Digital Engineer 3 (FPGA)

Designs develops modifies and evaluates digital electronic parts components or integrated circuitry for digital electronic equipment and other hardware systems. Determines design approaches and parameters. Analyzes equipment to establish operating data conducts experimental tests and evaluates results. Selects components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability. May also review vendor capability to support product development.

The Digital Design Engineer role involves full life-cycle product development from system concept and requirements through design implementation test verification production and field support. Digital subsystem and circuit card designs utilize the latest FPGA technologies from all major vendors and device families including Xilinx and Intel Altera and support high speed interfaces Radio Frequency RF DSP controls data links embedded processing and processor interfaces. Your expertise in digital design and analysis coding verification and synthesis using state of the art tools and techniques are desired for this position.

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline with a minimum 9 years of digital electronics design experience or 7 years of digital electronics design experience with a master’s degree in a technical field. Extensive digital hardware circuit design experience including simulation and schematic capture through test and integration. Ability to translate system performance and operational requirements into embedded system requirements design and test specifications Experience in HDL VHDL/Verilog A thorough understanding of synthesis static timing closure physical build implementation and image generation. Strong testbench generations and verification. Experience using Xilinx Vivado Synopsys Synplify Pro and Mentor Graphics QuestaSim. Implementation of real time Digital Signal Processing algorithms within FPGAs. Experience with high-speed digital design techniques such as pipelining asynchronous clock domains synchronization finite state machines multi-cycling and use of FIFOs. Familiarity with documentation and revision control Proven skills to include team leadership mentoring others communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally being adaptable creative collaborative comfortable working independently and enjoys solving difficult problems., Advanced degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with a minimum 12 years of digital electronics design experience. Algorithm modeling using Matlab to generate bit-exact test vectors is desired Working knowledge of Electronic Warfare systems. Experience in Aerospace and/or Defense industries.

TEKsystems is partnering with an Aerospace and Defense client and they’re looking for a Sr. Principal Digital Design Engineer to join our team in Rolling Meadows IL.