Senior​/Principal Solutions Architect - Advanced Engagement Systems, Onsite

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What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking a Solutions Architect who can fulfill the role of a platform and environment developer. For Platform development, the staff member will design, develop and maintain the underlying platform infrastructure on a variety of embedded RF hardware solutions which run Digital Signal Processing code on edge Linux systems. Ability to load, configure, and utilize operating systems, develop platform automation tools, design and configure networks, run static code analyzers, implement cyber security best practices, scripting and software development are all skills needed for the position.

This role should have both breadth of knowledge and experience with multiple domains such as digital hardware (CPU, GPU, FPGA), Firmware, and Software. In this position, the Computer Engineer will interact with teammates, internal project leadership, and possibly external stakeholders to determine requirements and then work both with the team and individually to translate the requirements into integrated and secure automated solutions.

They may be responsible for prototyping and documenting possible solutions within the project framework.

For Environment development, staff member will configure and manage RF laboratory equipment to include test beds comprised of full systems (User Interface server, embedded RF processing digital electronics, and RF Front End systems). This includes ensuring standup and maintain of development computers, servers running system code, and networking with the RF laboratory. Lastly continued improvement to the existing development environment (Gitlab and Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment technologies) are needed.

Participation in a team environment is expected. The environment is highly collaborative and team-centric with broad support for professional development, strategic and project innovation, and traditional training.

The successful candidate will have the ability to provide automated platform solutions by synergizing researching technology fundamentals, testing and evaluating those hypotheses in a controlled test environment and then planning and implementing those solutions to satisfy requirements. Artifacts provided by this methodology include:

State-of-the-art designs that are efficient, secure and meet present and future capacity.

Understand architecture specifications and detailed design documentation to provide automated solutions.

Planning and coordination of the installation and configuration of the solution.

The successful candidate must maintain and grow technical expertise in all areas of computing platforms including servers, storage, network devices, and security devices (SIEMs, ACSs, and firewalls), Operating Systems (Linux), and virtualization to facilitate:

Continuous platform operations and troubleshooting time-sensitive issues.

Evaluating and reporting on new platform technologies and…