US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: Yes

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: 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.

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. 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.

This is work that matters and a career that can take you places. If you have hands-on experience in FPGA Development with VHDL, apply today.

_This position may be filled as a Principal FPGA Digital Engineer or a Sr. Principal FPGA Digital Engineer_

**Basic Qualifications Principal FPGA Digital Engineer:**

+ 5 years of relevant professional experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline; 3 years with Masters; 0 years with a PhD
+ Experience with RTL design or Advanced /verification
+ **CLEARANCE** : Active DoD Security Clearance at the Secret Level (or above) is required for consideration

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

+ 9 years of relevant professional experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline; 7 years with Masters; 4 years with a PhD
+ Experience with VHDL design or Advanced /verification for FPGAs
+ Must be a self-starter capable of performing assigned tasks with minimal direction.
+ Experience with translating system requirements into programmable logic requirements, design documents, and test specifications
+ **CLEARANCE** : Active DoD Security Clearance at the Secret Level (or above) is required for consideration

**Preferred Qualifications:**

+ Experience with VHDL design for FPGAs (Logic and SoCs)
+ Experience with AMD/Xilinx 7 series (Zynq, Kintex and Ultrascale) family of devices.
+ Experience with Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools: Vivado, Quartus, QuestaSim.
+ Knowledgeable in FPGA physical constraints and achieving timing closure.
+ Experience with board or system level debug using test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
+ Experience with Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS)
+ Generation of Test Benches and support of formal VHDL Verification
+ Active Security Clearance

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Salary Range: $111,600.00 - $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.