About the position
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. At Northrop Grumman Defense Systems we have an opening for a Sr Principal FPGA Digital Design Engineer supporting our Armament Systems business located in Plymouth, MN. The Armament Systems division of Northrop Grumman is seeking an experienced FPGA Digital Design Engineer. This position requires applying engineering techniques on developing advanced weapon systems of significant complexity and scope. This position requires experience in applying Electrical Engineering practices to all phases of military programs.
Responsibilities
- Lead digital design teams of 3-4 team members of varying skill levels.
- Perform FPGA design, simulation, and documentation using product families such as Xilinx Kintex7, Virtex7, Zynq, Ultrascale, RFSoc and Altera Agilex, Arria 10, and Max 10.
- Recognize unique design requirements such as safety and reliability architectures associated with military applications.
- Ensure adherence to coding standards and revision control practices.
- Review and critique designs created by peers and/or junior engineers.
- Define development test plans and methods to ensure a robust design is achieved.
- Define and develop specifications and test procedures.
- Conduct testing of products using high-speed oscilloscopes, signal generators, signal analyzers, Matlab, and FPGA debugging tools.
- Compile and analyze test data to determine design effects on electrical circuits for military applications.
- Organize/prioritize job assignments and tasks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering plus 8 years of relevant experience; Or a Master’s Degree plus 6 years of relevant experience; Or PhD plus 4 years relevant experience.
- Experience in FPGA design and development using VHDL or Verilog.
- Experience with Simulation tools.
- Experience with setting and managing design constraints to meet critical timing requirements.
- Experience with FPGA design verification using hardware verification and debugging tools.
- Experience in the use of lab equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
- Experience in creating and managing technical documentation such as architecture and interface control documents.
- Experience in Hardware/Software integration.
- Experience in lead engineering role.
- Must be a US citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in bus protocols such as I2C, SPI, RS-232, JESD204B, CSI/MIPI.
- Experience with digital implementations of common Digital Signal Processing functions such as: low pass, bandpass, and high pass filters, comb filter and Hilbert transform filter, PLLs.
- Experience with Intel Agilex, Arria 10, and Max 10.
- Experience with Modelsim, Xilinx Vivado, Xilinx Model Composer, Synplicity, MATLAB, Altera Quartus, Altera DSP Builder, Simulink, HDL Coder IP Creation and Integration.
- Experience with bus functional models.
- Full product life cycle (design, implementation, and test) of FPGA Design.
- Familiarity with unique test requirements associated with military electronics such as extreme temperature testing.
- Understanding of Six Sigma disciplines, design for assembly / design for manufacturing (DFA/DFM).
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
