2026 Associate Software Digital Engineer - Rolling Meadows Il - Rolling Meadows Il

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Rolling Meadows, IL +1 · Engineering Mult-Func

Entry-level Software/Digital Technology Engineer role focused on designing, developing, simulating, implementing, verifying, and integrating digital logic for advanced mission solutions within Northrop Grumman's defense sector. Requires a Secret clearance and a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.

What you'd actually do

  1. Bring ideas into reality by designing and developing digital logic for our advanced mission solutions
  2. Gain hands-on exposure to the programmable logic full life-cycle: design, simulation, implementation, verification, and system integration
  3. Implement and debug designs in simulations and on real hardware
  4. Collaborate directly with experienced engineers to solve design challenges, get feedback, and learn best practices
  5. Engage in a full life-cycle approach-- design, implementation, test verification, production of digital electronic equipment and other hardware systems

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
  • Secret clearance
  • U.S. citizenship

Nice to have

  • Digital design exposure
  • VHDL
  • Verilog
  • System Verilog
  • Digital logic basics
  • VHDL or Verilog syntax
  • FPGA development workflow
  • scripting
  • high-level programming
  • MATLAB
  • Python
  • C/C++
  • Vivado
  • Quartus
  • Special Access Program
  • overall cumulative GPA of 3.0/4.0 or higher
  • current/active DoD Secret clearance
  • Strong communicator
  • team player
  • ability to work independently

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret clearance is required to start
  • final DoD Secret clearance is required to start
  • A final DoD Secret clearance is required to start