Principal Digital Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

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.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission‑enabling solutions for global security. Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills and innovative technologies to develop, design, produce, and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter.

Come be a part of our mission!

We are looking for you to join our team as a Principal Digital Engineer based out of Woodland Hills, CA. As a Principal Digital Engineer at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise‑wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model‑based Engineering, Dev Sec Ops , and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter.

Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly, and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team‑oriented with a focus on team empowerment and shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.

The Digital Engineer will be responsible for design and verification of digital systems on a safety‑critical development program. The candidate is required to have extensive knowledge of digital design and verification concepts. The candidate will possess strong communication skills as he or she will interface with our development program leads, senior scientists, engineering, and manufacturing organizations throughout the program lifecycle. The individual will also have technical foresight to integrate the appropriate requirements, processes, procedures, and tools as this development program will lead to the future generation of navigation, video, and cockpit products.

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with 5 years of relevant experience;
  Master’s degree in a STEM field with 3 years of relevant experience;
  PhD in a STEM field with 1 year of relevant experience
• Experience with High‑Speed Digital Design and Verification
• Experience with FPGA/SOC/ASIC implementation (VHDL/Verilog, Synthesis, Timing Closure)
• Experience with design processes including hardware requirements definition, conceptual design, detailed design, verification, production transitioning
• U.S. Citizenship is required
• A current/active U.S. Government Secret Clearance is required
• Ability to work onsite full‑time in Woodland Hills, CA

• Experience with V&V technologies (System Verilog, UVM, Hardware‑In‑Loop)
• Knowledge of Computer Architecture (Bus standards, Interrupts, Memory)
• Experience with Model‑based Engineering (MATLAB, Simulink, Fixed Point vs. Floating Point)
• Experience with Sensors and Digital Signal Processing
• Cost Account Management (CAM) certification/experience
• Experience with safety critical designs (DO‑254)
• Communication, team building, and facilitation skills
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with team, upper management, and customers

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