Associate Digital Engineer or Digital Engineer

Position Overview

We are looking for you to join our team as an Associate Digital Engineer or Digital Engineer based out of Buffalo, NY. Be part of Northrop Grumman's dynamic Digital Engineering team responsible for designing digital hardware sub-systems used in testing military radars, radar warning receivers, and jamming systems to protect the war fighter. These digital sub-systems include state-of-the-art custom designed and COTS circuit boards as well as high-speed FPGAs on custom or COTS circuit cards. This position may be filled as either role based on the candidate’s qualifications.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop digital circuits and systems, including FPGAs.
• Generate and update digital system requirements and select components based on specification analysis.
• Utilize modeling and simulation tools to expedite firmware development and testing.
• Develop test plans and implement rigorous testing and validation processes to ensure functionality, performance, and security requirements are met.
• Adhere to coding standards, revision control practices, and peer review procedures.
• Conduct tests using high-speed oscilloscopes, signal generators, analyzers, and FPGA debugging tools and analyze test data.
• Participate in field and on-site testing activities.
• Create engineering change orders and perform analyses (e.g., power utilization, signal integrity).
• Provide manufacturing engineering liaison support for production hardware testing.
• Support Systems Integration and Test operations.
• Collaborate effectively within a development team to understand system-level interdependencies impacting design constraints.

Required Qualifications

• Associate Digital Engineer:
  • Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field and a minimum of 6 months of professional work experience.
  • Ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications.
  • 6 months of experience in electronic circuitry and design from schematic creation through fabrication, assembly, and troubleshooting.
  • 6 months of hands-on hardware/software integration experience on complex digital subsystems (including FPGAs, embedded processors, and/or high-speed interfaces).
  • 6 months of experience in FPGA design and development using VHDL or Verilog.
  • 6 months of experience with FPGA design verification using simulation, hardware verification, and debugging tools.
  • 6 months of experience using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
  • U.S. Citizenship.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense (DoD) secret clearance.
• Digital Engineer:
  • Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field and a minimum of 2 years of professional work experience.
  • Ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications.
  • 2 years of experience in electronic circuitry and design from schematic creation through fabrication, assembly, and troubleshooting.
  • 2 years of hands-on hardware/software integration experience on complex digital subsystems (including FPGAs, embedded processors, and/or high-speed interfaces).
  • 2 years of experience in FPGA design and development using VHDL or Verilog.
  • 2 years of experience with FPGA design verification using simulation, hardware verification, and debugging tools.
  • 2 years of experience using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
  • U.S. Citizenship.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense (DoD) secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance.
• Familiarity with schematic and programmable logic tools such as Altera/Intel Quartus, Vivado, etc.
• Experience integrating 3rd party vendor IP cores with internal designs.
• Experience in a Department of Defense (DoD) environment.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.