Job Description
Swift is a privately held, mission-driven and employee-focused services and solutions company headquartered in Reston, VA. Our capabilities include Software Development, Engineering & IT, Data Science, Cyber Enablement, Logistics, and Training. Founded in 2019, Swift supports Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence Community customers across the country and around the globe.
We are looking for a Information Assurance Hardware Design Engineer in Annapolis Junction, MD. Seeking Level 1-4 engineers.
The IA Hardware Design Engineer designs and tests integrated circuits and hardware components for a wide variety of
signal processing applications and research. Designs, documents, and develops code (to include firmware) for digital signal processors or other programmable hardware devices such as Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware. Designs, tests, simulates, and verifies new integrated circuits or hardware components. Provides detailed engineering reports, datasheets, test plans, and any other engineering documents needed to describe the hardware design. Document the design process.
Responsibilities:
- Levels 1-4
- Assist with designing new products and processes and improving and maintaining existing products
- Communicate with the other engineering personnel to coordinate the interrelated design and assure project completion
- Conduct design analysis on components and assemblies to assist in the development process by ensuring designs are cost efficient, able to be manufactured, and reliable
- Apply ASIC or FPGA place and route (P&R) tools with various libraries to create physical implementations of designs
- Develop and maintain documentation for the P&R design flows
- Assist with de-processing electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software
- Design new products and processes and improving and maintaining existing products
- Work with tool and library vendors to develop solutions for designers’ P&R design challenges
- Integrate new P&R tools, P&R tool updates, and ASIC or FPGA design libraries into Government’s computer aided design environment, documents the use of those tools and libraries, and Assist other physical designers to successfully complete their specific P&R design tasks
- Lead the designs of new products and processes and improve and maintain existing products
- Provide technical leadership to less experienced engineers
- Perform Security Verification Testing and Certification to meet Type I Information Assurance Certification standards
- Levels 3-4:
- Produce security evaluation documentation to support new ASIC and FPGA designs
- Review Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) Hardware Description Language (VHDL) code and provide security recommendations
- Perform full scan to test an ASIC and FPGA
- Evaluate, review, and test security code
- Level 4:
- Direct and check the work of other hardware design engineers
Requirements:
- Level 1:
- One (1) year of experience as a HDE in integrated circuit or microelectronic component design is required
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or university is required
- Four (4) years of additional hardware design engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree
- Level 2:
- Six (6) years of experience as a HDE in integrated circuit or microelectronic component design is required
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or university is required
- Four (4) years of additional hardware design engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree
- Level 3:
- Twelve (12) years of experience as a HDE in integrated circuit or microelectronic component design is required
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or university is required
- Five (5) years of additional hardware design engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree
- Level 4:
- Fifteen (15) years of experience as a HDE in integrated circuit or microelectronic component design is required
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or university is required
- Four (4) years of additional hardware design engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree
- A Master’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science may be substituted for two (2) years of experience
- A PhD in Engineering or Computer Science may be substituted for four (4) years of experience
- US citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required
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The Swift Group and Subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.
Pay Range: $49,996.80 - $290,004.00
Pay ranges are a general guideline and not intended as a guaranteed and/or implied final compensation or salary for this job opening. Determination of official compensation or salary relies on several different factors including, but not limited to: level of position, complexity of job responsibilities, geographic location, work experience, education, certifications, Federal Government contract labor categories, and contract wage rates.
At The Swift Group and Subsidiaries, you will receive comprehensive benefits including but not limited to: healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, education, and time off benefits.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Annapolis Junction |
| Industry | Financial Services |
| Company Size | 1,500 to 1,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1973 |
About Company
SWIFT is a member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products and services to connect more than 10,800 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in over 200 countries and territories. SWIFT enables its users to exchange automated, standardized financial information securely and reliably, thereby lowering costs, reducing operational risk and eliminating operational inefficiencies. SWIFT also brings the financial community together to work collaboratively to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest. SWIFT is headquartered in Belgium and has over 24 offices worldwide. In 2014 SWIFT processed more than 5.6 billion FIN messages.
Skills
- ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit)unmatched
- ASIC Designunmatched
- ASIC Testingunmatched
- Accreditation Standardsunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing)unmatched
- Circuit Componentsunmatched
- Circuit Testingunmatched
- Computer Engineeringunmatched
- Computer Firmwareunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Data Scienceunmatched
- Datasheetsunmatched
- Defense Intelligenceunmatched
- Design Flowsunmatched
- Digital Signal Processing (DSP)unmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Electrical Componentsunmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Engineeringunmatched
- FPGAunmatched
- FPGA Designunmatched
- Federal Contractsunmatched
- Federal Governmentunmatched
- Governmentunmatched
- Government Contractsunmatched
- Hardware Componentsunmatched
- Hardware Designunmatched
- Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
- Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
- Insurance Certificationsunmatched
- Integrated Circuit (IC) Designunmatched
- Integrated Circuits (ICs)unmatched
- Intelligence Communityunmatched
- Logisticsunmatched
- Place and Routeunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Product Designunmatched
- Security Analysisunmatched
- Security Clearanceunmatched
- Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)unmatched
- Software Administrationunmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Support Documentationunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
- Testingunmatched
- Top Secret Clearanceunmatched
- United States Citizenunmatched
- VHDL Hardware Description Languageunmatched
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