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# Digital Design Engineer in Tucson

- **Company:** Energy Jobline
- **Location:** Tucson, AZ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $90,000.0 - $100,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Computer Engineering, Digital Electronics, Logic Synthesis of Circuits, Ethernet, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Design, PCI Express, Systems Development Life Cycle, SAP (Applications), Schematic Capture, Signal Integrity, System on a Chip, Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, Video Editing, Vivado, Serial Peripheral Interface, Fpga Hardware, Mentor Graphics
- **Published:** August 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.energyjobline.com/job/digital-design-engineer-tucson-31392276

## About the Role

* Bachelor's Degree in:
 + Electrical Engineering
 + Computer Engineering
 + Electrical Engineering Technology
 * Minimum 5+ years of digital circuit design experience, including at least two of the following:
 + Electronic circuit design and development
 + Full lifecycle hardware design (concept through integration/testing)
 + PCB design process including schematic capture, analysis, and simulation
 * Experience designing hardware with:
 + Processors, FPGAs, and memory
 * Active U.S. security clearance required prior to start
 * U.S. Citizenship required
 * Ability to obtain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, * Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering
 * Experience with:
 + Embedded test techniques
 + Design for test (DFT)
 + Design margin analysis
 + Design for production
 * Experience with tools such as:
 + Mentor Graphics / Siemens EDA (DxDesigner, xDX Designer VX)
 + Xilinx tools (Vivado, Zynq Ultrascale, Artix)
 + HyperLynx (signal/power integrity, analog simulation)
 + Xpedition Enterprise (xPCB)
 * Experience designing complex CCAs (16-32 layer boards)
 * Experience with Constraint Editor System (CES)
 * Knowledge of software and/or FPGA development
 * Experience transitioning programs from development to production
 * Ability to manage:
 + Technical and schedule risks
 + Cost reduction opportunities
 + Program timelines and resources
 * Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams across multiple projects

## Description

The Effector Digital Products department is seeking an Electrical Engineer with strong digital electronics design and analysis experience to support missile system development.

This role focuses on designing high-speed digital circuits for applications such as missile guidance, video processing, and digital signal processing, leveraging technologies like FPGAs, processors, and advanced interfaces.

You will work in a collaborative engineering environment, contributing to cutting-edge defense systems.

What You Will Do

 * Design, analyze, simulate, test, and integrate digital electronic modules and circuit card assemblies (CCAs)
 * Develop hardware designs involving:
 + Processors
 + FPGAs
 + Memory components
 * Work with industry-standard interfaces such as:
 + PCIe
 + Ethernet
 + I2C, SPI, UART
 * Support full lifecycle development from:
 + Concept and requirements
 + Hardware design
 + Verification, integration, and testing
 * Collaborate within a multi-disciplinary engineering team

Core Technologies / Focus Areas

 * High-speed digital electronics
 * FPGA and configurable logic design
 * Multi-processor system architectures (homogeneous / heterogeneous)
 * PCB design and simulation tools
 * Signal integrity and power integrity analysis


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