Digital Design Engineer

We're looking for a Digital Hardware/Firmware/FPGA Engineer II to join our Signal Solutions team in Frederick, MD. In this role, you'll design, develop, analyze, verify, and validate digital electronic products and subsystems covering a wide range of applications including signal and radar processing, network communications, and electronic warfare.
This is a hybrid role with some remote flexibility, and we work a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off.

• FPGA/PLD digital logic design, System Simulation, Synthesis, Resource and Power Utilization analysis, Place and Route, Timing analysis, Verification, and Integration activities
• Design, build, and test of cutting-edge devices containing both digital and optical hardware
• Troubleshoot and diagnose malfunctions in existing products or systems and makes modifications as needed
• Compile and evaluate design and test data
• Analyze, develop and recommend design approaches
• Provide regular reporting of progress and status
• Support the program design to cost and design for manufacture requirements
• Develop prototypes to retire key development risks as directed
• Support, communicate, reinforce and defend the mission, values and culture of the organization
• Responsible for some aspects of requirement decomposition/definition/clarification, system design, system verification, associated documentation for digital electronics development, design revision control, and archival of design files
• Participate in the generation of test and verification plans establishing functional criteria to ensure requirements are correctly implemented
• Participate in the execution of verification plans and assist in development unit and system testing
• May participate in BD (Business Development) activities, including providing inputs to RFPs (Request for Proposals) and RFQs (Request for Quotes)
  

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or other related field with 2 years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Firmware development Tools/Skills proficiencies:
• Implement high speed interface designs, low power architectures, embedded micro-processing systems, and complex memory designs, including protocols such as DDR, 10G/40G/100G Ethernet, Aurora, and PCIe in networking applications
• Implement novel DSP algorithms efficiently into FPGA structures
• Generate and execute constraint driven synthesis and timing closure techniques
• VHDL, with some familiarity with Verilog and SystemVerilog
• Various scripting languages and approaches such as tcl, bash, perl, etc.
• Mentor Graphics Questa or ModelSim simulation/verification tools, with some familiarity with constrained random verification approaches
• Subversion, CVS, GIT, or similar
• Xilinx Vivado, Intel Questa, Microsemi Libero SoC, etc.
• Digital Hardware design Tools/Skills proficiencies:
• Schematic capture and providing input to PWB/PCB design through layout, fabrication and assembly
• Manage bill of materials (BOMs), costs, and schedules
• Contribute to digital hardware requirements analysis, requirements definition, requirements management, functional analysis, performance analysis (e.g. signal integrity, power, etc.), interface analysis and definition for the design
• Contribute to the integration and verification of digital components, equipment, and systems for major programs and projects
• Involved in troubleshooting and design updates of existing
• Knowledge of high-speed serial and parallel interfaces such as 40GBASE-KR4, PCIe, DDR4, USB, SERDES, etc.
• Knowledge of lab practices and test using high speed measurement instruments such as VNAs, oscilloscopes, BERTs and TDR/TDT

*This position has the option of being either fully onsite in our Frederick facility or partly remote (onsite Tues-Thurs). Must live within commuting distance of the designated facility regardless of choice.