Description

At the Northrop Grumman Northern California 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 offer a wide variety of professional development opportunities, mentorship by senior engineers, and access to cutting-edge tools and technologies like Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Software-Defined Radios (SDRs). We seek degreed electrical or computer engineering engineers with hands-on experience in FPGA Design and Verification with VHDL.

We are looking for you to join our team as a Staff Digital Engineer based in McClellan, CA.

What You'll Get to Do:

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for research, design, and development for digital designs associated with multi-function software defined radios
• 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

Basic Qualifications for Staff Digital Engineer:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and 12 years of related experience, or a master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 10 years of related experience, or PhD in a STEM discipline with 8 years of experience 
• Must be a US Citizen in order to meet the security clearance requirement 
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance
• FPGA design experience with VHDL or Verilog
• Experience with AMD/Xilinx 7 (Zynq, Kintex and Ultrascale) or Versal family of devices
• Experience with Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools such as Vivado and QuestaSim
• Experience with board or system level debug using test equipment and internal hardware analyzers
• Knowledgeable in FPGA physical constraints and achieving timing closure
• Generation of Test Benches
• Experience in leading junior Digital Engineers on complex designs.

Preferred Qualifications for Staff Digital Engineer:

• Experience with VHDL
• Experience with DSP and MATLAB
• Support of formal VHDL Verification
• Active/Current Secret Clearance or higher level

What We Can Offer You:

Northrop Grumman provides a comprehensive benefits package and a work environment which encourages your growth and supports the mutual success of our people and our company. Northrop Grumman benefits give you the
flexibility and control to choose the benefits that make the most sense for you and your family.

Your benefits will include the following: Health Plan, Savings Plan, Paid Time Off and Additional Benefits including Education Assistance, Training and Development, 9/80 Work Schedule (where available), and much more!