Senior FPGA Design Engineer (Secret Clearance)

0902 SP - Launch Vehicles; United States; On-site; USD 108,200 - 162,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Savings plan

Holidays & PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems in Chandler, AZ seeks a Principal FPGA Digital Engineer to join the Electro-Optics Group within Launch Vehicles. You will collaborate with senior FPGA engineers and cross-disciplinary teams to resolve design and integration challenges.

The role emphasizes developing test benches to validate FPGA designs for functional and timing requirements, managing multiple configurations, and documenting results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant FPGA/SoC design experience.
• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret clearance at application time.
• Solid background in FPGA/SoC design with VHDL/Verilog.
• Experience with AMD Xilinx FPGAs/SoCs.
• Knowledgeable in timing constraints, MOSA interfaces, and OSVVM/UVM.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior FPGA engineers and multidisciplinary teams to resolve design and integration challenges.
• Develop and execute advanced test benches to verify FPGA designs meet functional and timing requirements.
• Generate, verify & integrate IO and image processing HDL modules with overall device architecture.
• Ensure compliance with internal design standards across development lifecycle.
• Oversee configuration management of multiple FPGA bitstream build configurations.
• Prepare, present, and maintain design documentation and verification reports.

Skills

FPGA/SoC design

VHDL/Verilog

Vivado/Vitis

OSVVM/UVM

Questa/ModelSim

Logic analyzers/oscilloscopes

Embedded C/C++

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Master’s degree (optional)

PhD (optional)

Tools

Vivado IDE

Vitis

Questa/ModelSim

Job description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems in Chandler, AZ seeks a Principal FPGA Digital Engineer to join the Electro-Optics Group within Launch Vehicles. You will collaborate with senior FPGA engineers and cross-disciplinary teams to resolve design and integration challenges.

The role emphasizes developing test benches to validate FPGA designs for functional and timing requirements, managing multiple configurations, and documenting results.