Digital Design Engineer jobs in Massachusetts

Job Title: Digital Design Engineer

Job Location: Lexington, MA, 02421

Onsite Requirements:

• Digital design - Electrical/Electronic experience
• FPGA experience
• Hardware Design experience.

Job Description:

• We are looking for a Digital Design Engineer experienced in the design and implementation of architectures and algorithms targeting System on a Chip and FPGA processing architectures.
• Knowledge of secure system development or interest and willingness to learn is necessary to successfully carry out this position.
• You will help us create advanced technologies for ensuring security and resiliency of next-generation mission-critical systems relevant to national security.
• Work will include, but not limited to, leading the design and implementation of secure embedded system architectures to carry out mission critical processing tasks.
• Our R&D activities in this area focus on implementing foundational technologies, security subsystems, and testbeds for such mission-critical systems, including encryptors for secure communication and storage, and secure processors.
• Development will involve system level trade space analysis based on a set of functional and security requirements.
• Success is measured in the ability of the candidate to clearly present reason for design level decisions and then realize the design in a functional prototype demonstrating that it meets all system functional and security requirements.

Required Skills:

• Knowledge of secure system development or interest and willingness to learn.
• Experience with the implementation and testing of cryptographic algorithms or interest and willingness to learn.
• Demonstrated ability to perform trade-space analysis and clearly communicate findings.
• Demonstrated proficiency in embedded systems development leveraging VHDL/Verilog hardware description language; embedded C experience to validate system functionality.
• Demonstrated ability to design and validate high speed interfaces.
• Ability to read schematics and IC chip data sheets to understand software/firmware interface requirements.
• Candidates must be enthusiastic, innovative, and motivated self-starters able to work independently, or with a group, to achieve program requirements.
• Candidates must possess strong oral and written communications skills, and must be able to clearly present results

Preferred Skills:

• Requirements analysis, trade-space analysis, and system engineering
• Engineering, manufacturing, board building in production environments.
• Hardware and software testing
• Knowledge of government requirements, documentation, and certification process of DoD system
  

Qualification

Assessment

Must Have

Degree Level

Bachelor's Degree

Yes

Design

Experience creating and maintaining accurate and detailed design files

5 years

Experience with complex, high-speed HDL based implementations of algorithms

5 years

Experience with design/HDL analysis, including high speed and low power design

5 years

Performing basic design calculations

5 years

Product Design

5 years

Electrical/Electronics

Electrical/Electronics - Digital

5 years

Hardware

Hardware Design

5 years

Programming

Development experience on a Linux platform

5 years

VHDL / Verilog

5 years

Signal Processing

ASICs, FPGA, VLSI, and Mixed Signal Circuit Design

5 years

Software

Configuration Management Tools (GIT, SVN)

5 years

VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog Firmware Development (Modelsim)

5 years

Systems

Experience with Embedded Linux

5 years

** 3rd party and subcontract staffing agencies are not eligible for partnership on this position. 3rd party subcontractors need not apply.

This position requires candidates to be eligible to work in the United States, directly for an employer, without sponsorship now or anytime in the future.

This client is a US Federal Government contractor and is legally required to hire US Citizens. US Citizens will only be considered for this role.

Due to the nature of the work, a United States Government Clearance is required to be eligible for the position. **