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Hardware / FPGA Design Engineer with Security Clearance

Riptronix LLC
Linthicum Heights, MD Full Time
POSTED ON 3/10/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/6/2025

Riptronix is looking for a customer-focused team player working on-site in a mission-oriented

environment. The candidate must be a self-starter, possess good communication skills, and be

willing to interface with multiple teams throughout the design process. We are currently seeking Information Assurance Hardware Design Engineers with emphasis on

FPGA architecture, design, development and verification for cryptographic products. The

hardware design engineer will work closely with software and system engineers to

conceptualize, document, design, code, verify and lab-debug ASIC, FPGA and embedded

firmware designs for cryptographic products. The ideal candidate will be adaptable, motivated,

customer oriented, able to lead a small team and willing to mentor others while learning new

technologies. Qualifications :

  • Must possess an active TS / SCI Clearance with Full-Scope Polygraph
  • Assist with designing new products and processes and improving and maintaining

existing products

  • Communicate with the other engineering personnel to coordinate the interrelated design
  • and assure project completion

  • Conduct design analysis on components and assemblies to assist in the development
  • process by ensuring designs are cost efficient, able to be manufactured, and reliable

  • Apply FPGA place and route (P&R) tools with various libraries to create physical
  • implementations of designs

  • Design new products and processes
  • Improve and maintaining existing products
  • Lead the designs of new products and processes and improve and maintain existing
  • products

  • Provide technical leadership to less experienced engineers
  • Perform Security Verification Testing and Certification to meet Type I Information
  • Assurance Certification standards

  • Produce security evaluation documentation to support new ASIC and FPGA designs
  • Review Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) Hardware Description Language
  • VHDL) code and provide security recommendations

  • Perform Security Verification Testing and Certification to meet Type I Information
  • Assurance Certification standards

  • Evaluate, review, and test security code
  • Other Highly Desirable Experience :

  • Development of NSA TYPE 1 security products using NSA IA security practices
  • Experience with VHDL, C / C , Bash, Verilog, Tcl / TK, Mentor Graphics, GitLab
  • Experience with FPGA design using Xilinx's Vivado, Microblaze Design Suite, Partial
  • Reconfiguration, Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS), and High Speed Serdes

    HSS)

  • Cryptographic algorithm development
  • NSA Type-1 SV testing
  • Python scripting Education / Experience : Mid-Career : Seven (7) years of experience as a hardware design engineer is required. Bachelor’s
  • degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or

    university is required. Five (5) years of additional hardware design engineering experience may

    be substituted for a bachelor’s degree. Senior : Twelve (12) years of experience as hardware design engineer is required. Bachelor’s

    degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or

    university is required. Five (5) years of additional hardware design engineering experience may

    be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

    About Us : Riptronix LLC is a locally owned small business that specializes in delivering high-end engineering

    products and services to our customers. Our employees have a wide variety of engineering skills and

    talents in hardware, software and system engineering to solve the most challenging technical problems

    facing our customers. Our employees are detail-oriented, customer-focused, and enjoy working in a

    dynamic and productive team environment. At Riptronix we want you to join the company for a mutually beneficial long-term employment

    relationship. We are looking for talented employees who appreciate opportunities to learn new things and

    to contribute their talents on multiple projects. We work closely with our customers to produce timely and

    often incremental solutions for many of our projects. Riptronix offers a great work environment / culture with excellent compensation and benefits for our

    employees. Our benefits include employer paid medical, dental and vision insurance, 25 days of paid

    time of, 10 government holidays, excellent 401K (6% employer contribution and 9% profit sharing), and

    flexible work schedule and comp time policy. Riptronix is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action

    Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,

    color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

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