Job description

The Specialized Recruiting Group is actively hiring a Hardware Design Engineer with TS/SCI clearance and FULL SCOPE polygraph to join our Enterprise Services & Solutions Division working in Herndon, Reston, or McLean. We are responsible for providing field programmable gate array (FPGA) and printed circuit board (PCB) software and hardware engineering services. In this role you will design and test new integrated circuits and hardware components for a wide variety of signal processing applications and research.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Must possess an active TS/SCI clearance with FS polygraph
• Experience as an HDE in an integrated circuit or microelectronic component design or reverse engineering of the same is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or university is required, or five years of additional hardware design engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Experience with troubleshooting, breadboarding or prototyping electronics or setups with resistors, capacitors.
• Strong C and Python programming skills; as well as experience coding/writing code for development platforms as mentioned above
• Experience in system analysis
• Familiarity with tools used in Failure Analysis is a plus, Familiar with Printed Circuit Board creation
• Experience with semiconductor physics or fab knowledge is a plus.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and test new integrated circuits and hardware components for a wide variety of signal processing applications and research
• Design, document, and develop code (to include firmware) for digital signal processors or other programmable hardware devices such as Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware
• Analyze the function of existing integrated circuits and hardware components for the purpose of reverse engineering the hardware and firmware
• Conduct the necessary hardware engineering and related functions to modify and adapt vendor-manufactured hardware to meet special Government needs and contingencies.
• Assist with designing new products and processes and improving and maintaining existing products
• Communicate with the other engineering personnel to coordinate the interrelated design and assure project completion
• Conduct design analysis on components and/or assemblies to assist in the development process by ensuring designs are cost efficient, able to be manufactured, and reliable; Apply ASIC or FPGA place and route (P&R) tools with various libraries to create physical implementations of designs
• Develop and maintain documentation for the P&R design flows; Assist with de-processing electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures
• Design new products and processes and improving and maintaining existing products
• Work with tool and library vendors to develop solutions for designers’ P&R design challenges; perform the de-processing of electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures
• Integrate new P&R tools, P&R tool updates, and ASIC or FPGA design libraries into Government’s computer-aided design environment, documents the use of those tools and libraries, and assist other physical designers to successfully complete their specific P&R design tasks
• Lead the designs of new products and processes and improve and maintain existing products
• Provide technical leadership to less experienced engineers
• Perform the de-processing of electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures and develops improved procedures
• Direct and check the work of other hardware design engineers

Our client, founded in 2000, is a leading language and intelligence services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies. They are an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, which is uncommon within our business sector. We see this as a significant strength, and it shows as they are consistently ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Up to $253,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Experience level:

• 1 year

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Herndon, VA: Reliably commute or willing to relocate with an employer-provided relocation package (Required)

Application Question(s):

• By applying, you are acknowledging that you currently hold an active TOP SECRET security clearance with access to SCI and have a FULL SCOPE POLY. Please confirm:

Experience:

• Hardware Design Engineering: 1 year (Required)
• FPGA: 1 year (Required)
• Printed Circuit Board (PBC): 1 year (Required)

Security clearance:

• Top Secret (Required)

Work Location: In person

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