electronic and RF hardware systems

Assess electronic prototype designs for viability and manufacturability

Independently analyze project scope, build/assemble electro-mechanical prototype hardware, make appropriate adjustments in the absence of detailed documentation

Perform equipment testing, integration, and RF test support for developmental systems

Troubleshoot complex design issues, linearity/noise challenges and implementation constraints to ensure robust prototypes

Support breadboard testing, schematic component selection, and bench-level circuit debug

Conduct hands-on activities such as soldering, cable fabrication and hardware salvage/repair

Assist with rapid prototyping efforts across electronics, packaging, and hardware system support

Provide operational support for fabrication labs, equipment calibration, and test environments

Coordinate logistics activities including equipment tracking, lab inventory, and purchasing

Prepare systems and hardware for field experiments, demonstrations, and sponsor engagements

Partner with multidisciplinary engineering teams to transition concepts into usable prototypes and technical capabilities

Document prototype hardware configurations, test procedures, integration findings, and sustainment recommendations

Provide technical guidance and mentorship for junior technical staff

Travel for field testing and demonstration support up to 20% time

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