DPP is seeking a Digital Engineer III for an opportunity with our client in the Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing industry.

Work Location:

Hybrid in

Rolling Meadows, IL Duration:

12 months

Terms:

W2

Contract Work Authorization:

US Citizen; must hold a current/active Secret security clearance

Position Summary:

As an integral member of the Special Tactical Electronic Warfare Systems (STEWS) team, selected Digital Design Engineer will participate in design, development, and modernization of systems that include airborne RF and IR systems, laboratory test stations, and transportable flight-line electronic combat system test sets.

Responsibilities:

Designs, develops, modifies and evaluates digital electronic parts, components or integrated circuitry for digital electronic equipment and other hardware systems. Determines design approaches and parameters. Analyzes equipment to establish operating data, conducts experimental tests, and evaluates results. Selects components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability. May also review vendor capability to support product development. The Digital Design Engineer role involves full life-cycle product development from system concept and requirements through design, implementation, test verification, production, and field support. Digital subsystem and circuit card designs utilize the latest FPGA technologies from all major vendors and device families including Xilinx and Intel (Altera), and support high speed interfaces, Radio Frequency (RF) DSP, controls, data links, embedded processing, and processor interfaces. Your expertise in digital design and analysis, coding, verification, and synthesis using state-of-the-art tools and techniques are desired for this position.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline with a minimum 9 years of digital electronics design experience or 7 years of digital electronics design experience with a master's degree in a technical field. Extensive digital hardware circuit design experience, including simulation and schematic capture through test and integration. Ability to translate system performance and operational requirements into embedded system requirements, design, and test specifications. Experience in HDL (VHDL/Verilog). A thorough understanding of synthesis static timing closure, physical build (implementation) and image generation. Strong testbench generations and verification. Experience using Xilinx Vivado, Synopsys Synplify Pro and Mentor Graphics QuestaSim. Implementation of real time Digital Signal Processing algorithms within FPGAs. Experience with high-speed digital design techniques such as pipelining, asynchronous clock domains, synchronization, finite state machines, multi-cycling, and use of FIFOs. Familiarity with documentation and revision control. Proven skills to include team leadership, mentoring others, communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally, being adaptable, creative, collaborative, comfortable working independently, and enjoying solving difficult problems. Current/active Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

Advanced degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with a minimum of 12 years of digital electronics design experience. Algorithm modeling using Matlab to generate bit-exact test vectors is desired. Working knowledge of Electronic Warfare systems. Experience in Aerospace and/or Defense industries. Interested?

Learn more:

Click the apply button to learn more about this position (26-01384). DP Professionals (DPP) offers a range of compensation and benefits packages to our employees and their eligible dependents. DPP is a certified Woman-owned Small Business Enterprise (WBE and WOSB) with more than 25 years in the staffing industry. EOE/AA/V/D