Technical Product Engineering Lead

At Two Six Technologies we build deploy and implement innovative products that solve the worlds most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust we push the boundaries of whats possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.

Overview of Opportunity

Two Six Technologies is looking for a Technical Product Engineering Lead to join our team in Arlington Virginia. This person will serve as the technical team lead for one of our hardware security products. They will own the end-to-end technical vision and design decisions that span hardware FPGA embedded firmware and addition to setting technical direction you will be a hands-on team member working alongside other passionate motivated engineers across hardware FPGA and software disciplines. You will help rapidly transition new prototype products to larger-scale production in service of important national security missions.

Responsibilities Include:

• Serve as the technical team lead owning the end-to-end system architecture and technical roadmap across hardware FPGA embedded firmware and software. Lead the engineering team through key architectural and design tradeoff decisions across hardware/FPGA/embedded/software boundaries ensuring a cohesive secure system design.
• Act as the primary technical point of contact and decision-maker for the product.
• Lead the planning and execution of a group of tasks associated with one or more technical projects or functions managing task prioritization and schedule management.
• Provide technical guidance direction and mentorship to engineering team members.
• Mature proof-of-concept R&D technology to operational fieldable solutions.
• Develop testing strategies and lead the implementation of unit integration and hardware-in-loop test regimens to ensure high reliability and resilience in delivered products.
• Lead the effort to minimize maintenance overhead of a growing product suite by applying scalable and modular design methodologies.
• Engage in technical exchanges with transition partners and key stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience serving as a technical lead architect or similar role leading engineering work across one or more disciplines (e.g. hardware FPGA and software)
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer/Electrical Engineering or related technical domain
• Minimum of 7 years of experience with two or more of the following modern programming languages: Python C C Embedded C Rust Go
• Strong experience with Embedded Linux including Yocto-based build systems
• Linux kernel development experience (drivers subsystems or kernel-space debugging)
• Experience working alongside FPGA and hardware teams
• Experience with testing CI/CD pipelines and virtual machine test ranges
• Experience deploying secure systems (e.g. secure boot disk encryption key management)
• Familiarity applying classical cryptographic algorithms (RSA ECDSA AES SHA).
• Strong leadership and project management skills with the ability to mentor junior engineers and drive technical execution.
• Ability to work on-site when required for hardware work in Arlington VA

Nice to haves:

• Experience developing and/or customizing bootloaders such as WolfBoot implementing secure firmware update using digital signatures
• Hands-on experience with PCIe (device drivers enumeration or hardware bring-up)
• Experience shipping and iterating on production software in customers hands
• Graduate degree in Computer Science Computer/Electrical Engineering or related Scientific Domain
• Familiarity with validation and/or certification frameworks such as FIPS 140-3 NIAP CSfC or others
• Familiarity with post-quantum cryptographic algorithms and their trade-offs in their applications

Security Clearance:

• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a DoD clearance up to Top Secret level

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