Principal/ Sr. Principal Digital Verification Engineer

Northrop Grumman Corp. (AU); San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 125,300 - 234,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance may be available

Health insurance

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Corp. (AU) in San Diego, CA, seeks Principal or Sr. Principal Digital Verification Engineer to define and maintain verification frameworks for software-defined radios and FPGA designs.

This role requires US citizenship and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance. You will join a team of 5–7 engineers, contribute to advanced radios, and may receive relocation assistance. Salary bands reflect primary and secondary ranges.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related STEM field.
• 5+ years in digital verification engineering; 3+ years with MS; 1+ year with PhD.
• Experience with VHDL design/verification for DoD comms systems.
• FPGA deployable product process knowledge.
• Experience developing verification plans, tests, test benches, and BFMs.
• US Citizenship and ability to obtain/maintain a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain digital logic design verification frameworks for software-defined radios.
• Develop a verification plan based on requirements and specs.
• Simulate and verify FPGA logic, perform system validation.
• Analyze/debug simulation failures and resolve issues with designers.
• Conduct regression testing and generate verification metrics/reports.
• Collaborate in a team of 5–7 engineers.

Skills

Digital verification engineering

VHDL design

Siemens Questa Simulator

FPGA verification

OSVVM (preferred)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Siemens Questa Simulator

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people’s lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation’s history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they’re making history.

We are looking for you to join our team as a Principal Digital Verification Engineer or Sr. Principal Digital Verification Engineer based out of San Diego, CA. At the Northrop Grumman San Diego campus our Advanced Digital Design organization creates the next generation of communications and signal processing systems and will take ideas from concept to working systems aboard the world’s most advanced platforms right here in always-sunny San Diego. We design in our campus of labs and on‑site advanced manufacturing just minutes from the beach and everything for which southern California is famous. It’s work that matters and a career that can take you places. We seek degreed electrical or computer engineering engineers with hands‑on experience in FPGA Verification with VHDL.

You will be responsible for digital designs associated with multi‑function software‑defined radios. Systems include state‑of‑the‑art radios and test equipment for military applications.

Job Description

• Define and maintain digital logic design verification frameworks and architectures for software‑defined radio systems
• Develop a verification plan based on digital logic design requirements and design specifications
• Simulate and verify FPGA logic designs, requirements, and perform system validation
• Analyze and debug simulation failures, determine root causes of bugs, and work with designers to resolve issues
• Perform regression testing and generate verification metrics and reporting
• Operate in a team environment with 5‑7 engineers

Basic Qualifications for Principal

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline
• 5+ years of digital verification engineering experience using industry standard simulation tools (3+ years with an MS degree; 1+ years with PhD)
• Experience in VHDL design and verification methodologies for DoD communications systems
• FPGA deployable product process experience (requirements definition, conceptual design, detailed design, verification, and production release)
• Experience developing verification plans, functional tests, test benches, and bus functional models
• Experience with forecasting and estimating schedules for assigned tasks
• Demonstrated strong analytical skills and the ability to prioritize assignments according to program goals
• Experience using Siemens Questa Simulator
• Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Security Clearance

Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline
• 8+ years of digital verification engineering experience using industry standard simulation tools (6+ years with an MS degree; 4+ years with PhD)
• Experience in VHDL design and verification methodologies for DoD communications systems
• FPGA deployable product process experience (requirements definition, conceptual design, detailed design, verification, and production release)
• Experience developing verification plans, functional tests, test benches, and bus functional models
• Experience with forecasting and estimating schedules for assigned tasks
• Demonstrated strong analytical skills and the ability to prioritize assignments according to program goals
• Experience using Siemens Questa Simulator
• Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Security Clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Security Clearance
• Experience with functional verification methodology using OSVVM for the full life cycle of products
• Experience with scripting languages for Verification automation in a Linux environment (Perl, TCL, Bash, and Makefile)
• Experience using Siemens formal applications such as Lint, Inspect, and CDC
• Ability to hold special access program clearances

Salary

Primary Level Salary Range: $125,300.00 - $187,900.00

Secondary Level Salary Range: $156,400.00 - $234,600.00

Benefits

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

Equal Opportunity

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.