Requisition Number: 30973
Required Travel: 26 - 50%
Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt
Anticipated Salary Range: $76,822.00 - $115,000.00
Security Clearance: Ability to Obtain
Level of Experience: Mid
This opportunity resides with Warfare Systems (WS), a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. Warfare Systems comprises cyber and mission IT; electronic warfare; and C5ISR systems.
HII works within our nation’s intelligence and cyber operations communities to defend our interests in cyberspace and anticipate emerging threats. Our capabilities in cybersecurity, network architecture, reverse engineering, software and hardware development uniquely enable us to support sensitive missions for the U.S. military and federal agency partners.
Leadership at HII – Mission Technologies
HII’s Leadership Capability Framework defines the standard of excellence expected of all leaders across Mission Technologies. Leaders are accountable for modeling these capabilities and building them within their teams:
- Know & Grow Your People – Develop talent, empower teams, and build an inclusive environment.
- Build Relationships – Strengthen trust, collaboration, and cross-functional partnerships.
- Take Ownership – Drive accountability, execution excellence, and results.
- Customer First – Anticipate mission needs and deliver value to our partners.
- Shape the Future – Inspire innovation and align work with strategic priorities.
- Act with Urgency – Make informed decisions and move with purpose.
These capabilities define how leaders inspire teams, deliver results, and shape the future of Mission
Job Description
HII Mission Technologies is seeking a technically skilled software-focused Field Support Engineer / Representative to support the deployment, integration, operation, troubleshooting, and demonstration of advanced Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) software capabilities.
This position serves as the technical bridge between the GRIMM software engineering team and operational users. The successful candidate will possess a strong working knowledge of Linux-based software systems, networking, software configuration, scripting, system diagnostics, and application troubleshooting and will apply those skills in laboratory, integration, training, demonstration, and field environments.
This role is best suited for an individual with software engineering, systems integration, DevSecOps, IT/networking, or technically oriented military EW/SIGINT experience who enjoys working directly with users and solving software and system-level problems in operational environments.
The Field Support Engineer will work closely with software developers, systems engineers, EW subject-matter experts, program management, and government customers to ensure GRIMM capabilities are correctly configured, integrated, understood, and successfully employed during customer events and operational demonstrations.
Essential Job Responsibilities
- Deploy and configure EW software: Install, configure, update, and validate GRIMM software applications and associated services across development, integration, demonstration, and field environments.
- Troubleshoot software: Diagnose application failures, software configuration issues, service failures, communications problems, data-flow issues, and software/hardware interface problems.
- Linux system administration: Perform routine Linux administration supporting fielded systems, including process/service management, permissions, file systems, networking, software packages, system logs, and configuration files.
- Software release support: Support deployment and verification of software releases, patches, configuration updates, and mission-specific software builds. Verify installation integrity and document deployed configurations.
- Log and diagnostic analysis: Collect and analyze application, operating-system, network, and system logs to identify root causes and provide actionable information to software engineering teams.
- Networking and connectivity: Configure and troubleshoot IP-based communications between GRIMM components, sensors, user interfaces, and external systems using tools such as SSH, ping, traceroute, tcpdump/Wireshark, and related network utilities.
- Scripting and automation: Develop or modify basic Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar scripts to automate configuration, deployment, diagnostic, data-management, and system-support tasks.
- System integration: Support integration of GRIMM software with RF/EW sensors, external data sources, networks, command-and-control applications, and other government or third-party systems.
- Field demonstrations and exercises: Configure and operate GRIMM capabilities during integration events, demonstrations, exercises, experimentation, and operational assessments. Troubleshoot problems in real time to maintain event objectives.
- Software verification: Execute acceptance procedures, regression checks, system health checks, and operational workflows following software updates or configuration changes.
- User support and instruction: Provide hands-on instruction to operators and technical users covering software operation, configuration, system startup/shutdown, mission workflows, troubleshooting, and basic system administration.
- Engineering reach-back: Reproduce field-discovered software issues, collect appropriate logs and diagnostic artifacts, document conditions and steps to reproduce, and coordinate resolution with software and systems engineering teams.
- Issue tracking: Document software defects, field observations, enhancement requests, and integration issues using the program’s issue-tracking/configuration-management environment.
- Technical documentation: Develop and maintain installation procedures, configuration guides, troubleshooting procedures, operator documentation, release notes, quick-reference materials, and field-support knowledge.
- Customer interface: Serve as a technically credible onsite representative capable of communicating directly with government operators, engineers, and program personnel while maintaining close coordination with the GRIMM development team.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field; OR 3 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; OR Associate’s degree and 9 years relevant experience. (Relevant professional experience may be considered in lieu of formal degree requirements where appropriate)
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance.
- Linux operating systems, preferably including command-line administration and troubleshooting.
- Installation, configuration, deployment, and troubleshooting of software applications.
- TCP/IP networking and network troubleshooting.
- Python, Bash, PowerShell, or comparable scripting experience.
- Reading and interpreting application and operating-system logs.
- SSH/SCP/SFTP and other common remote-administration tools.
- Software configuration and version management.
- Basic understanding of software development and release lifecycles.
- Experience troubleshooting distributed or networked software systems.
- Ability to differentiate between application, operating-system, network, configuration, and hardware-related failures.
- Familiarity with Git or similar source/version-control systems.
- Experience using issue-tracking and collaboration environments such as Jira, Confluence, GitLab, or comparable tools.
- Strong technical documentation and communication skills.
- Ability to travel approximately 40% CONUS/OCONUS in support of integration events, exercises, demonstrations, and customer activities.
Preferred Requirements
- CompTIA Certification (Sec+, Network+, CCNA) and/or Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA).
- Previous Field Support Engineer, Systems Integration Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, Software Support Engineer, Mission Systems Engineer, or technically oriented FSR experience.
- Experience supporting DoD software-intensive R&D or rapid-prototyping programs.
- Experience deploying developmental software into operational or representative field environments.
- Familiarity with Agile software development and working directly with development teams.
- Active Secret clearance or higher.
- Python scripting for automation, diagnostics, data processing, or system integration.
- Linux system administration in Ubuntu, Red Hat/RHEL, Rocky Linux, or comparable environments.
- Docker/containerized applications and basic container troubleshooting.
- Git/GitLab and CI/CD concepts.
- REST APIs, JSON, XML, message-based interfaces, or other machine-to-machine integration mechanisms.
- VMware or other virtualization environments.
- Network analysis using Wireshark/tcpdump.
- SQL or basic database administration/querying.
- Cybersecurity hardening and secure software configuration.
- Software deployment in disconnected, restricted, classified, or bandwidth-constrained environments.
- Distributed/networked sensor systems.
- Software-defined radio or RF/EW applications.
- Data visualization, signal-processing applications, or geospatial/user-interface software.
- DoD tactical networks, mission systems, or C2 environments.
Relevant backgrounds may include:
- Electromagnetic/Electronic Warfare
- SIGINT / ELINT
- Electromagnetic Warfare Support (ES)
- Spectrum monitoring/management
- RF sensing, geolocation, and direction-finding
- Software-defined radio
- Distributed sensor systems
- Intelligence or mission-processing software
- DoD command-and-control or tactical software systems
The listed salary range for this role is intended as a good faith estimate based on the role's location, expectations, and responsibilities. When extending an offer, HII's Mission Technologies division takes a variety of factors into consideration which include, but are not limited to, the role's function and a candidate's education or training, work experience, and key skills.
Together we are working to ensure a future where everyone can be free and thrive.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
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