Sr. Electrical Engineer (FPGA Firmware)

Raytheon
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Posted on: 4 Apr 2021

Aberdeen, MD

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Job Description:

The Tactical Communication Systems Department within Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Systems Engineering Center is growing! We are involved in all aspects of Systems Design and Architecture for the Tactical Communication Systems business area. This team, based at Aberdeen Proving Ground, is responsible for supporting system architecture development, CONOPS development, system trade studies, requirements analysis and flow down to hardware/software configuration items; leading to systems design for combat Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) solutions for air defense, air control, and self-protection missions in airborne and ground applications.

We have immediate and upcoming career growth opportunities for Systems Engineers to join our dynamic, diverse, and rapidly growing team of digital design engineers to work on Identification of Friend or Foe (IFF) products for defense applications.

This position is for an individual with educational and professional experience in the digital hardware design, fabrication, assembly, test, and integration of circuit card assemblies and subsystems with an emphasis on design of boards containing FPGA circuits and digital and analog interfaces. Knowledge of analog design techniques, including operational amplifiers, data converters, and power regulator designs at the circuit card level is also desirable. The designer will interface with printed wire boards (PWB) designers to oversee layout, routing, and manufacturing of designs. The designer will be responsible for test and integration of these designs into the larger systems. Candidates for the position must have strong written and verbal communication skills and have the ability to lead teams to meet program budget and schedule milestones.

Required Skills:

* Minimum 6 years experience in digital circuit design to include experience in design, implementation, test, and debug of digital circuit cards with FPGAs, ADCs, and DACs that interface with RF components
* Proficient with hands on troubleshooting and / or debugging of hardware with standard test equipment
* Experience with high speed interfaces for memories, FPGAs, and processors
* Familiarity with circuit card assembly, final assembly, and test manufacturing processes
* Ability to support occasional travel
* MUST be a U.S. citizen able to obtain DoD Secret clearance within one year of start date; ACTIVE clearance is preferred.

Desired Skills:

* Prior IFF product experience
* Experience implementing VHDL
* Earned value management exposure

Required Education (including Major):
* Bachelors degree in a related STEM discipline - Electrical Engineering is preferred

This position requires either a U.S. Person or a Non-U.S. Person who is eligible to obtain any required Export Authorization.178249

Raytheon

Waltham, MA

Raytheon Company develops integrated products, services, and solutions for the defense and other government markets worldwide. It operates through five segments: Integrated Defense Systems (IDS); Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS); Missile Systems (MS); Space and Airborne Systems (SAS); and Forcepoint. The IDS segment offers integrated air and missile defense; land-and sea-based radar solutions; command, control, communications, computers, cyber, and intelligence solutions; naval combat and ship electronic and sensing systems; and undersea sensing and effects solutions.

The IIS segment provides technical and professional services, such as navigation, DoD space and weather solutions, cybersecurity, analytics, training, logistics, mission support, software-based systems, automation and sustainment solutions, and air traffic management systems, as well as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions. The MS segment develops and supports weapon systems comprising missiles, smart munitions, close-in weapon systems, projectiles, kinetic kill vehicles, directed energy effectors, and combat sensor solutions.

The SAS segment provides civil and military electro-optical/infrared sensors; airborne radars for surveillance and fire control applications; lasers; precision guidance systems; signals intelligence systems; processors; electronic warfare systems; tactical and strategic communications; and space-qualified systems. The Forcepoint segment offers cyber security products that include risk adaptive data loss prevention; user and entity behavior analytics and cloud access security broker capabilities; insider threat solutions; firewall technology; cloud and on premise Web and email security; and cross domain transfer products.

Raytheon Company has a strategic agreement with AirMap to collaborate on future projects to safely integrate drones into the national airspace system. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.