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Job Description:

• Product design for tactical handheld and manpack radios, power amplifiers and accessories specifically in the areas of FPGA design, digital and COMSEC functionality.
• Responsible for designing, developing, modifying and evaluating electronic parts, components or circuitry for electronic equipment or other hardware systems.
• Consults with software and/or mechanical engineers and other engineering staff to evaluate interface between hardware and software, and operational performance requirements of the overall system.
• Support multi-source component and PCB development, validation and second source approval.
• Find, and approve alternate components for part shortages or obsolescence.
• Help resolve supplier technical issues.
• A thorough understanding of complex digital timing issues is required, with an extensive background in synthesis, simulation, timing analysis and system integration.
• Must be familiar with circuit board level, ASIC or FPGA design. Must be proficient with CAE tools, including VHDL.
• Determine design approaches and parameters.
• Analyze requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. Propose, lead, evaluate, and develop digital architectures to meet program needs.
• Design and develop high speed digital systems, and FPGA architectures.
• Tasks include requirement generation, VHDL design, FPGA design, module design, simulations, verification, unit design, and COTS implementation.
• Responsibilities also include test generation and integration.

Qualifications:

• BSEE is required with a minimum of 5 years relevant industry experience.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. secret security clearance.

Experience:

• Requires a strong background in the application of the principles and techniques of Electrical Engineering.
• Must have experience diagnosing, troubleshooting, debugging and repairing complex electrical equipment. Must have a broad skill set with experience with digital and analog circuitry.
• Strong technical design background in radio products and/or communications and/or wireless networking protocols and/or military electronics products is desired.
• Experience with digital hardware development/support is required.
• Interpersonal communication skills and ability to work in a team environment required.

     Bachelors (or equivalent work experience)