Junior Hardware Engineer - Pathway to Innovation

HII's Mission Technologies division•Roanoke, VA

36d•$115,000 - $130,000•Onsite

About The Position

This opportunity resides with Warfare Systems (WS), a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. Warfare Systems comprises cyber and mission IT; electronic warfare; and C5ISR systems. HII works within our nation’s intelligence and cyber operations communities to defend our interests in cyberspace and anticipate emerging threats. Our capabilities in cybersecurity, network architecture, reverse engineering, software and hardware development uniquely enable us to support sensitive missions for the U.S. military and federal agency partners. Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense – the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Our capabilities range from C5ISR, AI and Big Data, cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment, environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class. HII Mission Technologies (HII MT) is seeking talented engineers who are excited to work in a flipped engineering environment. Our team in Roanoke, VA specializes in reverse engineering and microelectronics trust and assurance. HII Mission Technologies is seeking out-of-the-box thinkers who can uncover difficult-to-activate corner-case bugs and vulnerabilities in the gate-level netlists of FPGA and ASIC designs. Candidates for this position will contribute to the team by utilizing industry-standard functional verification tools (e.g., Questa, VCS, Verdi), logical equivalence tools (e.g., OneSpin 360EC), and proprietary software tools to verify design function and integrity. Common verification targets include embedded processors, DSPs, filters, transceivers, data links, systems-on-chip, and decoders. Experience in the cybersecurity, electronic warfare, encryption, radar, and/or satellite communications domains is a plus. This posting is used to gather applications for both current and future opportunities within HII – Mission Technologies. Positions are being filled on an ongoing basis and additional roles are expected to open throughout the year. As new opportunities become available, applicants will be reviewed, and qualified candidates will be contacted regarding next steps.

Requirements

Are a United States citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance (Secret-Top Secret/SCI)
Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
Experience with modern digital verification and modeling languages: SystemVerilog, SystemC, C/C++, Matlab, etc.
Directed, constrained-random, and assertion-based verification techniques at the gate, interface, and transaction levels
Experience with modern, commercial-grade, functional simulators (e.g., Xcelium, Incisive, Questa, VCS, Riviera-Pro, etc)
Writing scripts for batched verification tasks: Python, Bash, Tcl, make files.
Revision control systems for maintaining, sharing, and deploying code: Perforce, git, SVN, etc.
Familiarity with debugging and isolating issues with gate-level netlists
5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 3 years relevant experience with Masters in related field

Nice To Haves

Already possess an active Top Secret security clearance and/or be eligible to obtain a higher-level clearance as required
Familiarity with object-oriented, embedded, assembly, or machine code programming
Software or hardware reverse-engineering (e.g., IDA Pro, Ghidra)
FPGA design or verification
Familiarity with testing and verification techniques for IC trust, assurance, or security
Experience with logical equivalence checkers (e.g., OneSpin 360-EC, ESP, Conformal EC)
Experience with formal ABV

Responsibilities

Candidates for this position will contribute to reverse engineering efforts on systems of interest and support the development of innovative solutions.
Successful candidates will be expected to communicate clearly and effectively, and demonstrate the ability to design maintainable approaches to complex technical problems.
Candidates will develop models, transactors, stimuli, monitors, and test benches for simulating and uncovering hidden behaviors in gate-level digital netlists.
Candidates will be expected to produce clear documentation and test cases demonstrating identified bugs or deviations from the specification.
Effective collaboration with teammates to produce cohesive results and create improved processes is required.
Candidates must be U.S. citizens and be willing and able to obtain a DoD security clearance (if not already cleared).