Principal Electrical Engineer (FPGA Design Engineer)

Northrop Grumman•San Diego, CA

2d•$114,000 - $171,000•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Principal FPGA Design Engineer to support the Common Products Circuit Design organization in Rancho Bernardo, CA. As an FPGA Design Engineer, you will design, implement, and verify HDL to manage I/O devices on embedded computers in a new avionics’ product line. In collaboration with the product architect, electrical designers, software engineers, and systems engineers, you will develop requirements, define HW/SW interfaces, and determine verification approaches. You will establish integrated product development workflows, processes, and tools to reduce time to market for our safety-critical avionics designs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 5 years of related engineering experience; OR Master’s degree in a STEM discipline with 3 years of related experience; OR PhD in a STEM discipline with 1 year of related experience
Digital circuit design experience, including simulation & schematic capture through test and integration
Prior hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex digital subsystems, such as complex circuit card development involving FPGAs, and/or embedded processors, and/or high-speed interfaces
Experience with AMD FPGAs and the Vivado tool (or equivalent tools)
Experience with OVM/UVM Verification methodologies
Ability to obtain and maintain US Government Secret Clearance
Ability to obtain and maintain Program Access within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company

Nice To Haves

Experience facilitating internal and customer collaboration to capture and enhance engineering artifacts
Demonstrated experience with the full product life cycle (requirements, design, implementation, and test)
Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications

Responsibilities

Define FPGA architecture and logic design to support avionics computer functions
Translate system and board-level requirements to detailed FPGA requirements and design specifications
Collaborate with the Product Architect to partition system functionality between hardware, firmware, and software
Develop synthesizable HDL code for FPGA-based designs
Implement interfaces such as PCIe, SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet and Serial
Create comprehensive test benches and simulation environment to verify FPGA functionality
Perform functional, timing, and synthesis-level simulations to ensure deterministic and reliable operation
Support hardware-in-the-loop and system-level integration testing with embedded processors and avionics systems
Participate in formal verification and validation activities
Perform synthesis, implementation, and timing closure using Vivado
Optimize resource utilization, power consumption, and performance through iterative design and analysis
Generate and review timing constraints to ensure reliable performance across all environmental conditions
Provide support in person and through documentation generation of findings