Airborne Radar Digital Hardware Engineer

RTX (Raytheon); El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 63,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) match

Life insurance

Job summary

RTX is seeking a Digital Hardware Design Engineer to join the Hardware Engineering team in El Segundo. You will contribute to design, development, verification, and validation of airborne radar hardware for defense applications, working on RTL, FPGA/ASIC, and hardware bring-up.

The role requires strong HDL skills (Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL), timing analysis, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver robust hardware solutions for aerospace systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related STEM field.
• Experience with digital logic design, RTL design, and HDL tooling.
• Familiarity with timing analysis, verification, and hardware bring-up.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement digital hardware blocks using Verilog/SystemVerilog or VHDL.
• Develop RTL for FPGA/ASIC-based systems and participate in design reviews.
• Create and run simulation testbenches for functional verification.
• Debug RTL, simulations, synthesis, and hardware integration issues.
• Collaborate with verification, physical design, firmware, and system teams.
• Support FPGA prototyping, lab bring-up, and silicon validation activities.
• Analyze timing, area, power, and performance tradeoffs.
• Document designs, test plans, and engineering results.

Skills

Digital logic design

RTL design

FPGA/ASIC development

VLSI design

DSP concepts

HDL: Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL

Timing analysis

Debugging and testbenches

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related STEM

Tools

Vivado

Quartus

ModelSim

Questa

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

RTX is seeking a Digital Hardware Design Engineer to join the Hardware Engineering team in El Segundo. You will contribute to design, development, verification, and validation of airborne radar hardware for defense applications, working on RTL, FPGA/ASIC, and hardware bring-up.

The role requires strong HDL skills (Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL), timing analysis, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver robust hardware solutions for aerospace systems.