Hardware Design Engineer

Assertive Professionals is seeking a Hardware Design Engineer to support a National Security customer near Hanover, MD. This is a funded, immediate position.

Benefits

• $5,000 sign-on bonus
• $2,000 in reimbursable relocation expenses
• $1,200 annual compliance bonus
• PTO
• 401k match at 5%
• Profit sharing
• Company-paid life insurance
• Dental and vision coverage
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Two options under a national medical plan with employee contribution

Responsibilities

• Design and test new integrated circuits and hardware components for signal processing applications and research
• Design, document, and develop code (including firmware) for digital signal processors, ASICs, and FPGAs
• Analyze existing integrated circuits and hardware components for reverse engineering purposes
• Modify and adapt vendor-manufactured hardware to meet special Government needs
• Assist in designing new products and processes, and improving existing products
• Conduct design analysis to ensure cost efficiency, manufacturability, and reliability
• Coordinate with engineering personnel to ensure 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 P&R design flows
• De-process electronic components and retrieve stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures
• Integrate new P&R tools, updates, and design libraries into the Government’s computer-aided design environment
• Document tool and library usage and assist other designers with P&R tasks
• Work with vendors to develop solutions for P&R design challenges
• Lead the design of new products and processes, and maintain existing products
• Provide technical leadership to less experienced engineers
• Develop improved reverse engineering procedures
• Direct and review the work of other hardware design engineers
• Act as an internal consultant for complex technical projects
• Oversee de-processing of electronic components and firmware retrieval
• Develop novel procedures for reverse engineering new component types

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance with ability to pass a polygraph
• Twelve (12) years of experience as a hardware design engineer in integrated circuit or microelectronic component design or reverse engineering
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or university (or five (5) years of additional hardware design engineering experience in lieu of a degree)

Skills

• 14 years of experience programming in VHDL/FPGA
• 8 years of experience programming on Xilinx FPGAs (Virtex-II Pro, Virtex-4, Virtex-5, or Virtex-6)
• 5 years of experience programming on Linux platforms
• 5 years of experience with Xilinx ISE, Synplify Pro, and Modeltech’s ModelSim
• 8 years of experience writing pin-level VHDL and clocking constraint files (50% effort)
• 1 year of experience in one or more scripting languages: PERL, sh, bash, csh, or Python
• 5 years of experience using Linux or Unix for day-to-day activities