Principal Engineer Electrical

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Gilbert, AZ +1 · Electrical

FPGA/ASIC Engineer for Command and Data Handling (C&DH) products in space applications. Responsibilities include research, requirements analysis, systems architecture, design, coding, test bench design, verification, synthesis, and place & route for FPGA/ASIC applications in aerospace environments. Requires experience in RTL design, FPGA design flow, simulation, synthesis, place & route, static timing analysis, and power analysis.

What you'd actually do

  1. HDL design for FPGA and/or ASIC applications
  2. FPGA/ASIC verification via simulation and emulation (lab testing)
  3. FPGA/ASIC synthesis, timing analysis, and place & route
  4. FPGA design for space environments or space applications

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in STEM
  • 5 years of experience (or 3 with Master's, 1 with PhD)
  • RTL design for aerospace or space application
  • FPGA design flow (RTL/gate level simulation, synthesis, place & route, static timing analysis, power analysis)
  • FPGA Design, Simulation and V&V

Nice to have

  • Advance degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
  • Top Secret clearance
  • Experience with Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools (e.g., Xilinx ISE/Vivado, Mentor Graphics ModelSim/QuestaSim, Synplify)
  • Implementation of Digital Signal or Image Processing algorithms on FPGAs
  • Achieving timing closure on FPGA designs
  • Generating test benches for full functional simulation
  • System Verilog and Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)
  • Debugging down to the hardware level
  • Signal Generators, Logic Analyzers, Digital Oscilloscopes and Embedded FPGA Debugging tools