Sr. Principal Digital Design Engineer with Security Clearance

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

Job summary

ASD is seeking a Digital Design Engineer to join the STEWS team for design, development, and modernization of airborne RF/IR systems and flight-line test sets. You will work on FPGA-based digital subsystems, high-speed interfaces, and embedded processing throughout full life-cycle product development.

The role requires a Bachelor's in Electrical/Computer Engineering with extensive digital electronics design experience, HDL proficiency, and an active Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or similar field with 9+ years of digital electronics design, or 7+ years with a Master’s degree.
• Extensive digital hardware circuit design experience including simulation, schematic capture, and integration.
• Ability to translate system requirements into embedded design and test specifications.
• Experience with HDL (VHDL/Verilog) and FPGA toolchains; current Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, modify, and evaluate digital electronics for hardware systems.
• Lead full life-cycle product development from concept to field support.
• Implement FPGA-based subsystems with high-speed interfaces and embedded processing.
• Develop testbenches, verify designs, and review vendor capabilities as needed.
• Collaborate across teams; mentor others and communicate across organizational levels.

Skills

FPGA design

HDL (VHDL/Verilog)

Digital signal processing

Synthesis timing

Xilinx Vivado

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Master’s degree in a technical field

Tools

Xilinx Vivado

QuestaSim

Synplify Pro

Mentor Graphics tools

Job description

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

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