Digital Design Engineer

Description

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission!

Northrop Grumman Corporation is offering a challenging and rewarding career as a Digital Electrical Engineer within the Mission Systems Sector located at the Rolling Meadows - Illinois facility. The Digital Electrical Engineer role involves full life-cycle product development from system concept and requirements through design, production, verification, 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 Digital Electrical Engineer, 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, and circuit level design and test are desired for this position.

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

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline with a minimum of 2 years of engineering experience or a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer engineering, or similar discipline.
• Digital circuit design experience, including schematic capture through test and integration
• US Citizen
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• An advanced degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
• At least 1 year of digital electronics design experience
• 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 translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications
• Familiarity with documentation, revision control and review systems similar to DOORS, ClearCase, and ClearQuest
• Working knowledge of Electronic Warfare systems
• Recent circuit card design experience utilizing circuit-related tools including Cadence Concept, Allegro, and/or Mentor DxDesigner, Expedition
• Working experience with ClearCase/ClearQuest and DOORS
• Proven skills to include communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally, adaptable, creative, collaborative and comfortable working independently and enjoys solving difficult problems
• Current Secret or Top-Secret Security Clearance