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Northrop Grumman · 3 months ago

FPGA Design/Principal FPGA Design Engineer - R10207884

Rolling Meadows, IL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$94K/yr - $141K/yr

5+ years exp

Northrop Grumman is a leading company in technological advancements, seeking a FPGA/Principal FPGA Design Engineer to join their Navigation, Targeting, and Survivability Division. This role involves full life-cycle product development, focusing on the research, design, and development of digital hardware products, including electronic warfare and targeting systems.

AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Researches, design, develops, and tests a variety of electronic equipment and systems, including radar and radiation detection equipment; radio, television and other communications equipment and systems; circuitry components; analog and digital computers; and control and test equipment

Qualification

Digital circuit designFPGA technologiesPrototypingDebuggingModelingSimulationDocumentation control systemsTeam leadershipCommunication skillsProblem-solving

Required

Bachelors' degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) with a minimum 2 years of digital electronics design experience or a Master's degree in a STEM field

Digital circuit design experience, including simulation & schematic capture through test and integration

Prior hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex digital subsystems, such as complex circuit card development involving FPGAs, and/or embedded processors, and/or high-speed interfaces

Demonstrated ability to lead projects with 2 or less team members

Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications

Familiarity with documentation revision control and review systems similar to DOORS, ClearCase, and ClearQuest

US Citizenship

Must have interim secret clearance prior to starting. Once started, must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance

Bachelors' degree in a STEM field (Science, Engineering, Technology or Math) with a minimum of 5 years of digital electronics design experience or 3 years of digital electronics design experience with a Master's degree in a STEM field

Extensive digital circuit design experience, including simulation & schematic capture through test and integration

Extensive hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex digital subsystems, such as complex circuit card development involving FPGAs, and/or embedded processors, and/or high-speed interfaces

Demonstrated ability to lead projects with 2 or more team members

Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications

Familiarity with documentation, revision control and review systems similar to DOORS, ClearCase, and ClearQuest

US Citizenship

Must have interim secret clearance prior to starting. Once started, must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance

Preferred

Advanced degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with a minimum of 5 years of digital electronics design experience

Working knowledge of Electronic Warfare systems

Experience in Aerospace and/or Defense industries

Recent circuit card design experience utilizing circuit-related tools including Cadence Concept, Allegro, and/or Mentor DxDesigner, Expedition

Working experience with ClearCase/ClearQuest and DOORS Current Secret or Top-Secret Security Clearance

Proven skills to include team leadership, mentoring others, communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally, being adaptable, creative, collaborative and comfortable working independently and enjoys solving difficult problems