Hardware Design Engineer

The Advanced Warfare Technology Division (AWT) of the Leidos Innovations Center (LInC) is looking for a Hardware Design Engineer to work with a multi-disciplined design team (electrical & mechanical engineers systems engineers software engineers etc.) to design develop simulate and integrate challenging circuit card designs for DSP and RF sensor systems based on given project requirements. Candidate will have a strong hardware background in high-speed digital circuit design schematic entry printed-circuit board fabrication and conduction-cooled circuit card assembly design in support of a fast paced multi-disciplinary design team. This role will also support integration test and verification in the final products.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a multi-disciplined engineering design team to design test and integrate sophisticated digital designs hardware and firmware including RF sensor systems.

• Review and analyze high level system requirements participate in defining deriving and allocating these requirements into lower-level hardware requirements.

• Translate conceptual designs into design specifications and implement within detailed electrical designs involving electrical schematics complete bills of materials (BOMs) Printed Circuit Board Design (PCB) layout techniques documents and fabrication drawings.

• Analyze design develop and test embedded electronic circuit card assemblies (CCAs) containing Programmable Logic Devices (RFSoC SoC FPGA) data conversation signal processing/filtering high speed digital and analog RF & amplification power supply & power management circuitry.

• Analyze schematic diagrams for either custom or commercial-off-the shelf (COTS) electronic hardware involving high-speed digital and/or analog circuitry in associated FPGA-centric systems.

• Analyze design simulate and implement designs which interface to common high-speed signaling standards such as SERDES PLLs and/or protocols such as PCIe Gen4 JESD204B/C LVDS etc.

• Evaluate select specify design modify test and/or integrate sensors electronic modules (custom and COTS) cables connectors power subsystems.

• Apply basic knowledge of HDL design using VHDL/Verilog to write simulate synthesize and test designs used within various logic devices (SoCFPGA/CPLD).

• Conduct experimental tests on equipment evaluate results followed by specification development for selecting components and equipment for deliverable systems.

• Generate and maintain requirements documents functional specification documents interface control documents and engineering drawings while applying configuration management policies.

• Develop project test plans and test procedures provide test planning support assist in the execution of both lab testing and field testing.

• Provide field support planning mobilization/de-mobilization support and other field support in general.

• Interact with outside customers suppliers and functional peer groups.

• Provide status reports to project managers and/or project lead as required.

• Some travel and work at remote sites for limited time periods will be required.

Basic Qualifications:

• BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or related degree

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience

• Ability to be granted a security clearance

• Able to work and collaborate within a multidisciplinary engineering environment.

• Strong debug and problem-solving skills

• Familiarity or experience with one or more of the following:

  • Schematic entry / PCB design tools (Altium Cadence Allegro/OrCAD KiCAD or similar)

  • Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design involving parts selection BOM creation placement high speed signal routing fabrication drawings and documentation.

  • HDL Design / Development (VHDL/Verilog) with System-On-Chip devices (SOCs) FPGAs CPLD/s and/or Microcontrollers.

  • Vendor Design tools and Design Environments (IDEs) such as Xilinx Vivado Vitis Quartus Questa Sim Libero Synplicity etc.

  • Lab test equipment Oscilloscope Voltmeter Logic Analyzer Spectrum Analyzer

  • Revision control (git SVN ClearCase etc.)

  • Interfaces: DDRx ADC/DACs SerDes PCIe JTAG

  • Hands on Lab testing and Integration

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

• Existing Secret (or above) Clearance

• Experience supporting or leading different phases of the product development lifecycle including requirements analysis system design product development integration test technical documentation and review of complex systems.

• Design testing integration and troubleshooting electronic circuits within embedded systems including digital analog and radio frequency (RF) subsystems.

• Working Experience with the following:

  • High speed PCB design techniques (> 1GHz)

  • DSP fundamentals and FPGA implementation

  • Schematic/PCB design tools such as Altium Designer Cadence Allegro/OrCAD or KiCAD or similar.

  • Simulation / Validation and Designer-Level Testbench generation (VHDL/SystemVerilog) using vendor tools or third party (Xilinx simulator Siemens Modelsim/Questa etc.)

  • Script Generation (Perl TCL Python etc)

  • Microchip EDA tools and flows (Synopsys Cadence etc.)

  • System Verilog / UVM

  • High speed protocols like JESD204B LVDS PCIe SERDES

  • Performance characteristics of Analog Data Converters (ADCs/DACs)

  • Digital Signal Processing (DSP) modeling using tools like MATLAB/Simulink

  • C/C language software development for embedded real-time systems

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