What are the responsibilities and job description for the Digital Systems Architect-Sr Specialist position at Associates Systems LLC?
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Essential Functions:
- Support and/or lead technical proposals, including decomposition of customer requirements into unit or system architecture/design, technical writing, technical risk management, cost estimating, etc.
- Ensure the logical and systemic conversion of customer or product requirements into total system solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
- Lead technology development activities and support business development.
- Perform technical planning, unit and system integration, verification and validation activities in support of programs and Digital Unit/System development efforts.
- Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements, and allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
- Perform Cost, Risk, and Supportability and Effectiveness analyses for total digital communication systems (concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance & disposal).
- Work in a highly dynamic engineering integration lab.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 6 years of experience as a Systems Engineer
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- Graduate Degree with a minimum of 4 years prior related experience. Preference for BSEE in Electrical or Electronics Engineering
Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience in the architecture, specification, design, implementation, simulation, test, verification, validation, and debugging of digital based units, systems, avionics systems, and/or control systems
- Experience using hardware description languages (VHDL preferred)
- Experience with digital hardware design including FPGAs, Processors, Memory, data converters, etc
- Knowledge of military and/or NASA component specifications, design processes, and hardware test/verification procedures
- Background in systems engineering and high-reliability environments
- Excellent verbal communication, writing, and organizational skills
- Demonstrated complex problem solving and decision making — Able to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions; able to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate solution
- Experience with GPS and RF digital signal processing, forward error correction coding and decoding, encryption/decryption, waveforms, and data protocols in FPGAs is a plus
- Experience with Actel FPGAs is a plus
