Business Unit: Cubic Defense Company Details: When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners. We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com. Job Details: Job Summary: Key member of the FPGA development team developing Register Transfer Logic (RTL) and digital signal processing (DSP) for use in communication datalink systems and other programs as required. The job includes all areas of FPGA development including creating requirements for RTL designs, selection of host programmable devices (FPGA or other), simulation/modeling of RTL design, implementation of design and hardware testing onto host FPGA, including unit and system level synthesis, timing closure, linting, test-bench creation, verification, integration, and hardware testing of the communication system, and documentation of the design. The role includes close liaison with the project engineering team. Good verbal and written communication skills and problem-solving skills are also required. Previous work experience and Knowledge of VHDL/Verilog development, DSP implementation, networking standards, communication theory, FPGA design environments, including ISE, Vivado, EDK, Modelsim, & Matlab is mandatory. Having advanced knowledge in RF front end, communication theory, DSP, Algorithm development, high-speed serial protocols, Python, TCL, C/C , microblaze, is a plus. Performs complex engineering tasks. Acts as a senior technical consultant or project leader, and as a liaison with other departments, divisions and organizations. May provide functional management and supervisory role for other members of the firmware/fpga engineering group. Provides technical direction to research, design, development, test and engineering activities. Evaluates vendor capabilities to provide required products or services. Reviews project progress and evaluates results. Estimates cost, schedule, manpower, and technical direction for proposal efforts. This position typically works under limited supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority. Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities: • Provides technical direction to digital, analog, subsystem or radio frequency hardware development/engineering programs, team members and managers. • Outlines and communicates the most appropriate technical approach for business development activities. • Determines the technical direction and strategy for solving complex, significant or major issues. • Identifies, investigates and resolves technical issues. • Plans and evaluates system architectural design, reviews system performance and identifies technical risks and associated ways to mitigate those risks. • Analyzes and prepares specifications. • Participates in design reviews. • Designs, develops and implements hardware. • Coordinates circuit design of components. • Communicates technical advancements through briefings and technical papers to co-workers, management staff, customers, and technical community, as appropriate. • Maintains state-of-the-art awareness in areas of technical expertise - changes, advancements and improvements. • Applies expertise to all areas of electronic engineering and development. • Responsible for innovation and creativity in broad area of electrical engineering and development. • Provides functional or resource planning guidance to engineering and management staff or groups. • Interfaces with team members, management staff, customers, subcontractors, and vendors. • Identifies electrical engineering process improvements, and enforces the execution of them across the organization. • Manages engineering metrics. Minimum Job Requirements: Four-year college degree in electronic engineering or related discipline plus a minimum of twelve years experience; or an applicable Master of Science degree and ten years of related experience. Experience to include hardware development/engineering, exercising creativity in technical direction and successful strategy development. Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing, interface with customers, subcontractors and vendors, and deal with employees and managers at all levels in manufacturing, engineering and other departments. Ability to use typical office automation products such as word processors and spreadsheets. Knowledge of customer needs and competing products. Must be able to solve complex and difficult engineering problems. Ability to work under project deadlines and associated cost and schedule constraints. May be required to travel domestically and internationally to include working odd hours, in-line with customer requirements. Must be a United States citizen, eligible for security clearance. The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need. Cubic Pay Range San Diego: $111,384– $153,153 benefits. The Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law. Worker Type: Employee Cubic creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation that make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities that help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global challenges through innovation and service to our customers and partners. We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Cubic is dedicated to providing a comprehensive employee benefits program. All regular, full-time and part-time employees (working an average of 20 hours per week) are eligible for benefits that are effective on the first day of employment. Cubic offers medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid disability (company continues full pay and benefits for up to six weeks), life insurance options, critical illness and accident coverages, Flexible Spending Accounts, a pre-paid legal plan, travel accident insurance, an award-winning well-being program which includes an employer-funded lifestyle spending account, up to six weeks of paid parental leave, and a 401k Retirement Plan with a company match. Employees can also take advantage of backup childcare, pet care, pet insurance, virtual tutoring, and a tuition reimbursement program. Many locations follow a 9/80 work schedule with time-off policies to help encourage employees to take time for rest and relaxation. Full-time salaried employees are eligible to participate in Cubic’s flexible time-off arrangement. Part-time and hourly employees accrue paid time-off (PTO)/Sick leave at a rate of 5.23 hours bi-weekly. Lastly, Cubic provides its employees 11 paid holidays throughout the calendar year. With a presence in over 60 countries and more than 5,000 employees worldwide, Cubic is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer. We are committed to ensuring a workplace free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, military or veteran status, and any other basis protected by applicable law. For more information on Equal Employment please visit: http://www.cubic.com/Careers/Applicant-Help To learn more, visit Cubic.com. Follow us on LinkedIn!