Senior Principal FPGA Digital Engineer (Secret Clearance)

Northrop Grumman; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 149,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr. Principal Digital Engineer in Maryland to lead FPGA design, verification, and firmware development for defense systems. The role requires VHDL expertise, schematic/programmable logic tool experience, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

The position supports an Enterprise-wide digital transformation, emphasizes automation and testing, and offers competitive salary and benefits. A Secret Clearance is required to start.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with 7 years of related experience.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance.
• Must have 5 years of experience with VHDL.
• Must have 5 years of experience with AMD/Xilinx, Vivado, Altera/Quartus.

Responsibilities

• Design, verification, simulation and testing of FPGAs.
• Utilize modeling and simulation tools to expedite 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 (e.g. power utilization, signal integrity).
• Providing 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 strong interpersonal skills to work effectively within a development team to understand system level interdependencies that impact circuit requirements and design constraints.

Skills

VHDL programming

Firmware development

Independent work

Team collaboration

Digital design

Education

BS in Computer Engineering

BS in Electrical Engineering

MS in Computer/ Electrical Engineering

Tools

AMD/Xilinx Vivado

Altera/Quartus

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Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr. Principal Digital Engineer in Maryland to lead FPGA design, verification, and firmware development for defense systems. The role requires VHDL expertise, schematic/programmable logic tool experience, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

The position supports an Enterprise-wide digital transformation, emphasizes automation and testing, and offers competitive salary and benefits. A Secret Clearance is required to start.