Principal/Sr. Principal Digital Engineer

US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: Yes
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
Description
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work - and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.
We are looking for you to join our team as a Digital Engineer based out of our Rancho Carmel or Spectrum Center campuses in San Diego, CA.
What You'll Get to Do:
As an Electrical / Digital Engineer at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.
At the Northrop Grumman San Diego campus our Advanced Digital Design organization creates the next generation of communications and signal processing systems and will take ideas from concept to working systems aboard the world's most advanced platforms. We design in our campus of labs and on-site advanced manufacturing just minutes from the beach and everything for which Southern California is famous.
This is work that matters and a career that can take you places. If you have hands-on experience in FPGA Development with VHDL, apply today.
Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for research, design, and development for digital designs associated with multi-function software defined radios, as well as automated test equipment
• Work with evaluation boards to test proposed designs
• Support the implementation of digital FPGA hardware architecture and algorithms
• Collaborate with Systems Engineering to ensure firmware design meets system level requirements
• Review designs and analysis
• May lead a team of Digital VHDL engineers

This position may be considered at a higher grade based on the requirements below.
Basic Qualifications Principal Digital Engineer:

• 5 years of relevant professional experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline; 3 years with Masters; 0 years with a PhD
• Must have hands on FPGA design experience with VHDL within the past 3 years
• US Citizenship is required in order to obtain and maintain security clearance
• Clearance: Candidate must currently have, and be able to maintain an active U.S. Government DOD Secret Clearance

Basic Qualifications Sr. Principal Digital Engineer:

• 9 years of relevant professional experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline; 7 years with Masters; 4 years with a PhD
• Must have hands on FPGA design experience with VHDL within the past 3 years
• US Citizenship is required in order to obtain and maintain security clearance
• Clearance: Candidate must currently have, and be able to maintain an active U.S. Government DOD Secret Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with leading and mentoring a team
• Experience with DSP, MATLAB, and SimuLink
• Experience with VHDL design for Software Defined Radios
• Experience with AMD/Xilinx 7 (Zynq, Kintex and Ultrascale) or Versal family of devices.
• Experience with Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools: Vivado, Quartus, QuestaSim.
• Knowledgeable in FPGA physical constraints and achieving timing closure.
• Experience with board or system level debug using test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
• Generation of Test Benches and support of formal VHDL Verification
• Clearance: Ability to meet enhanced security review criteria for higher level clearances.

Salary Range: $118,000.00 - $177,000.00Salary Range 2: $0.00 - $0.00
The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.
Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.