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Digital Engineer
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What they do
A Firmware Engineer develops the programmable content in electronic hardware devices. Works for a hardware company developing software for each hardware platform. Alters, organizes and models the functionality of software for a variety of industries, including the automotive, health care and consumer electronics industries.
$102,471 / year median in Maryland
-4% projected decline
Job Description
Digital Engineer
Skills
Preferred Qualifications
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- VHDL
- VHDL programming language
- Firmware
- firmware development
- Specifications
- Design
- Implementation Experience
- Integration
- Debuggers
- Maintenance
- MSCE
- MSEE
- timing constraints
- Timing Closure
- real-time embedded firmware development
- Radar
- Electronic Warfare
- Space technologies
- Schematic Capture
- government contracting environment
- lab/testing environment
- VHDL
- VHDL programming language
- Firmware
- firmware development
- Specifications
- Design
- Implementation Experience
- Integration
- Debuggers
- Maintenance
- MSCE
- MSEE
- timing constraints
- Timing Closure
- real-time embedded firmware development
- Radar
- Electronic Warfare
- Space technologies
- Schematic Capture
- government contracting environment
- lab/testing environment
SummaryJob Title:
Digital EngineerLocation:
Baltimore, MD- OnsiteKey Responsibilities
- Design, verification, simulation, and testing of FPGAs.
- Utilize modeling and simulation tools to expedite development and testing of firmware updates.
- Develop test plans and implement rigorous testing and validation processes for digital designs to ensure functionality, performance, and security requirements are met.
- Ad 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.
- Create engineering change orders and perform fundamental types of analysis such as power utilization and signal integrity.
- Provide support for Systems Integration and Test operations.
- Lead on-site testing of digital designs.
- Manage design constraints (timing, power, I/O) and perform static timing analysis to meet critical performance targets.
- Use interpersonal skills to work effectively within a development team to understand system-level interdependencies.
Experience:
Must have 5 years of related experience. Must have 5 years of experience with VHDL programming language. Must have 5 years of experience with firmware development, including specification, design, implementation, integration, debug, and maintenance.Technical Skills:
Must have 5 years of experience working in schematic and programmable logic tools such as AMD/Xilinx, Vivado, or Altera/Quartus.Preferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Computer Engineering (MSCE), Electrical Engineering (MSEE), or related STEM Degree with 8+ years of related experience.
- Knowledge of timing constraints and achieving timing closure.
- Experience in real-time embedded firmware development and knowledge of Radar, Electronic Warfare, or Space technologies.
- Proficiency with schematic and programmable logic tools.
- Proficiency in a government contracting environment.
- Ability to collaborate in a team environment.
Thanks,Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools ("AI") that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.