Senior FPGA Design Engineer — Secret Clearance Eligible

Northrop Grumman; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking an FPGA Digital Design Engineer Level 3 to join our team at Northridge, CA. This full-time, on-site role focuses on FPGA/ASIC design across the full product lifecycle, applying Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices to deliver critical national defense capabilities.

The position requires a strong background in digital signal processing, VHDL/Verilog, and experience with SoC FPGAs, EDA tools, and DOORS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline with 8+ years of digital design & verification engineering experience using industry standard simulation tools; or 6+ 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 Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools: Vivado, Quartus, and QuestaSim.
• Experienced with DOORS.
• Experience with Programmable Logic / FPGA / Digital requirements decomposition, verification, tracing, and design.
• 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

DOORS

ModelSim

QuestaSim

Vivado

Quartus

SoC FPGA

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or STEM

Tools

Vivado

Quartus

QuestaSim

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking an FPGA Digital Design Engineer Level 3 to join our team at Northridge, CA. This full-time, on-site role focuses on FPGA/ASIC design across the full product lifecycle, applying Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices to deliver critical national defense capabilities.

The position requires a strong background in digital signal processing, VHDL/Verilog, and experience with SoC FPGAs, EDA tools, and DOORS.