US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: Yes

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: No

**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.

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!

We are looking for you to join our team as a Principal Digital Verification Engineer based out of San Diego, Ca. As a Digital Engineer at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.

At the Northrop Grumman San Diego campus our Advanced Digital Design organization creates the next generation of communications and signal processing systems, and will take ideas from concept to working systems aboard the worlds most advanced platforms right here in always-sunny San Diego. We design in our campus of labs and on-site advanced manufacturing just minutes from the beach and everything for which southern California is famous. Its work that matters and a career that can takes you places. We seek degreed electrical or computer engineering engineers with hands-on experience in FPGA Verification with VHDL.

**Job Description:**

+ Scope of responsibility includes simulation and verification of FPGA/CPLD designs for wireless systems
+ Candidate is required to have knowledge of modern digital design and verification concepts
+ Opportunity for technical growth and leadership working with wireless products

This position will require onsite work however for this role we are able to offer flexible work arrangements and some remote work will be possible.

This is a dual level requisition which can be filled as a Principal Digital Engineer or Sr. Principal Digital Engineer.

**Basic Qualifications** **Principal Digital Engineer** **:**

+ Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline
+ 5+ years of digital verification engineering experience using industry standard simulation tools (3+ years with an MS degree)
+ Experience in VHDL design and verification for wireless systems
+ FPGA development process experience (requirements definition, conceptual design, detailed design, verification, and production release)
+ Experience working with verification plans, test benches, bus functional models, and RTL debugging
+ Must be a US Citizen with an ability to obtain and maintain a Security Clearance

**Basic Qualifications Sr** **Principal Digital Engineer** **:**

+ Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline
+ 9+ years of digital verification engineering experience using industry standard simulation tools (7+ years with an MS degree)
+ Experience in VHDL design and verification for wireless systems
+ FPGA development process experience (requirements definition, conceptual design, detailed design, verification, and production release)
+ Experience working with verification plans, test benches, bus functional models, and RTL debugging
+ Must be a US Citizen with an ability to obtain and maintain a Security Clearance

**Preferred Qualifications:**

+ Active Security Clearance
+ Experience with scripting languages for Verification automation (Perl, TCL, Bash, and Makefile)
+ Knowledge of Computer Architectures and Digital design (Memories, bus standards, industry standard bus interfaces)
+ Experience with functional verification methodology

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Salary Range: $116,000.00 - $167,400.00Salary Range 2: $138,300.00 - $207,500.00

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.