Hardware Design Engineer - Level 3
Assertive ProfessionalsHanover, Maryland, United States · Posted 28 days agoDescription
Assertive Professionals is in search of a Hardware Design Engineer to support our National Security Customer near Hanover, MD.
This is a Funded and immediate position, we are offering a salary range of $234,000-$224,000 and a $10,000 sign-on bonus, plus a $1,200 annual compliance bonus!
We offer an excellent benefits package, including PTO, 401k Match at 5%, Profit Sharing, Company paid Life Insurance, Dental, Vision, STD/LTD, and two options under a national medical plan with employee contribution.
Position Description:
Designs and tests new integrated circuits and hardware components for a wide variety of signal processing applications and research. Designs, documents, and develops code (to include firmware) for digital signal processors or other programmable hardware devices such as Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware. Analyzes the function of existing integrated circuits and hardware components for the purpo~e of reverse engineering the hardware and firmware. Conducts the necessary hardware engineering and related functions to modify and adapt vendor-manufactured hardware to meet special Government needs and contingencies.
- Assist with designing new products and processes and improving and maintaining existing products ·
- Conduct design analysis on components and/or assemblies to assist in the development process by ensuring designs are cost efficient, able to be manufactured, and reliable
- Communicate with the other engineering personnel to coordinate the interrelated design and assure project completion
- Apply ASIC or FPGA place and route (P&R) tools with various libraries to create physical implementations of designs
- Develop and maintain documentation for the P&R design flows(U) Assist with de-processing electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures
- Design new products and processes and improving and maintaining existing products
- Integrate new P&R tools, P&R tool updates, and ASIC or FPGA design libraries into Government's computer aided design environment, documents the use of those tools and libraries, and Assist other physical designers to successfully complete their specific P&R design tasks
- Work with tool and library vendors to develop solutions for designers' P&R design challenges
- Perform the de-processing of electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures
- Lead the designs of new products and processes and improve and maintain existing products
- Provide technical leadership to less experienced engineers
- Perform the de-processing of electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures and develops improved procedures
- Direct and check the work of other hardware design engineers
- Act as internal consultant providing technical guidance on most complex projects
- Oversee the de-processing of electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures
- Develop novel procedures for reverse engineering of new component types
Required Experience and Qualifications:
- TS/SCI with ability to pass a Polygraph
- Twelve (12) years experience as a hardware design engineer in integrated circuit or microelectronic component design or reverse engineering of the same
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or university
- Five (5) years of additional hardware design engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree
- 14 Years of experience Programming in VHDL/FPGA
- Programming on Xilinx FPGAs - any combination of VIRTEX-II Pro, VIRTEX-4, VIRTEX-5, or VIRTEX-6 (8 years)
- Programming on Linux platforms (5 years)
- Experience with Xilinx ISE, Synplify Pro, and Modeltech's Modelsim (5 years)
- Writing pin-level VHDL and clocking constraint files (8 years@ 50%)
- Programming in one or more of the following scripting languages: PERL, sh, bash, csh, or python (1 year)
- Using Linux or Unix for day-to-day activities (5 years)
Desired Experience and Qualifications:
- None
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