Design Engineer for High Performance Computing Mid to Experienced Level (Maryland)
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Job Location:
Fort Meade, MD - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 105262 - 192764
Posted on:
12 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Summary
As an Engineering and Physical Science professional you will use your skills to create the systems and tools that will be used to enhance the operation of intelligence. You will advise administer and perform scientific projects such as planning designing and constructing specialized equipment and ensuring adherence to sound engineering and scientific standards and principles.
With the ever-increasing technological complexities in the world of supercomputers we need talented computer and electrical engineers to be part of our team architecting designing and verifying the next generation of high performance computing solutions (HPCS) that will support of our mission. Our goal is to provide supercomputers of the highest quality to ensure the success of the NSA and its partners.
The areas of responsibility may include one or more of the following:
- Accelerating application performance using Register Transfer Level (RTL) design
- Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) firmware development and integration
- RTL design closure using logic simulation functional verification synthesis and timing analysis
- Printed Circuit Board (PCB) logic design simulation and test
- PCB layout - Signal Integrity / Power Integrity
- Commercial systems acquisition and contracting
- Create and maintain documentation on technical information
- Operate specialized scientific and technical equipment
- Attend conferences and communicate with people in a particular technical field to keep abreast of new technologies and information
- Conduct research including studies experiments and investigations
- Research emerging technologies for application(s) within the Agency
- Serve as a subject matter expert to support research and development efforts
- Work with customers to clarify their needs and to determine how their needs can be met
- Modeling and simulation to evaluate design alternatives
Conditions of employment
- All applicants and employees are subject to random drug testing in accordance with Executive Order 12564.
Qualifications
FULL PERFORMANCE
With a degree in Engineering entry is with a Bachelors degree plus 3 years of relevant experience or a Masters degree plus 1 year of relevant experience or a Doctoral degree and no experience. With a degree in either (1) Physics or Astronomy from an accredited college or university or (2) a relevant professional technical field (for example chemistry architecture computer science mathematics hydrology geology) entry is with a Bachelors degree plus 3 years of relevant experience or a Masters or Doctoral degree plus 1 year of relevant experience. Relevant experience must be in one or more of the following: digital equipment design assembling computers electronic design automation (EDA) tools hardware description language (HDL) or printed circuit board (PCB).
SENIOR
Entry is with a Bachelors degree plus 7 years of relevant experience or a Masters degree plus 5 years of relevant experience or a Doctoral degree plus 3 years of relevant experience. Degree must be in either (1) professional Engineering (2) Physics or Astronomy from an accredited college or (3) a relevant professional technical field (for example chemistry architecture computer science mathematics hydrology geology). Relevant experience must be in one or more of the following: digital equipment design assembling computers electronic design automation (EDA) tools hardware description language (HDL) or printed circuit board (PCB). At least one year of project management experience OR project management certification (for example DAWIA PMP) is also required.
Education
The qualifications listed are the minimum acceptable to be considered for the position.
Degree must be in professional Engineering Physics or Astronomy from an accredited college or university or a relevant professional technical field (e.g. chemistry architecture computer science mathematics hydrology geology).
For all of the above degrees if program is not ABET accredited it must include specified coursework.*
*Specified coursework includes courses in differential and integral calculus and 5 of the following 18 areas: (a) statics or dynamics (b) strength of materials/stress-strain relationships (c) fluid mechanics hydraulics (d) thermodynamics (e) electromagnetic fields (f) nature and properties of materials/relating particle and aggregate structure to properties (g) solid state electronics (h) microprocessor applications (i) computer systems (j) signal processing (k) digital design (l) systems and control theory (m) circuits or generalized circuits (n) communication systems (o) power systems (p) computer networks (q) software development (r) Any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics such as optics heat transfer or soil mechanics.
Additional information
Pay: Salary offers are based on candidates education level and years of experience relevant to the position and also take into account information provided by the hiring manager/organization regarding the work level for the position.
Salary Range: $105262 - $192764 (Full Performance Senior)
Salary range varies by location work level and relevant experience to the position.
Training will be provided based on the selectees needs and experience.
Benefits: NSA offers a comprehensive benefits package.
Work Schedule: This is a full-time position Monday - Friday with basic 8hr/day work requirement between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. (flexible).
Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government passionate about the ideals of our American republic and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.
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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- JProfiler
- Splunk
- Performance Testing
- Fiddler
- Apache
- HP Performance Center
- LoadRunner
- New Relic
- Scalability
- J2EE
- Java
- Scripting
