Digital Engineer

Chipton-Ross is seeking a Digital Engineer 3 for a contract opportunity in San Diego, CA.

• BS + 5 years of experience in related STEM field; MS + 3 years of experience.
• Significant hands‑on current experience in the field of VHDL design.
• Candidate must have excellent written and communication skills and be able to work independently and within groups.
• Candidate must have working knowledge of formal engineering development process, VHDL design and verification.
• An active Secret Clearance is required to start.

• Design, develop, integrate and test VHDL-based digital designs for our end‑user customers and businesses, primarily focused on software defined radio VHDL firmware code bases.
• Work using FPGA programming development tools and environments.
• Work with multi‑disciplinary teams, such as with Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering, Hardware, and Integration & Test.
• Work in waterfall or Agile software development environment.
• Analyze system concept of operation, requirements and design documents to resolve functional, performance or timing issues.

• 8 or more years of professional technical experience.
• Experience with VHDL design and OSVVM verification for FPGA firmware.
• Experience with AMD/Xilinx series including Zynq, Kintex, Ultrascale, Versal family of devices.
• Experience with Communication Protocols (I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, Ethernet).
• Experience with Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools:
  Vivado, Quartus, Questa Sim.
• Knowledgeable in FPGA physical constraints and achieving timing closure.
• Generation of Test benches and support of formal VHDL Verification.
• Experience with board RO system level debug using test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
• Experience with translating systems requirements into programmable logic requirements, design documents, and test specifications.
• Candidate should have hands on experience with DoD communications systems.

Bachelor's in Science is required. School must be accredited.

9/80 workweek. 1st shift.

Applicants responding to this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements by currently possessing the ability to view classified government information.