Hardware Design Engineer (FPGA, Xilinx)

Job Title: Engineer Hardware 2 (1885)

Location: Rolling Meadows Illinois

Secret Clearance: Active SECRET

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Must Have

• Computer Simulations
• Digital Electronics Design
• Hardware Design
• Integrated Circuit Layout

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Hardware Design Engineer 2 role involves full life-cycle product development from system concept and requirements through design, implementation, test verification, production, and field support while working in integrated product teams spanning Engineering, Manufacturing, and Program Management. Digital subsystem and circuit card designs utilize the latest FPGA technologies from all major vendors and device families including Xilinx, Altera, and Actel, and support high speed interfaces, Radio Frequency (RF) and Electro-Optical (EO) DSP, controls, data links, embedded processing, and processor interfaces.

As a Hardware Design Engineer 2, you will join our diverse team and be responsible for research, design, and development of digital hardware products. Your expertise in digital component design and analysis, modeling and simulation, circuit level design and test, and project leadership are desired for this position. Research, designs, develops, and tests a variety of electronic equipment and systems, including radar and radiation detection equipment; radio, television and other communications equipment and systems; circuitry components; analog and digital computers; and control and test equipment.

This position will be full-time, on-site at our Rolling Meadows, IL. location. 

Basic Qualifications for a Principal Digital Design Engineer:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline with a minimum 5 years of digital electronics design experience or a master’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline and 3 years of digital electronics design 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.
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects with 2 or less team members.
• Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications.
• Familiarity with documentation revision control and review systems like DOORS, ClearCase, and ClearQuest.
• US Citizen
• Current Active Secret Clearance with additional customer specified clearance prior to start.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with a minimum 10 years of digital electronics design experience.
• Working knowledge of Electronic Warfare systems.
• Experience in Aerospace and/or Defense industries.
• Recent circuit card design experience utilizing circuit-related tools including Cadence Concept, Allegro, and/or Mentor Dx Designer, Expedition.
• Working experience with ClearCase/ClearQuest and DOORS Current Secret or Top-Secret Security Clearance.
• Proven skills to include team leadership, mentoring others, communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally, being adaptable, creative, collaborative, and also comfortable working independently and enjoying solving difficult problems.