Senior Hardware Engineer

Requisition Number: 19473 

Required Travel: 0 - 10%

Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Security Clearance: Ability to Obtain  

Level of Experience: Senior 

 

This opportunity resides with Cyber & Electronic Warfare, a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. HII works within our nation’s intelligence and cyber operations communities to defend our interests in cyberspace. Our deep expertise in network architecture, software and hardware development, cybersecurity and the electromagnetic environment uniquely enables us to support sensitive missions for federal agency partners.

 

Meet HII’s Mission Technologies Division
Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense – the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Our capabilities range from C5ISR, AI and Big Data, cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment, environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class. Find the role that’s right for you. Apply today. We look forward to meeting you.

 

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Job Description

Do you enjoy challenging digital design verification problems? HII Mission Technologies is seeking out-of-the-box thinkers who can uncover difficult-to-activate corner-case bugs and vulnerabilities in the gate-level netlists of FPGA and ASIC designs. 

Candidates for this position will contribute to the team by utilizing industry-standard functional verification tools (e.g., Questa, VCS, Verdi), logical equivalence tools (e.g., OneSpin 360EC), and proprietary software tools to verify design function and integrity. Common verification targets include embedded processors, DSPs, filters, transceivers, data links, systems-on-chip, and decoders. Experience in the cybersecurity, electronic warfare, encryption, radar, and/or satellite communications domains is a plus. 

Essential Job Responsibilities

Candidates will develop models, transactors, stimuli, monitors, and test benches for simulating and uncovering hidden behaviors in gate-level digital netlists. Candidates will be expected to produce clear documentation and test cases demonstrating identified bugs or deviations from the specification. Effective collaboration with teammates to produce cohesive results and create improved processes is required. 

  

Candidates must be U.S. citizens and be willing and able to obtain a DoD security clearance (if not already cleared). 

Minimum Qualifications

9 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 7 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 4 years relevant experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in realted field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience.

 

US Citizenship 

Willingness to obtain a Top-Secret security clearance 

Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field 

Experience with modern digital verification and modeling languages: SystemVerilog, SystemC, C/C++, Matlab, etc. 

Directed, constrained-random, and assertion-based verification techniques at the gate, interface, and transaction levels 

Experience with modern, commercial-grade, functional simulators (e.g., Xcelium, Incisive, Questa, VCS, Riviera-Pro, etc) 

Writing scripts for batched verification tasks: Python, Bash, Tcl, make files. 

Revision control systems for maintaining, sharing, and deploying code: Perforce, git, SVN, etc. 

Familiarity with debugging and isolating issues with gate-level netlists 

Preferred Requirements

•    Familiarity with object-oriented, embedded, assembly, or machine code programming 

•    Software or hardware reverse-engineering (e.g., IDA Pro, Ghidra) 

•    FPGA design or verification 

•    Active Top Secret security clearance 

•    Familiarity with testing and verification techniques for IC trust, assurance, or security 

•    Experience with logical equivalence checkers (e.g., OneSpin 360-EC, ESP, Conformal EC) 

•    Experience with formal ABV 

•    Embedded Software Design for Wireless Radio 

•    Design of Digital Wireless Communications Systems 

•    Experience with DSPs for RF Communications 

•    Experience with Wifi, Cellular, Satellite, or Handheld communications 

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