Sr. Principal Digital Design Engineer

AllianceIT Inc; Rolling Meadows (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems in Rolling Meadows, IL, is seeking a Sr. Principal Digital Design Engineer to lead digital hardware design across the full product lifecycle. The role focuses on FPGA-based systems, high-speed interfaces, and embedded processing, with current Secret clearance.

Responsibilities include translating requirements into embedded designs, performing verification, and collaborating across teams to deliver robust electronic warfare systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or similar with 9+ years in digital electronics design or 7+ years with a master’s.
• Extensive digital hardware circuit design experience including simulation and schematic capture through test and integration.
• Ability to translate system performance and operational requirements into embedded system requirements, design, and test specs.
• Experience in HDL (VHDL/Verilog).
• Synthesis timing closure, physical build, image generation; testbench generation and verification; Xilinx Vivado, Synplify Pro, QuestaSim.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, modifies and evaluates digital circuitry for digital electronic equipment and hardware systems.
• Oversees full lifecycle from concept to field support; utilizes FPGA technologies from major vendors.
• Work with high-speed interfaces, RF DSP, controls, data links, and embedded processing.

Skills

Team leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Adaptability

Creativity

Collaboration

Independent working

Problem solving

HDL (VHDL/Verilog)

System requirements translation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Master’s degree in a technical field

Tools

Xilinx Vivado

Synopsys Synplify Pro

Mentor Graphics QuestaSim

Job description

Job Title - Sr. Principal Digital Design Engineer

Job Location - 1605 Rohlwing Road, Rolling Meadows, Illinois, United States of America, 60008-1337

Job Description -

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is looking for a Sr. Principal Digital Design Engineer to join our team in Rolling Meadows, IL. As an integral member of the Special Tactical Electronic Warfare Systems (STEWS) team, selected Digital Design Engineer will participate in design, development, and modernization of systems that include airborne RF and IR systems, laboratory test stations, and transportable flight-line electronic combat system test sets.

Responsibilities:

Designs, develops, modifies and evaluates digital electronic parts, components or integrated circuitry for digital electronic equipment and other hardware systems. Determines design approaches and parameters. Analyzes equipment to establish operating data, conducts experimental tests, and evaluates results. Selects components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability. May also review vendor capability to support product development.

The Digital Design Engineer role involves full life-cycle product development from system concept and requirements through design, implementation, test verification, production, and field support. Digital subsystem and circuit card designs utilize the latest FPGA technologies from all major vendors and device families including Xilinx and Intel (Altera), and support high speed interfaces, Radio Frequency (RF) DSP, controls, data links, embedded processing, and processor interfaces. Your expertise in digital design and analysis, coding, verification, and synthesis using state of the art tools and techniques are desired for this position.

Basic Qualifications for Engineer Digital 3

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline with a minimum 9 years of digital electronics design experience or 7 years of digital electronics design experience with a master’s degree in a technical field.
• Extensive digital hardware circuit design experience, including simulation and schematic capture through test and integration.
• Ability to translate system performance and operational requirements into embedded system requirements, design, and test specifications
• Experience in HDL (VHDL/Verilog)
• A thorough understanding of synthesis static timing closure, physical build (implementation) and image generation. Strong testbench generations and verification. Experience using Xilinx Vivado, Synopsys Synplify Pro and Mentor Graphics QuestaSim.
• Implementation of real time Digital Signal Processing algorithms within FPGAs. Experience with high-speed digital design techniques such as pipelining, asynchronous clock domains, synchronization, finite state machines, multi-cycling, and use of FIFOs.
• Familiarity with documentation and revision control
• Proven skills to include team leadership, mentoring others, communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally, being adaptable, creative, collaborative, comfortable working independently, and enjoys solving difficult problems.

Current Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications for Engineer Digital 3

• Advanced degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with a minimum 12 years of digital electronics design xperience.
• Algorithm modeling using Matlab to generate bit-exact test vectors is desiredWorking knowledge of Electronic Warfare systems.
• Experience in Aerospace and/or Defense industries.