FPGA Digital Design Engineer Level 3 (AHT)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description 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. Northrop Grumman Advanced Weapons has an opening for an FPGA Digital Design Engineer Level 3 to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This role will support the ARRGM-ER missile program within the Advanced Weapons Business Unit in Northridge, CA.    This position is required to be full-time, on-site in the Northridge, CA location. No remote/telework arrangement is available for this position.    In this capacity, you will utilize your working knowledge of digital signal processing and digital interfaces to work on FPGA and ASIC Design across the full product life cycle process. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation.   Key Responsibilities: ·       Design, develop, modify and evaluate digital electronic parts, components or integrated circuitry for digital electronic equipment and other hardware systems. ·       Determine design approaches and parameters. ·       Analyze equipment to establish operating data, conduct experimental tests, and evaluate results. ·       Select components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability. ·       Review vendor capability to support product development. ·       Responsible for research, design, and development for complex high speed digital designs ·       Support the implementation of digital FPGA hardware architecture and algorithms ·       Collaborate with Systems Engineering to ensure firmware design meets system level requirements ·       Review designs and analysis   Basic Qualifications – FPGA Design Engineer 3: ·       Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline with 8+ years of digital design & verification engineering experience using industry standard simulation tools; or 6+ years with an MS degree ·       Must have hands-on FPGA design experience with VHDL and/or Verilog within the past 6 years. ·       Experience with AMD/Xilinx and/or Intel/Altera SoC FPGAs. Experience with Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools: Vivado, Quartus, and QuestaSim. ·       Experienced with DOORS. ·       Experience with Programmable Logic / FPGA / Digital requirements decomposition, verification, tracing, and design. ·       Must be able to obtain an Active US Government Secret security clearance   Preferred Qualifications: ·       Proficient in DSP algorithms and its implementation onto the FPGA using MATLAB and SimuLink. ·       Cybersecurity, SSE background or experience ·       Experience with Cameo ·       Strong design skills in VHDL & Verilog. ·       Experience in FPGA physical constraints and achievin