Hardware Design Engineer, Level 3 - WOOD Consulting Services

Overview

Hardware Design Engineer Level 3

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Designs and tests new integrated circuits and hardware components for a wide variety of signal processing applications and research. Designs, documents, and develops 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. Analyzes the function of existing integrated circuits and hardware components for the purpose of reverse engineering the hardware and firmware. Conducts the necessary hardware engineering and related functions to modify and adapt vendor-manufactured hardware to meet special Government needs and contingencies.

Security Clearance Requirements:

This position requires all candidates to be U.S. Citizens and possess an active TS/SCI Security Clearance with a Polygraph.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Act as internal consultant providing technical guidance on most complex projects
• Develop novel procedures for reverse engineering of new component types
• Oversee the de-processing of electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures

Qualifications

Required Education & Years of Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or university is required.
  • Five (5) years of additional hardware design engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
• Twelve (12) years experience as an HDE in integrated circuit or microelectronic component design or reverse engineering of the same is required.

Required Skills

• Ten (10) years experience in programming in VHDL.
• Five (5) years experience in programming on Linux platforms.
• Eight (8) years experience in programming on Xilinx FPGAs (any combination of VIRTEX-II Pro, VIRTEX-4, VIRTEX-5, or VIRTEX-6).
• Five (5) years experience with Xilinx ISE, Synplify Pro, and Modeltech's Modelsim.
• Eight (8) years experience in writing pin-level VHDL and clocking constraint files.
• One (1) year experience in programming in one or more of the following scripting languages: PERL, sh, bash, csh, or python.
• Five (5) years experience using LINUX for day-to-day activities.

WOOD Consulting Services, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.