Military Hire

Electronics EngineerAMERICAN SYSTEMS

  • Not-remote
  • Full-time
  • Total comp
    Expected total yearly pay with bonus and equity at target, including any base pay.
  • Salary
  • Indian Head, MD

Job Summary

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Engineering & Analysis, and Training. We are looking for a mission-driven Electronics Engineer with the curiosity and desire to investigate the functions and features if novel, advanced, electronics associated with various weaponized technologies. In this role, you will work state-side and in international locations reverse engineer electronic materials in support of a US Navy mission.



  • Be part of an established reverse engineering and digital forensicsteam with opportunity to grow.
  • Support a one of a kind command within the Department of War whose mission is to provide near real-time technical intelligence to tactical commanders, the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) community, service components, DoW, and National-level Intelligence Agencies.
  • Have opportunities to upgrade your skills by attending industry leading courses in areas such as embedded system forensic analysis.
  • Responsible for reporting and briefing critical finds to both military and DoW civilian leadership.
  • Conduct laboratory based analysis of electronic devices to understand the theory of operation and functionally.
  • Perform exploitation and reverse-engineering on various electrical components ranging from IED electronic components to advanced weapon systems.
  • Capture, characterize and identify electrical/electronic RF receiver and transmitter modules and circuit board characteristics, operating frequencies and power.
  • Identify electronic components visually, conduct research, provide information, develop accurate schematics of electronics systems using provided tools and techniques.
  • Analyze, demodulate and decode signals in order to extract intelligence data and develop standardized demodulation and decoding tools and techniques for commonly encountered signals.
  • Perform Electronic Data Recovery (EDR) of logical and physical data on cell phones and other media storage devices using hardware/software tools including Cellebrite UFED, XRY, FTK and other forensic tools and analyze EDR files to recover data that may be of investigative or intelligence value.
  • Produce storyboards and technical reports on captured data.
  • Maintain and document chain of custody of items and data.
  • Deploy to remote field locations on a regular or as needed basis to analyze devices or train partners in the processes associated with reverse engineering.