Exploitation Engineer / Technician
Job Category: Engineering
Time Type: Full time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Top Secret
Employee Type: Regular-Rotational Traveler
Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 50%
Type of Travel: Continental US
CACI is seeking an Exploitation Engineer / Technician with electronics engineer/senior electronics technician experience to provide support at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD.
More About the Role:
Electronics Exploitation Technician shall provide forensics and exploitation support to meet customer requirements.
The Exploitation Technician will serve in relation to the collection and handling of recovered electronics devices, ensuring that triage and technical exploitation occurs in accordance with organizational requirements. As the Subject Matter Expert, the candidate must be able to work independently in isolated work environments.
The candidate will also execute reach-back and coordination with CONUS-based engineering staff, as needed.
The candidate will be expected to generate forensics reporting from technical exploitation generated products and will respond to any associated analytical requirements.
This position may require OCONUS deployment, after requisite mission and technical orientation and training, to the CENTCOM and AFRICOM AORs. While deployed, responsibilities include installing, debugging, maintaining, upgrading of all assigned equipment as well as provide broad mission support, training, briefings, employing and fielding of the candidate's capability to include electrical forensics applications, tools, and systems.
This position will be available and willing to deploy to OCONUS for up to 6 months rotations.
What You'll Get to Do:
Perform hardware and software engineering to include research, testing/debugging, exploitation, quality control, and deployment.
Conduct electronic analyses of target devices, including functional analyses of the target devices, understand and describe how the target functions from an electronic perspective - basic signaling characteristics; voltage levels; electrical connections; electrical modifications to commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware; logic states; operating frequencies.
Publish reports and briefings in order to present characterization information, electronics vulnerabilities, and exploitation recommendations.
Work with a team to respond to RFI's and determine best consolidated solutions to problems.
Research new technologies and techniques.
Required Qualifications:
Must have an active TS/SCI.
BA/BS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field and3 years of experience or associate's degreeand 5yrs experience or HS diploma and 6yrs experience.
An understanding of RF communications, with a particular emphasis on complete characterization of electronic circuits.
Experience in electronics engineering.
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 previous listed test equipment.
Experience in synthesizing and generating various types of RF waveforms using and arbitrary waveform generator.
Experience in electronics exploitation.
Desired Qualifications:
BS in Electrical Engineering
Experience doing CELLEX, DOMEX, MEDEX and/or DRONE electronic exploitation
Previous experience working in OCONUS DoD forensic exploitation labs, to include FXL-C and ACME Labs
Experience in reverse engineering electronic devices from start to finish
Experience in reverse engineering electronic components and circuit boards.
Experience supporting exploitation and modeling and simulation tool development.
Working knowledge of software defined radios (SDR), such as the Ettus B210 and x310. Able to interface with such units in order to transmit or receiver RF signals.
Basic MATLAB, C++, or Python programming skills should be able to apply digital signal 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.
Previous OCONUS deployment experience.
Valid Passport with 2 years of validity.
What We Can Offer You:
We've been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post.
Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.
We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities.
We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solutions with the nation's highest priorities.
For over 60 years, the principles of CACI's unique, character-based culture have been the driving force behind our success.
Company Overview:
CACI is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.
Pay Range : There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits. Learn more here (https://careers.caci.com/global/en/employee-benefits)
The proposed salary range for this position is:
$75,200 - 158,100 USD
