Northrop Grumman Advanced Weapons has an opening for a FPGA Digital Design Engineer Level 4 to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This role will support the ARRGM-ER missile program within the Advanced Weapons Business Unit in Northridge, CA.
This position is required to be full-time, on-site in the Northridge, CA location. No remote/telework arrangement is available for this position. Applicants must have a current US Government Secret security clearance.
In this capacity, you will utilize your working knowledge of digital signal processing and digital interfaces to work on FPGA and ASIC Design across the full product life cycle process. 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.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, develop, modify and evaluate digital electronic parts, components or integrated circuitry for digital electronic equipment and other hardware systems.
Determine design approaches and parameters.
Analyze equipment to establish operating data, conduct experimental tests, and evaluate results.
Select components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability.
Review vendor capability to support product development.
Responsible for research, design, and development for complex high speed digital 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
Basic Qualifications – FPGA Design Engineer 4:
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline with 8+ years of digital design & verification engineering experience using industry standard simulation tools; or 6+ years with an MS degree
Must have hands on FPGA design experience with VHDL and/or Verilog within the past 6 years.
Experience with AMD/Xilinx and/or Intel/Altera SoC FPGAs.
Experience with Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools: Vivado, Quartus, and QuestaSim.Active US Government Secret security clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
Proficient in DSP algorithms and its implementation onto the FPGA using MATLAB and SimuLink.
Strong design skills in VHDL & Verilog.
Experience in FPGA physical constraints and achieving timing closure.
Experience in developing low-level FPGA requirements and developing verification procedures.
Background in RF design is a plus.
Experience with board or system level debug using test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic and spectrum analyzers, RF signal generator, etc.
Generation of complex test benches in Modelsim or Questasim to support formal Verification.
Familiarity with the VxWorks RTOS, its architecture and development tools is a plus.
Expertise in high-speed FPGA implementation such as AXI, DMA, PCIe, HSSI, DDR3, Ethernet, etc.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or another STEM discipline with 8+ years of digital design and verification engineering experience using industry-standard simulation tools
- Alternatively, a master's degree with 6+ years of digital design and verification engineering experience
- Hands-on FPGA design experience with VHDL and/or Verilog within the past six years
- Experience with AMD/Xilinx and/or Intel/Altera SoC FPGAs
- Experience with Vivado, Quartus, and QuestaSim EDA tools
- Active US Government Secret security clearance
- Proficiency implementing DSP algorithms on FPGAs using MATLAB and Simulink
- Strong VHDL and Verilog design skills
- Experience with FPGA physical constraints and timing closure
- Experience developing low-level FPGA requirements and verification procedures
- RF design background
- Board or system-level debugging experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and RF signal generators
- Experience developing complex test benches in ModelSim or QuestaSim for formal verification
- Familiarity with VxWorks RTOS, its architecture, and development tools
- Expertise in high-speed FPGA implementations including AXI, DMA, PCIe, HSSI, DDR3, or Ethernet
- Ability to work full-time onsite in Northridge, California
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