Staff Engineer, System Test Network (R6030)
Washington, D.C. · USD 144,400-216,000 / year · Onsite · Posted Sep 24, 2026
At a glance
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Washington, D.C.
- Salary
- USD 144,400-216,000 / year
About the role
- The Staff Engineer, System Test Network will design, build, and maintain scalable network architectures for HIL laboratories, integration environments, and simulation systems.
- This role involves developing networking software and automation tools to ensure repeatable, reviewable, and recoverable lab network deployments.
- The engineer will partner with Solutions & Integration teams to reproduce deployed networking issues and provide second-line support for customer demonstrations and evaluations.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, configure, and maintain scalable network architectures for HIL laboratories and shared test infrastructure.
- Define and manage Layer 2 and Layer 3 configurations including VLANs, routing, multicast, QoS, and redundancy.
- Develop networking software, configuration-as-code, and automation tools for repeatable lab network deployment.
- Integrate switches, routers, firewalls, and tactical SDR platforms into representative HIL and program network environments.
- Develop and execute network test plans measuring connectivity, throughput, latency, jitter, and performance under load.
- Build network observability capabilities using packet capture, telemetry, logs, and automated health checks.
- Reproduce, isolate, and resolve complex network and distributed-system issues using diagnostic tools.
- Partner with Solutions & Integration teams to translate operational feedback into representative HIL network configurations.
- Maintain authoritative network baselines, IP assignments, hardware inventories, and architecture documentation.
- Integrate network configuration and test automation into source-control and CI/CD workflows.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 3 years with a Master's degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong knowledge of Ethernet and TCP/IP networking including switching, routing, subnetting, VLANs, multicast, and QoS.
- Hands-on experience configuring and troubleshooting managed switches, routers, firewalls, and Linux hosts.
- Proficiency in Python or a comparable language for network automation and infrastructure tooling.
- Experience developing and executing structured network or system tests using tools like Wireshark, tcpdump, and iperf.
- Experience supporting complex HIL, integration-lab, or test-infrastructure environments.
- Experience with source control, configuration management, and disciplined change-control practices.
- Strong analytical, communication, and customer-service skills.
- Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience supporting aerospace, defense, robotics, or autonomous systems programs.
- Experience with HIL, SIL, or VIL test environments and real-time simulation.
- Advanced experience with multicast routing, precision time protocol, or high-availability design.
- Experience with network-automation tools such as Ansible, Netmiko, NAPALM, or Terraform.
- Familiarity with enterprise network hardware from Cisco, Arista, Juniper, or NVIDIA.
- Experience with virtualization, containers, Docker, Kubernetes, or software-defined networking.
- Experience implementing network security controls or DoD security and hardening requirements.
- Experience configuring and troubleshooting tactical MANET and mesh-radio systems like Persistent Systems MPU5 or Silvus StreamCaster.
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity
- Temporary benefits package (for temporary employees after 60 days)
Workplace
- Role is based in Washington, D.C.
Skills
- Python
- Ethernet
- TCP/IP
- Wireshark
- Tcpdump
- Iperf
- Ansible
- Netmiko
- NAPALM
- Terraform
- Docker
- Kubernetes
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- Linux
- Cisco
- Arista
