Fire Protection Engineer

Overview

• MC3 Technologies is a Hawaii-born defense technology and integration company serving defense, federal, and commercial clients across the Pacific and beyond.
• We bring cybersecurity, physical security, systems integration, software, and facility delivery together under one roof, so the systems our customers depend on are designed, built, and accredited right the first time.
• Wherever we work, we grow local talent and invest in our people as much as in our technology.
• How we move: MC3 is an agile, fast-growing company with small teams that have real ownership, decisions made close to the work, and modern tools, including AI, built into how we deliver.
• If you want your work to matter quickly and to grow with a company that is still being built, this is the place.
• Engineering at MC3: our engineers design, review, and support delivery on fast-moving facility and infrastructure projects, working side by side with builders and our cyber and software teams so systems get built and accredited without rework.

The Opportunity

• The Fire Protection Engineer designs, reviews, and serves as project engineer for life safety, suppression, and fire alarm systems. On DoD work this engineer must meet DoD's qualified fire protection engineer requirements.
• Location: Remote or hybrid from Honolulu, with travel to project sites as needed
• Type: Full-time or part-time (W-2)
• Reports to: Principal and CTO (interim), working with MC3's design lead
• Clearance: Clearable to Secret or higher

Responsibilities

• Develop designs and design packages in support of the designer of record on prototype and design-build projects, and review designs by others
• Serve as project engineer: prepare submittals and shop drawings, manage RFIs, coordinate design changes with the builder, verify field conditions, staff quality control roles, and support testing and commissioning
• Review fire protection and life safety designs against federal and DoD fire protection and life safety standards and national fire codes
• Review fire alarm and mass notification network connections that fall under FRCS cybersecurity requirements
• Review in rolling, over-the-shoulder sessions as the design evolves; turn comments with criteria citations and fixes in 48 to 72 hours, in the client's review system
• Use MC3-approved, secure AI tools to check designs against criteria, compare submittals to specifications, and draft comments, then verify every result before it goes out
• Support cybersecurity accreditation: collect system inventories, diagrams, and configuration data, and help scan and harden control and security systems

Qualifications

• Professional Engineer license, fire protection
• 5+ years in fire protection design or review
• Meets DoD's qualified fire protection engineer requirements
• Has designed or reviewed fire protection systems on at least two DoD projects
• Willing to travel to project sites across the Pacific and other locations as the construction schedule requires
• Preferred: Experience as a DoD fire protection engineer
• Preferred: Mass notification and ESS integration experience
• Preferred: Can review across a second discipline (for example, electrical and controls, or telecom and ESS)
• Preferred: OTA prototype, progressive design-build, or rapid-delivery project experience
• Helpful but not required: USACE Construction Quality Management (CQM) certificate, NICET, a commissioning certification, or Security+

Engagement Details

• Citizenship: US citizenship required
• Clearance: Able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance or higher
• Work arrangement: Full-time or part-time W-2
• Part-time W-2 pay: about $58 to $77 per hour (hourly equivalent of the full-time base)
• Travel: Required for every role. Travel to project sites across the Pacific and other locations as the construction schedule requires, with a valid passport. MC3 provides all logistics, travel, and relocation support and allowances
• How design review roles work: rolling reviews alongside the design team, 48 to 72 hour comment turnaround, AI-assisted engineering on secure tools, and willingness to step outside your primary discipline or travel to project sites as the build requires
• DoD familiarity: working knowledge of the DoD criteria, processes, and requirements that apply to the role, such as federal and DoD design and construction standards, design and submittal review, RMF and cybersecurity, security and site access, and contract deliverables
• Training: MC3 trains every hire in agile design-build delivery, rolling reviews, and AI-assisted engineering on MC3-approved secure tools; prior experience with these is a plus, not a requirement
• MC3 Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or protected veteran status