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Digital Design Engineer (FPGA)
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Elite Technical
Manassas, VA (In Person)
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Job Description
Our client, a leading federal defense contractor is seeking a Digital Design Engineer to become an integral member of the engineering team dedicated to the development of military-grade electronics for the Common Weapon Launcher (CWL) system
- CWL provides horizontal, vertical, and countermeasure payload launching capability on multiple submarine classes.
Responsibilities:
- Design of digital electronics including Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) development and circuit design
- Responsible for definition, design, verification and documentation
- Determines architecture, system simulation, and detailed design approach
- Defines module interfaces and all aspects of device design and simulation
- Evaluates the process flow including but not limited to high level design, synthesis, place and route, timing and power utilization
- Creates test and simulation plans that establish functional criteria
- Verifies test results and analyzes performance
- Verification and validation on target hardware
- Leadership on inter-disciplinary design efforts Required Skills
- Must be US Citizen due to government requirement
- Must be willing to obtain a DoD Secret Clearance
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field, and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
- Knowledge and experience with all phases of circuit card design
- Ability to understand and explain designs using non-technical terms
- Ability to reverse engineer existing designs and understand/update functionality for new requirements
- Ability to work with Systems and Software Engineering to ensure system-level functionality
- Understanding of System-On-Chip (SoC) design with embedded processor on FPGA
- Grasps and applies new information quickly
- Solid ability to handle more complex assignments
- Shows initiative on assignments, exercises independent judgment and professionally executes projects with little direction
- Ability to perform application programming on embedded processor is a plus
- Identifies opportunities to apply AI for continuous improvement and innovation