Hardware Design Engineer, Level 3

Assist with designing new products and processes and improving and maintaining existing products. Communicate with the other engineering personnel to coordinate the interrelated design and assure project completion.

Conduct design analysis on components and/or assemblies to assist in the development process by ensuring designs are cost efficient, able to be manufactured, and reliable. Apply ASIC or FPGA place and route (P&R) tools with various libraries to create physical implementations of designs. Develop and maintain documentation for the P&R design flows.

Assist with de-processing electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures. Design new products and processes and improving and maintaining existing products. Work with tool and library vendors to develop solutions for designers’ P&R design challenges.

Perform the de-processing of electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures. Integrate new P&R tools, P&R tool updates, and ASIC or FPGA design libraries into Government’s computer aided design environment, documents the use of those tools and libraries, and Assist other physical designers to successfully complete their specific P&R design tasks. Lead the designs of new products and processes and improve and maintain existing products.

Provide technical leadership to less experienced engineers. Perform the de-processing of electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures and develops improved procedures. Direct and check the work of other hardware design engineers.

Act as internal consultant providing technical guidance on most complex projects. Develop novel procedures for reverse engineering of new component types.  Oversee the de-processing of electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures.

Required Experience: Ten (10) years experience in programming in VHDL; Five (5) years experience in programming on Linux platforms, Eight (8) years experience in programming on Xilinx FPGAs (any combination of VIRTEX-II Pro, VIRTEX-4, VIRTEX-5, or VIRTEX-6; Five (5) years experience with Xilinx ISE, Synplify Pro, and Modeltech's Modelsim; Eight (8) years experience in writing pin-level VHDL and clocking constraint files; One (1) year experience in programming in one or more of the following scripting languages:

PERL, sh, bash, csh, or python; and Five (5) years experience using LINUX for day-to-day activities. Twelve (12) years experience as an HDE in integrated circuit or microelectronic component design or reverse engineering of the same is required. 

Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional hardware design engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.