Digital Design Engineer 3

We are hiring a Digital Design Engineer to support advanced defense and communication systems in San Diego, CA. This role focuses on FPGA-based digital circuit card design and software-defined radio (SDR) applications in a collaborative engineering environment., * Design, develop, integrate, and test digital circuit card assemblies

• Support FPGA System-on-Chip (SoC) hardware development
• Work closely with Systems, Hardware, and Integration & Test teams
• Analyze system requirements, timing, and performance constraints
• Define PCB stack-up, routing, layout, and thermal design specifications
• Perform board-level debugging using oscilloscopes and logic analyzers
• Conduct design reviews and documentation updates

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related STEM field
• 5+ years of digital hardware design experience (3+ years with Master’s degree)
• Active DoD Secret Clearance (Required at start)
• Experience with FPGA-based digital circuit card development
• Hands-on experience with Siemens Xpedition (EDA tool)
• Strong understanding of engineering development lifecycle processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional engineering experience
• Experience with AMD/Xilinx RFSoC platforms
• Analog/RF and digital design/test experience
• Experience with communication protocols (I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, Ethernet)
• PCB design, component selection, and supply chain collaboration
• Worst-case digital signal analysis
• Experience with DoD communications systems, Analysis Skills, CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing), Circuit Testing, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Communication Systems, Communications Protocols, Component Selection, Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), Computer Engineering, Consulting, Debugging Skills, Design Services, Digital Circuit Design, Digital Circuits, DoD Secret Clearance, Documentation, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Ethernet, FPGA, Graphic Design, Hardware Design, Hardware Development, I2C, Information Technology & Information Systems, Information Technology Consulting, Integration Testing, Logic Analyzer, Oscilloscope, Outsourcing, PCI Express (PCI-E), Presentation/Verbal Skills, Printed Circuit Board (PCB), Printed Circuit Board Design, Process Engineering, Product Engineering, Product Lifecycle, Product Lifecycle Management, Profit & Loss, Project/Program Management, Prototyping, Quality Assurance, Radio Frequency, Requirements Management, Software Design, Supply Chain, System-on-a-Chip (SoC), Systems Analysis, Team Player, Technical Support, Technical/Engineering Design, Test Design, Translation Services, United States Department of Defense (DoD), Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter (UART), Validation Testing, Writing Skills

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