US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: Yes

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

**Description**

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our worlds biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

The Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems 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!

The Payload and Ground Systems Division seeks a talented **FPGA Design Engineer** with signal processing experience to join our growing team in **Rolling Meadows, IL** .

As an FPGA Design Engineer, you will join our diverse team and be responsible for:

+ Research, requirements analysis and systems architecture, design, coding, test bench design, verification, synthesis and place & route for our digital signal processing products
+ Work with digital subsystem and circuit card designs that utilize the latest FPGA technologies from all major vendors and device families including Xilinx, Intel (Altera), and Microsemi (Actel) and support high speed interfaces, Radio Frequency (RF) and Electro-Optical (EO) DSP, controls, data links, embedded processing and processor interfaces.
+ Expertise in digital signal processing, modeling and simulation, and circuit level design and test are desired for this position
+ Active or Current Top Secret Security Clearance is required for this position

_This position may be filled at either an Engineer or a Principal Level based on the qualifications listed below._

**Basic Qualifications:**

_FPGA Design Engineer_ **_Level 2_** _:_

+ Bachelors degree in a STEM field (ideally Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline) with a minimum 2 years of FPGA/ASIC design experience OR Master's
+ Experience with RTL coding for FPGAs or ASICs
+ Proficient in FPGA design flow including items such as RTL/gate level simulation, synthesis, place and route, static timing analysis, and power analysis
+ Experience with FPGA simulation tools to verify performance of complex RTL blocks
+ Experience with Xilinx or Intel/Altera FPGA architectures and design tools
+ Familiarity with revision control, documentation, planning, and review systems similar to GIT/SVN/ClearCase, DOORS, Jira/Rally/ClearQuest
+ Proven skills to include: Adaptive, creative, collaborative, comfortable working independently, enjoys solving difficult problems while communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally
+ US Citizen and Current Top Secret Security Clearance (debriefing less than 2 years)

_Principal FPGA Design Engineer_ **_Level 3_** _:_

+ Bachelors degree in a STEM field (ideally Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline) with a minimum 5 years of FPGA/ASIC design experience; OR Master's with a minimum 3 years of experience; Or a PhD
+ Experience with RTL coding for FPGAs or ASICs
+ Proficient in FPGA design flow including items such as RTL/gate level simulation, synthesis, place and route, static timing analysis, and power analysis
+ Experience with FPGA simulation tools to verify performance of complex RTL blocks
+ Experience with Xilinx or Intel/Altera FPGA architectures and design tools
+ Familiarity with revision control, documentation, planning, and review systems similar to GIT/SVN/ClearCase, DOORS, Jira/Rally/ClearQuest
+ Proven skills to include: Adaptive, creative, collaborative, comfortable working independently, enjoys solving difficult problems while communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally
+ US Citizen and Current Top Secret Security Clearance (debriefing less than 2 years)

**Preferred Qualifications:**

+ Advanced knowledge of VHDL/Verilog, C, Python or other scripting languages
+ Proficiency in High level synthesis (Xilinx Vivado HLS AND/OR Mentor Catapult HLS) with C++ Experience developing in MATLAB/Simulink
+ Strong knowledge of DSP structures and techniques
+ Implementation of Digital Signal or Image Processing algorithms on FPGAs
+ Experience with Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools: Mentor Graphics ModelSim/QuestaSim, Synplify, Xilinx ISE/ Vivado, Intel Quartus, Altera SOPC Builder, Altera Qsys, DSP Builder
+ Expertise achieving timing closure on FPGA designs and generating test benches
+ Experience working with or developing test benches using System Verilog and Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)
+ Experience debugging down to the hardware level & experience using Signal Generators, Logic Analyzers, Digital Oscilloscopes and Embedded FPGA Debugging tools
+ An advanced degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with a minimum 5 years of digital electronics design experience
+ Active or Current Top Secret Security Clearance with SCI

**_Additional $10k sign-on bonus for selected candidates who possess an ACTIVE TS/SCI clearance, and an additional $5k sign-on bonuses to selected candidates who possess an active Polygraph._**

The Northrop Grumman Payload and Ground Systems Division is a strategic partner specializing in delivering intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions for classified and unclassified missions in the space domain. We provide integrated classified support in the form of space domain awareness, satellite mission operations, satellite command and control and development and deployment of restricted payload solutions.

**Northrop Grumman offers a competitive and robust benefits program.**

_As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:_

Medical

Dental & Vision coverage

401k

Educational Assistance

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions

Paid Time Off

Health & Wellness Resources

Employee Discounts

Flexible Schedules (For example the ability to work a 9/80 work schedule, which allows an employee to work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday and take every other Friday off of work)

**For more details please visit our total rewards site or chat with one of our recruiters to learn more.**

**Link:** **www.northropgrumman.com/benefits**

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Salary Range: $86,600.00 - $129,800.00Salary Range 2: $106,500.00 - $159,700.00

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

**The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority** . The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/ .

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO . U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.