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Northrop Grumman

Builds stealth bombers, missiles, and satellites

Principal Digital Engineer or Senior Principal Digital Engineer

Silicon & ASIC DesignConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Principal Digital Engineer must have a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related STEM degree and five years of related experience.
  • A Senior Principal Digital Engineer must have a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related STEM degree and eight years of related experience.
  • U.S. citizenship is required.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance; Secret clearance is required to start.
  • Five years of experience with the VHDL programming language is required.
  • Five years of experience working in schematic and programmable logic tools such as AMD/Xilinx, Vivado, or Altera/Quartus is required.
  • Ability to work independently, take initiative to complete tasks with minimal supervision, and contribute to team success is required.
  • Five years of experience with firmware development, including specification, design, implementation, integration, debugging, and maintenance, is required.

Responsibilities

  • Design, verify, simulate, and test field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
  • Use modeling and simulation tools to expedite development and testing of 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 analyses, including power utilization and signal integrity.
  • Support systems integration and test operations.
  • Lead on-site testing of digital designs.
  • Manage design constraints, including timing, power, and input/output, and perform static timing analysis to meet critical performance targets.
  • Work effectively within a development team to understand system-level interdependencies that affect circuit requirements and design constraints.

Desired Qualifications

  • A master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related STEM degree, with eight or more years of related experience is preferred.
  • Knowledge of timing constraints and achieving timing closure is preferred.
  • Experience in real-time embedded firmware development and knowledge of radar, electronic warfare, or space technologies are preferred.
  • Proficiency with schematic and programmable logic tools such as AMD/Xilinx, Vivado, or Altera/Quartus is preferred.
  • Proficiency in a Department of Defense environment is preferred.
  • Ability to collaborate in a team environment is preferred.
  • Experience working in a laboratory/testing environment is preferred.

About the Company

Northrop Grumman

Builds stealth bombers, missiles, and satellites

Northrop Grumman builds military aircraft, missiles, rocket motors, satellites, and electronic systems, mostly for the American military and allied governments. It designed the B-2 stealth bomber and built NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the largest telescope ever sent to space. The company works through four businesses: aircraft, missiles and ammunition, radar and communications systems, and space hardware such as satellites and solid rocket boosters. Most revenue comes from long-term government contracts, many of them classified. Its roots go back to Northrop Aircraft, founded in 1939, and it took its name after buying Grumman in 1994 and is based in Falls Church, Virginia.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Falls Church, VA
Founded
1939

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