Hardware Digital Design Engineer

RTX RTX · Aerospace · el segundo, CA +1

Hardware Digital Design Engineer for Airborne Radar Electronics Design, focusing on circuit card design and guiding hardware development of digital signal processing subsystems for defense applications. Requires experience with high-speed mixed signal/digital circuit card design, FPGAs, and bus standards, with a strong emphasis on security clearance and U.S. citizenship.

What you'd actually do

  1. responsible for circuit card design and guiding the hardware development of a digital signal processing subsystems designed for Airborne Applications.
  2. work with teams, provide technical oversight when needed, and work with the Engineering organization to establish technology roadmaps, and contribute to general creativity.
  3. work with government personnel and programs and define and refine requirements to validate hardware compliance.
  4. providing guidance, coaching, mentoring, and training to other employees within the candidate’s areas of expertise.
  5. work in the product development team environment with system, mechanical, and software engineers.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)
  • 5+ years of applicable experience focused on architecting, designing, implementing, and testing digital signal processing subsystems.
  • Experience with high-speed mixed signal circuit card design and/or high-density, high-speed digital circuit card design.
  • Experience managing and presenting technical data to stakeholders and customers in design reviews and technical interchange meetings.
  • Experience in bus standards protocol such as: sRIO, SpaceWire, VME, PCI, PCIe, VPX, and Gb Ethernet.
  • Experience designing with Xilinx and Altera FPGAs.
  • The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance post-start is required.
  • U.S. citizenship is required

Nice to have

  • Possess skills to handle fast pace and dynamic product development environment.
  • Strong team player with good interpersonal skills as well as excellent written/verbal communication skills.
  • 7+ years of applicable experience focused on architecting, designing, implementing, and testing digital signal processing subsystems.
  • Embedded Software knowledge and experience
  • Experience with Simulation tools such as Symulink, Modelsim; Logic Bus Analyzers, In-Circuit Emulators/Debugger
  • C or C++LabView, Matlab
  • Experience with Electronic Circuit Simulators such as PSpice
  • Familiar with Failure Analysis and worst-case analysis, HSpice/PSpice, Mentor xDx-Designer Hyperlynx
  • Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering is desirable.

What the JD emphasized

  • U.S. citizenship is required
  • The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required
  • Active and existing security clearance required after day 1