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Northrop Grumman Corp. (AU)

Principal/Sr. Principal Digital Engineer

Northrop Grumman Corp. (AU), San Diego, California, United States, 92189


At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work - and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

We are looking for you to join our team as a Digital Engineer based out of our Rancho Carmel or Spectrum Center campuses in San Diego, CA.

What You'll Get to Do:

As an Electrical / Digital Engineer at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.

This is work that matters and a career that can take you places. If you have hands-on experience in FPGA Development with VHDL, apply today.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Responsible for research, design, and development for digital designs associated with multi-function software defined radios, as well as automated test equipment

Work with evaluation boards to test proposed 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

May lead a team of Digital VHDL engineers

Basic Qualifications Principal Digital Engineer:

5 years of relevant professional experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline; 3 years with Masters; 0 years with a PhD

Must have hands on FPGA design experience with VHDL within the past 3 years

US Citizenship is required in order to obtain and maintain security clearance

Clearance:

Candidate must currently have, and be able to maintain an active U.S. Government DOD Secret Clearance

Basic Qualifications Sr. Principal Digital Engineer:

9 years of relevant professional experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline; 7 years with Masters; 4 years with a PhD

Must have hands on FPGA design experience with VHDL within the past 3 years

US Citizenship is required in order to obtain and maintain security clearance

Clearance:

Candidate must currently have, and be able to maintain an active U.S. Government DOD Secret Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with leading and mentoring a team

Experience with DSP, MATLAB, and SimuLink

Experience with VHDL design for Software Defined Radios

Experience with AMD/Xilinx 7 (Zynq, Kintex and Ultrascale) or Versal family of devices.

Experience with Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools: Vivado, Quartus, QuestaSim.

Knowledgeable in FPGA physical constraints and achieving timing closure.

Experience with board or system level debug using test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.

Generation of Test Benches and support of formal VHDL Verification

Clearance:

Ability to meet enhanced security review criteria for higher level clearances.

Salary Range:

$118,000 - $177,000

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO . U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

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