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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!

As a Sr. Principal Software 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.

The Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, Digital Technologies Group, is seeking FPGA Design Engineers to be involved in full life-cycle product development of Radio Frequency Electronic Warfare (RFEW), Infrared Counter Measures (IRCM) and Advanced Target & Surveillance (ATS) Systems.

In this role, you will identify, investigate, design and develop programmable logic solutions, e,g, FPGA or CPLD, for digital electronic equipment, using Hardware Description Language (VHDL, Verilog) or related design capture method, to solve a variety of technical challenges. Test programmable logic designs in lab using custom and/or industry standard tools and equipment to analyze performance and verify functionality meets established design requirements.

This position can be filled at the Principal FPGA or Sr. Principal FPGA Design role:

Basic Qualifications for Principal FPGA Design Engineer:

• B.S. degree in STEM field with a minimum of 5 years of relevant professional work experience OR M.S. degree in a STEM field with a minimum of 3 years of relevant professional experience, or in lieu of degree, an additional 4 years of experience is required.

• FPGA design experience with HDL (VHDL/Verilog) and HVL (SystemVerilog), SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA), UVM for FPGAs, CPLDs and/or ASICs

• Ability to work in teams and communicate clearly across various levels of engineers.

• Ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into programmable logic requirements, design, and test specifications.

• US Citizenship and must have interim secret clearance prior to starting. Once started, must have the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.

Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal FPGA Design Engineer:

• B.S. degree in STEM field with a minimum of 9 years of relevant professional work experience OR M.S. degree in STEM field with a minimum of 7+ years of relevant professional work experience or in lieu of degree, an additional 4 years of experience is required.

• FPGA design experience with HDL (VHDL/Verilog) and HVL (SystemVerilog), SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA), UVM for FPGAs, CPLDs and/or ASICs

• Ability to work in teams and communicate clearly across various levels of engineers.

• Ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into programmable logic requirements, design, and test specifications.

• US Citizenship and must have interim secret clearance prior to starting. Once started, must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret DoD Security Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Significant experience in HDL (VHDL/Verilog) and HVL (SystemVerilog), SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA), UVM for PLDs, FPGAs, and/or ASICs

• Experience with Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools: Mentor Graphics ModelSim/QuestaSim, Xilinx, Altera/Intel

• Experience achieving timing closure on FPGA designs.

• Experience in Microprocessor (PowerPC, Intel-based, SoC) designs.

• Implementation of Digital Signal or Image Processing algorithms on FPGAs

• Experience developing in MATLAB/Simulink

• Experience with high level programming languages (C/C++)

• A strong team player who also has the ability to work independently.

• Active DOD Secret Clearance

Salary Range: $112,600 - $169,000

Salary Range 2: $139,700 - $209,500

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

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 application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

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 all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.