Electrical Engineer

Parra Consulting Group, Inc. is seeking an Deployable Electrical Engineer to provide engineering support located in Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland. This successful candidate will be responsible for the following: • Assist in engineering discipline activities for conducting system, subsystem and component level, reverse engineering, replications, and validation. • Provide hands-on RF collection, characterization, and reverse engineering of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) equipment and components. • Provide hands-on technical forensic exploitation support for technical intelligence (TECHINT), media exploitation (MEDEX), cell phone exploitation (CELLEX), electronic exploitation (ELEX), and other unique exploitation missions. • Write draft characterization reports and information tables based on requirements Qualifications Required: • ActiveTop-Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain SCI. • BA/BS in Electrical Engineering and 3 years of experience (OR) Associates degree and 6 years of experience (OR) High School and 8 years of experience • Experience in Schematic capture and Printed Circuit Board (PCB) layout. • Electronic and/or RF experience with testing with related equipment. • Understanding of RF communications, with emphasis on characterization of electronic circuits. • Experience using benchtop RF equipment including Signal Generators, Spectrum Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, and other equipment. • Perform standard RF measurements (e.g.,?occupied bandwidth, average power, pulse width) using the previously?listed test equipment. • Experience synthesizing and generating various types of RF waveforms using arbitrary waveform generators. Qualifications Desired: • • Experience in reverse engineering electronic devices from start to finish. • Experience in reverse engineering electronic components and circuit boards. • Experience with soldering and re-working (e.g. through-hole, surface mount, cable assemblies, wire harnesses). • General RF or electronic domain design or test experience. • Basic MATLAB (and other basic programming / scripting) skills should be able to apply digital processing techniques to communication signals. Techniques include digital filtering, sample rate conversion, frequency/phase estimation, demodulation, carrier recovery, timing recovery, channel equalization, pulse shaping, and forward error correction. • Experience working with embedded systems such as Arduino and writing programs leveraging the SPI bus to configure and analyze various chipsets