Digital Engineer

Tek Leaders Inc; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Tek Leaders Inc. seeks a Digital Engineer in Baltimore, onsite, to design, verify, simulate and test FPGA-based digital designs.

You will use modeling tools to accelerate firmware updates and develop robust test plans to ensure functionality, performance and security requirements are met. You will collaborate with a development team, adhere to coding standards, and conduct thorough timing and power analyses.

Qualifications

• 5 years of VHDL experience required.
• 5 years firmware development lifecycle experience.
• Experience with FPGA design, verification, and testing.

Responsibilities

• Design, verification, simulation, and testing of FPGAs.
• Utilize modeling and simulation tools to expedite firmware updates testing.
• Develop test plans and implement rigorous testing and validation processes for digital designs to ensure functionality, performance, and security requirements are met.
• Adhere to coding standards, revision control practices, and peer review procedures.
• Conduct tests using high-speed oscilloscopes, signal generators, signal analyzers, and FPGA debugging tools, and analyze test data.
• Create engineering change orders and perform fundamental types of analysis such as power utilization and signal integrity.
• Provide support for Systems Integration and Test operations.
• Lead on-site testing of digital designs.
• Manage design constraints (timing, power, I/O) and perform static timing analysis to meet critical performance targets.
• Use interpersonal skills to work effectively within a development team to understand system-level interdependencies.

Skills

VHDL programming

Firmware development

FPGA design & verification

Static timing analysis

Team collaboration

Education

Master's Degree in Computer/ Electrical Engineering or related STEM

Tools

AMD/Xilinx Vivado

Altera Quartus

Job description

Job Title: Digital Engineer

Location: Baltimore, MD - Onsite

Key Responsibilities

• Design, verification, simulation, and testing of FPGAs.
• Utilize modeling and simulation tools to expedite development and testing of firmware updates.
• Develop test plans and implement rigorous testing and validation processes for digital designs to ensure functionality, performance, and security requirements are met.
• Adhere to coding standards, revision control practices, and peer review procedures.
• Conduct tests using high-speed oscilloscopes, signal generators, signal analyzers, and FPGA debugging tools, and analyze test data.
• Create engineering change orders and perform fundamental types of analysis such as power utilization and signal integrity.
• Provide support for Systems Integration and Test operations.
• Lead on-site testing of digital designs.
• Manage design constraints (timing, power, I/O) and perform static timing analysis to meet critical performance targets.
• Use interpersonal skills to work effectively within a development team to understand system-level interdependencies.

Experience: Must have 5 years of related experience. Must have 5 years of experience with VHDL programming language. Must have 5 years of experience with firmware development, including specification, design, implementation, integration, debug, and maintenance.

Technical Skills: Must have 5 years of experience working in schematic and programmable logic tools such as AMD/Xilinx, Vivado, or Altera/Quartus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Engineering (MSCE), Electrical Engineering (MSEE), or related STEM Degree with 8+ years of related experience.
• Knowledge of timing constraints and achieving timing closure.
• Experience in real-time embedded firmware development and knowledge of Radar, Electronic Warfare, or Space technologies.
• Proficiency with schematic and programmable logic tools.
• Proficiency in a government contracting environment.
• Ability to collaborate in a team environment.

Experience working in a lab/testing environment.

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