Early Career R&D Electrical Engineer - FPGA Designer, Onsite

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The Advanced RF Systems department (5365) is seeking a highly motivated FPGA design Engineer to join its team. This position focuses on providing specialized FPGA expertise to aid in the development and fielding of communications and electronic warfare systems. You will be joining a multi-disciplinary team focused on delivering solutions to national security challenges. The ideal candidate will possess strong teamwork skills and a background in hardware design languages (HDL).

On any given day, you may be called on to:

Develop and incorporate innovative technologies including efforts to:

• Design, simulate and implement synthesizable RTL for high performance FPGAs
• Create original designs as well as modify and improve existing FPGA designs
• Write simulation test benches for functional verification
• Design embedded electronic subsystems
• Test and troubleshoot printed wiring assemblies (PWAs) in the lab using power supplies, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other lab equipment
• Create innovative solutions to difficult technical problems
• Working cooperatively with other internal organizations, as well as external production facilities and suppliers
• Troubleshoot problems and support anomaly resolution activities
• Support customer funded advanced development needs
• Provide engineering and programmatic documentation
• Apply knowledge and experience to evaluate and improve work quality, performance, and alignment of results with customer expectations.
• The position will require occasional travel.

Due to the nature of work, successful candidate must be able to work onsite. Relocation provided for those that qualify.

$102,400 - $199,700

* Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q and SCI clearance which may require a polygraph test.

The ideal R&D S&E Electrical Engineer candidate will in addition possess the following:

• Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
• Ability to work independently and collaborate well in a multidisciplinary team of designers and test engineers.
• Outstanding…