SYSTEM ENGINEER - Hardware Modeling and Diagnostics- 20+ yrs of Experience - TS/SCI w/Poly clearance

System Engineer - Hardware Modeling and Diagnostics - 20+ yrs of Experience - TS/SCI w/Poly Clearance

Halogen Engineering Group is looking for a System Engineer who can support complex system design, integration, monitoring, and diagnostics by applying deep understanding of both physical and logical system architectures. This role analyzes user requirements and high-level operational concepts to derive system requirements, leads design and development activities, and provides technical leadership across the system life cycle. The Systems Engineer also leverages hardware modeling and diagnostics (HMD) monitoring tools to triage issues efficiently and collaborates with developers and analysts to enhance monitoring capabilities.

Location: Annapolis Junction, MD

Travel Required: No

Shift: Day

Remote Type: Onsite

Security Clearance: Current TS/SCI

Polygraph: Required (Must be less than 5 years old)

Salary Range

The projected compensation range for this position is 221K to 239K (annualized USD).

Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements.

• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the system’s end-to-end physical and logical architecture to effectively apply hardware modeling and diagnostics (HMD) monitoring tools.
• Leverage HMD monitoring tools to identify, narrow, and triage system issues, directing detailed problems to the appropriate diagnosticians or vendors for resolution.
• Develop deep expertise in the HMD product and monitoring architecture to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities to enhance diagnostic effectiveness.
• Collaborate with developers, analysts, and monitoring tool owners to propose, design, and implement improvements to monitoring solutions, increasing system reliability, and operational visibility.
• Analyze system logs, metrics, and telemetry—primarily using Splunk—to determine root causes, understand system behavior, and identify anomalous conditions.
• Interpret hardware and system performance data, including graphs and trends, to diagnose system behavior and inform troubleshooting activities.
• Guide the development of Splunk dashboards, health indicators, and diagnostic scripts to monitor critical data flows, system performance, and failure signatures.
• Review and evaluate relevant technical documentation; ask clarifying questions and build expertise in hardware design to support accurate and timely system diagnosis.
• Provide recommendations for testing strategies and develop documentation of issue signatures to enable and accelerate diagnostics development.
• Collaborate closely with diagnosis teams and external vendors to troubleshoot complex hardware and system-level issues.
• Track issues through resolution using JIRA, validate fixes, and confirm that corrective actions resolve the underlying problems.
Requirements

Qualifications

Benefits

CareFirst Insurance

Medical Plans

• Three available medical plans–2 Platinum PPO Plans ($0 Deductible) and 1 HSA Plan ($1500 deductible)
  
• Halogen pays 100% Medical Premium Costs up to $25,000
  
• CareFirst Wellness Rewards Program
  

Dental Plan

• Halogen pays 50% of the plan costs
  

Vision Plan

• Halogen pays 100% of the plan costs
  

401K Retirement Plan

· 10% contribution paid by the company, automatically vested and paid in each pay period.

Life Insurance, AD&D, Short and Long Term Disability Coverage

Paid Time Off

· 20 Paid Time Off Days

· 6 Federal Holidays

· 5 Floating Holidays

Bonuses

· Based on performance and billable hours

Halogen Engineering Group does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.