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Leidos · 5 hours ago

Hardware Design Engineer

Arlington, VA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

$87K/yr - $157K/yr

4+ years exp

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. The Hardware Design Engineer will work with a multi-disciplined design team to design, develop, simulate, and integrate circuit card designs for DSP and RF sensor systems.

ComputerGovernmentInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyNational SecuritySoftware

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

Responsibilities

Collaborate with a multi-disciplined engineering design team to design, test and integrate sophisticated digital designs hardware and firmware including RF sensor systems

Review and analyze high level system requirements, participate in defining, deriving and allocating these requirements into lower-level hardware requirements

Translate conceptual designs into design specifications and implement within detailed electrical designs involving electrical schematics, complete bills of materials (BOMs), Printed Circuit Board Design (PCB), layout techniques, documents and fabrication drawings

Analyze, design, develop and test embedded electronic circuit card assemblies (CCA’s) containing Programmable Logic Devices (RFSoC, SoC, FPGA), data conversation, signal processing/filtering, high speed digital and analog, RF & amplification, power supply & power management circuitry

Analyze schematic diagrams for either custom or commercial-off-the shelf (COTS) electronic hardware involving high-speed digital and/or analog circuitry in associated FPGA-centric systems

Analyze, design, simulate, and implement designs which interface to common high-speed signaling standards such as SERDES, PLLs, and/or protocols such as PCIe Gen4, JESD204B/C, LVDS, etc

Evaluate, select, specify, design, modify, test, and/or integrate sensors, electronic modules (custom and COTS), cables, connectors, power subsystems

Apply basic knowledge of HDL design using VHDL/Verilog to write, simulate, synthesize and test designs used within various logic devices (SoC,FPGA/CPLD)

Conduct experimental tests on equipment, evaluate results, followed by specification development for selecting components and equipment for deliverable systems

Generate and maintain requirements documents, functional specification documents, interface control documents and engineering drawings while applying configuration management policies

Develop project test plans and test procedures, provide test planning support, assist in the execution of both lab testing and field testing

Provide field support planning, mobilization/de-mobilization support, and other field support in general

Interact with outside customers, suppliers, and functional peer groups

Provide status reports to project managers and/or project lead as required

Some travel and work at remote sites for limited time periods will be required

Qualification

High-speed digital designSchematic entryPCB designHDL design (VHDL/Verilog)Embedded systemsLab test equipmentRevision controlDigital Signal ProcessingC/C++ developmentProblem-solving skillsCollaboration skills

Required

BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or related degree

Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience

Ability to be granted a security clearance

Able to work and collaborate within a multidisciplinary engineering environment

Strong debug and problem-solving skills

Familiarity or experience with one or more of the following: Schematic entry / PCB design tools (Altium, Cadence Allegro/OrCAD, KiCAD, or similar)

Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design involving parts selection, BOM creation, placement, high speed signal routing, fabrication drawings and documentation

HDL Design / Development (VHDL/Verilog) with System-On-Chip devices (SOC's), FPGA's, CPLD/s, and/or Microcontrollers

Vendor Design tools and Design Environments (IDE's) such as Xilinx Vivado, Vitis, Quartus, Questa Sim, Libero, Synplicity, etc

Lab test equipment – Oscilloscope, Voltmeter, Logic Analyzer, Spectrum Analyzer

Revision control (git, SVN, ClearCase, etc.)

Interfaces: DDRx, ADC/DACs, SerDes, PCIe, JTAG

Hands on Lab testing and Integration

Preferred

Master's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Existing Secret (or above) Clearance

Experience supporting or leading different phases of the product development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, system design, product development, integration, test, technical documentation and review of complex systems

Design, testing, integration and troubleshooting electronic circuits within embedded systems including digital, analog and radio frequency (RF) subsystems

Working Experience with the following: High speed PCB design techniques (> 1GHz)

DSP fundamentals and FPGA implementation

Schematic/PCB design tools such as Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro/OrCAD or KiCAD, or similar

Simulation / Validation and Designer-Level Testbench generation (VHDL/SystemVerilog) – using vendor tools or third party (Xilinx simulator, Siemens Modelsim/Questa, etc.)

Script Generation (Perl, TCL, Python, etc)

Microchip EDA tools and flows (Synopsys, Cadence, etc.)

System Verilog / UVM

High speed protocols like JESD204B, LVDS, PCIe, SERDES

Performance characteristics of Analog Data Converters (ADCs/DACs)

Digital Signal Processing (DSP) modeling using tools like MATLAB/Simulink

C/C++ language software development for embedded, real-time systems