Northrop Grumman’s Defense Systems is currently seeking a Digital FPGA Engineer Level 4 with the desire to learn new technologies to join our innovative Digital Technologies Organization to help develop, enhance, and maintain FPGA designs on cutting edge products and systems. As a Digital FPGA 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 selected individual will work on FPGA and ASIC Design across the full product life cycle process. In this capacity, you will utilize your working knowledge of digital signal processing and digital interfaces. This role will support the ARRGM-ER program within the Advanced Weapons Business Unit in Northridge, CA.
This position requires the selected candidate to work on-site in Northridge; CA on a 9/80 schedule. Telework is not available for this position. Relocation assistance, although not guaranteed, may be available.
Roles and Responsibilities:
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 Digital FPGA Engineer Level 4:
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other STEM discipline with 8 years of digital verification engineering experience using industry standard simulation tools; 6 years with an MS degree; 4 years with a PhDMust have hands on FPGA design experience with VHDL and/or Verilog within the past 3 years.Experience with AMD/Xilinx and/or Intel/Altera SoC FPGAsExperience with Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools: Vivado, Quartus, and QuestaSimMust have an active DoD Secret Clearance to startPreferred Qualifications Digital FPGA Engineer Level 4:
Proficient in DSP algorithms and its implementation onto the FPGA using MATLAB and SimuLinkExpertise in high-speed FPGA implementation such as AXI, DMA, PCIe, HSSI, DDR3, EthernetStrong design skills in VHDL & VerilogExperience in FPGA physical constraints and achieving timing closureExperience in developing low-level FPGA requirements and developing verification proceduresBackground in RF designExperience with board or system level debug using test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic and spectrum analyzers, RF signal generatorsGeneration of complex test benches in Modelsim or QuestaSim to support formal VerificationFamiliarity with the VxWorks RTOS, its architecture and development tools