Associate Staff - Embedded Systems Engineer

About the role

The Electronics for Contested Space Group develops advanced electronic systems and technology for the protection of our Nation’s most important space capabilities. We design and develop state-of-the-art satellites and satellite payloads, novel concepts for resilient space architectures, and the Nation’s most sensitive radars, optics, and passive RF systems. The group also provides engineering rigor and experience to some of the most critical National Security programs through Laboratory-wide collaboration and acts in an advisory capacity to the U.S. Government.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and field embedded systems to support novel space applications.
• Contribute to multi-disciplinary teams executing advanced research and independently solve technical challenges.
• Occasional travel to support field exercises, presentations to sponsors and the community, and other events may be required.

Requirements

• A Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, computer engineering or another relevant technical field with 2 years of experience.
• A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent and at least 3 years of relevant experience will be considered.
• Experience decomposing processing chains into component modules for development.
• Experience developing synthesizable VHDL, Verilog, and/or SystemVerilog.
• Experience implementing FPGA designs in hardware, including the creation of constraint files.
• Experience testing and debugging firmware designs in both simulation and in hardware.
• Experience implementing and integrating with digital interfaces, such as SPI, PCIe and Gigabit Ethernet.
• Laboratory experience, including interface debugging and verification, at the circuit card assembly level.
• Demonstrable ability to:
• Work responsibly and safely in laboratory and assembly environments.
• Develop respectful, productive working relationships.
• Communicate clearly, precisely, and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Solve broad and/or complex technical or engineering problems.
• Learn and apply advanced technical knowledge quickly and proficiently.

Desired Skills

• Expertise in computer architecture, particularly with respect to making trades between bare-metal, or real-time operating systems.
• Familiarity with scripting and task automation leveraging Python, bash, TCL or perl.
• Familiarity with MATLAB, C/C++, Python or other scientific programming languages.
• Experience working with modern development best practices, including use of revision control.
• Hardware design experience, including schematic capture, layout, routing and initial bring up.
• Recent Graduate Hiring Range: $116,400-$140,000
• Experienced Hiring Range: $116,400-$182,200