We are looking for you to join our team as a Digital Engineer based out of our Rancho Carmel or Spectrum Center campuses in San Diego, CA.
What You'll Get to Do:
As an Electrical / Digital Engineer at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.
At the Northrop Grumman San Diego campus our Advanced Digital Design organization creates the next generation of communications and signal processing systems and will take ideas from concept to working systems aboard the world’s most advanced platforms. We design in our campus of labs and on-site advanced manufacturing just minutes from the beach and everything for which Southern California is famous.
This is work that matters and a career that can take you places. If you have hands-on experience in FPGA Development with VHDL, apply today.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for research, design, and development for digital designs associated with multi-function software defined radios, as well as automated test equipment
- Work with evaluation boards to test proposed designs
- Support the implementation of digital FPGA hardware architecture and algorithms
- Collaborate with Systems Engineering to ensure firmware design meets system level requirements
- Review designs and analysis
- May lead a team of Digital VHDL engineers
This position may be considered at a higher grade based on the requirements below.
Basic Qualifications Principal Digital Engineer:
- 5 years of relevant professional experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline; 3 years with Masters; 0 years with a PhD
- Must have hands on FPGA design experience with VHDL within the past 3 years
- US Citizenship is required in order to obtain and maintain security clearance
- Clearance: Candidate must currently have, and be able to maintain an active U.S. Government DOD Secret Clearance
Basic Qualifications Sr. Principal Digital Engineer:
- 9 years of relevant professional experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline; 7 years with Masters; 4 years with a PhD
- Must have hands on FPGA design experience with VHDL within the past 3 years
- US Citizenship is required in order to obtain and maintain security clearance
- Clearance: Candidate must currently have, and be able to maintain an active U.S. Government DOD Secret Clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with leading and mentoring a team
- Experience with DSP, MATLAB, and SimuLink
- Experience with VHDL design for Software Defined Radios
- Experience with AMD/Xilinx 7 (Zynq, Kintex and Ultrascale) or Versal family of devices.
- Experience with Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools: Vivado, Quartus, QuestaSim.
- Knowledgeable in FPGA physical constraints and achieving timing closure.
- Experience with board or system level debug using test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
- Generation of Test Benches and support of formal VHDL Verification
- Clearance: Ability to meet enhanced security review criteria for higher level clearances.