Principal Digital Engineer or Sr. Principal Digital Engineer - R10209994
Northrop Grumman
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Buffalo, NY
Principal Digital Engineer or Sr. Principal Digital Engineer
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About This Role

Join Northrop Grumman's dynamic Digital Engineering team in Buffalo, NY. This role involves designing digital hardware sub-systems for military radars, radar warning receivers, and jamming systems, including custom and COTS circuit boards, and the development of high-speed FPGAs. The successful candidate will be part of an Enterprise-wide digital transformation, utilizing Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps, and Agile practices.

Roles & Responsibilities

Lead the design and development digital circuits, including circuits that may contain FPGAs; Generate and update digital system requirements and select components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability; Use modeling and simulation tools to expedite development and testing of firmware before hardware is available; 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; Lead on-site testing of digital designs; Create engineering change orders and perform fundamental types of analysis (i.e., power utilization, signal integrity, etc.); Manufacturing engineering liaison support for production hardware testing; Providing support for Systems Integration and Test operations; Use strong interpersonal skills to work effectively within a development team to understand system level interdependencies that impact circuit requirements and design constraints.

Required Skills

Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications; Advanced knowledge of digital circuitry and design from schematic creation through fabrication, assembly, and troubleshooting; Hands-on hardware/software integration experience of complex digital subsystems, such as circuit card development involving FPGAs, and/or embedded processors, and/or high-speed interfaces; 3-7 years experience in FPGA design and development using VHDL or Verilog; 3-7 years experience with FPGA design verification using simulation, hardware verification, and debugging tools; 3-7 years experience in the use of lab equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers; U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain Department of Defense (DoD) secret clearance.

Preferred Skills & Nice-to-Haves

Active Secret Clearance; Proficiency with schematic and programmable logic tools such as Altera/Intel Quartus, Vivado, etc.; Proficiency integrating 3rd party vendor IP cores with internal designs; Proficiency in a Department of Defense (DoD) environment; Ability to collaborate in a team environment.

Education Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) field

Compensation

$110,300.00 - $206,000.00

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