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Senior Principal Digital Verification Engineer

In Person (San Diego, California, United States of America)
Full Time
$146,300 – $219,500

Location:
San Diego, California, United States of America

About Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman solves the toughest problems in space, aeronautics, defense and cyberspace to meet the ever-evolving needs of our customers worldwide. Our 90,000 employees are Defining Possible every day using science, technology and engineering to create and deliver advanced systems, products and services. Northrop Grumman careers and internships are as varied as your interests, with a lifetime of potential that will allow you to work together with people from many backgrounds, personal passions and disciplines.

Explore a career engineering what’s possible as a Digital Verification Engineer in San Diego, CA.

What You'll Get to Do:

Our Advanced Digital Engineering organization creates the next generation of communications and signal processing systems and will take ideas from concept to working systems aboard the world’s most advanced platforms. We bring design to life in our San Diego labs and have on-site advanced manufacturing just minutes from the beach Southern California is famous for.

As a Digital Verification Engineer at Northrop Grumman, you will have an opportunity to be a part of an organization that is collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation. 

We’re asking: are you ready to challenge the impossible and define possible? If you have hands-on experience in FPGA Development with VHDL, apply today.  

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Scope of responsibility includes simulation and verification of FPGA/CPLD designs, requirements, and system validation

  • Candidate is required to have knowledge of modern digital design and verification concepts

  • Communicate effectively with members of cross‐functional teams and program management

  • Opportunity to advance and form the verification process for wireless products

  • Proven ability to drive complex technical problems to closure

  • Proven ability to lead product delivery

Basic Qualifications Senior Principal Digital Engineer:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline with 9 years of digital verification engineering experience using industry standard simulation tools; 7 years with an MS degree; 4 years with PhD.
  • Experience in VHDL design and verification methodologies for wireless systems
  • FPGA development process experience (requirements definition, conceptual design, detailed design, verification, and production release)
  • Experience developing verification plans, test benches, bus functional models, and HW-SW integration debugging
  • Experience with Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools such as QuestaSim
  • Clearance: Candidate must have an active or current/in-scope Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain higher level clearances 

Preferred Qualifications Principal and Senior Principal:

  • Experience with scripting languages for Verification automation (Perl, TCL, Bash, and Makefile)
  • Knowledge of Computer Architectures and Digital design (Memories, bus standards, microprocessors)
  • Experience with functional verification methodology for the full life cycle of products
  • SoC verification and hardware accelerated simulation experience

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