Sr Principal Engineer Digital

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: SAP TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. We are looking for you to join our team as a Sr. Principal Digital Engineer based in McClellan, CA . The Northrop Grumman Northern California campus our Advanced Digital Design 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 offer a wide variety of professional development opportunities, mentorship by senior engineers, and access to cutting-edge tools and technologies like Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Software-Defined Radios (SDRs). We seek degreed electrical or computer engineering engineers with hands-on experience in FPGA Design and Verification with VHDL. Roles and Responsibilities: Responsible for research, design, and development for digital designs associated with multi-function software defined radios Work with evaluation boards to test proposed designs Support the implementation of digital FPGA hardware architecture and algorithms Collaborate with Systems Engineering to ensure firmware design meets system level requirements Review designs and analysis May lead a team of Digital VHDL Engineers Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principle Digital Engineer: Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and 8 years of related experience, or a master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 6 years of related experience, or PhD in a STEM discipline with 4 years of experience  Must be a US Citizen in order to meet the security clearance requirement  Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance FPGA design experience with VHDL or Verilog Experience with AMD/Xilinx 7 (Zynq, Kintex and Ultrascale) or Versal family of devices Experience with Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools such as Vivado and QuestaSim Experience with board or system level debug using test equipment and internal hardware analyzers Generation of Test Benches Preferred Qualifications for Sr. Principle Digital Engineer: Experience with VHDL Knowledgeable in FPGA physical constraints and achieving timing closure Experience with DSP and MATLAB Support of formal VHDL Verification Active/Current Secret Clearance or higher level What We Can