Staff Engineer Digital Communications
Company | Northrop Grumman |
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Location | San Diego, CA, USA |
Salary | $188200 – $282200 |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 12 Years with Bachelors Degree in Electrical, Computer or related Engineering discipline with specialty in Digital Communications; 10 Years with Masters; 8 Years with PhD.
- Experience in the design and development of digital communications systems including modulation, signal & receiver design, noise processes, detection, equalization, coding, synchronization, and multi-access communications
- Experience in Link budget development, modeling, and testing
- Matlab and Simulink modeling of digital comms systems and algorithms experience
- Hands-on experience in Digital Communications within the last 3 years
- Experience with leading teams through product implementation or demonstration
- A final DoD Secret clearance is required to start with ability to obtain higher level clearances. Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD clearance is required.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for research, design, and development for digital designs associated with multi-function software defined radios, as well as automated test equipment
- Work with evaluation boards to test proposed designs
- Support the implementation of digital FPGA hardware architecture and algorithms
- Collaborate with Systems Engineering to ensure firmware design meets system level requirements
- Review designs and analysis
- Proven ability to drive complex technical problems to closure
- Proven ability to lead product delivery
- May lead a team of technical engineers
Preferred Qualifications
- Optimization of Matlab or Simulink code generated HDL and porting to FPGAs or ASICs
- Open air and/or flight testing of advanced communication systems
- Active/Current DoD Top Secret Clearance with SCI
- Experience with Military Waveforms
- Waveform Algorithm Design and Decomposition
- Waveform ASIC Development