Senior FPGA Design Engineer Level 5 (Secret Clearance)

Northrop Grumman; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 195,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Advanced Weapons in Northridge, CA, is seeking a Staff FPGA Digital Design Engineer Level 5 to join our team. The role will support the ARRGM-ER missile program within the Advanced Weapons Business Unit in Northridge, CA and requires on-site work with no telework option.

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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or other STEM discipline with 12 years of digital design & verification experience using industry standard simulation tools; or 10 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 EDA Tools: Vivado, Quartus, and QuestaSim.
• Must be able to obtain an Active US Government Secret security clearance

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

Skills

FPGA design

VHDL

Verilog

Xilinx/Intel FPGAs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or STEM

10+ years work exp or MS degree 8

Tools

Vivado

Quartus

QuestaSim

Job description

Northrop Grumman Advanced Weapons in Northridge, CA, is seeking a Staff FPGA Digital Design Engineer Level 5 to join our team. The role will support the ARRGM-ER missile program within the Advanced Weapons Business Unit in Northridge, CA and requires on-site work with no telework option.

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.