Power Infrastructure Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Power Infrastructure Engineer with Security Clearance
Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers' most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.

Nightwing ensures our customers succeed when addressing the world's biggest threats. Nightwing is looking for a Power Infrastructure Engineer to provide subject matter expertise and engineering support to a US Government program near the McLean area. This person will join a multidisciplinary team composed of chemists, material scientists, mechanical/electrical engineers, aerospace, and cyber engineers. The work environment is a very collegial atmosphere with ever-changing technical challenges that elicits excitement and challenge with each new day.

The Power Infrastructure Engineer will serve as a member of a team responsible for monitoring and facilitating technical development and production projects being performed for a government customer. Job duties include ensuring that system requirements and specifications are consistent with operational deployment environments, recommending innovative solutions for technical and operational problems, monitoring and documenting component and system tests, ensuring compliance with Government program management practices, supporting program control gates and engineering review boards, and authoring and reviewing project documentation.

The Power Infrastructure Engineer will serve as a technical subject matter expert for a variety of power infrastructure system projects. Experience and support in the following areas is a necessity:
Roles and responsibilities center around quickly responding to client knowledge gaps by educating oneself followed by training/briefing the government task managers, as well as internal customer departments, on the relevant technologies. The ultimate goal in the power infrastructure area is to help external contractors identify technical approaches and develop, test, and build capabilities to counter technical advances being made by foreign entities.

Duties will include, but are not limited to:
* Provide technical expertise on electronic equipment and components

* Communicate complex technical topics effectively to an audience with a broad set of backgrounds

* Evaluate trends in aerospace industry and supporting microelectronic industry to propose strategic technology developments

* Provide customer training and technology transfer

* Review and evaluate relevant information and intelligence provided by client to identify technical vulnerabilities in power and control systems, specifically focused on sub-systems or its components

* Collaborate with internal customers on defining research requirements and strategic mission objectives

* Identify/Eliminate system vulnerabilities

* Review external contractor/vendor technical proposals, experimental results, deliverables, and final reports

* Support customer test activities

* Review contractor test bed facility documentation and experimental test plans

* Prepare, and often deliver, briefing materials to mid-level and senior client management

* Perform troubleshooting

* Review technical specifications

* Conduct tests, perform quality assurance inspections, and assess test data

* Support Customer Review Board

* Anomaly resolution

* Background in critical infrastructure, power systems, and technical security measures
* Robust experience conducting technical hardware evaluations, reverse engineering systems to identify its function with limited documentation and assessing vulnerabilities
* Experience working with DOE laboratories
* Experience briefing technical information to a non-technical audience and producing clear documentation of their technical analysis
* CONUS travel to government contractor facilities (one week per month)

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