PGS Worldwide is seeking Secret-Cleared FPGA Digital Design Engineers in Rolling Meadows, Illinois for hybrid contract-to-hire roles supporting a leading aerospace & defense company. These positions will support full-lifecycle development of advanced FPGA-based digital electronic systems, including RF digital signal processing, high-speed interfaces, embedded processing, verification, integration, production, and field support.
Required Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a similar engineering discipline with 9+ years of digital electronics design experience; OR master’s degree in a technical field with 7+ years of relevant experience.
- Current U.S. Government Secret clearance.
- Extensive digital hardware circuit-design experience from simulation and schematic capture through test and integration.
- Experience translating system performance and operational requirements into embedded-system requirements, designs, and test specifications.
- Experience with VHDL and/or Verilog.
- Strong FPGA design and development experience.
- Experience with Xilinx FPGA technologies and Xilinx Vivado.
- Experience with synthesis, static timing closure, implementation, and FPGA image generation.
- Experience developing testbenches and performing design verification.
- Experience using tools such as Synopsys Synplify Pro and Mentor Graphics QuestaSim.
- Experience implementing real-time Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms within FPGAs.
- Experience with high-speed digital design techniques including asynchronous clock domains, synchronization, finite-state machines, pipelining, multi-cycle paths, and FIFOs.
- Experience with digital circuit card and PCB design concepts.
- U.S. citizenship required.
Preferred Skills
- Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
- 12+ years of digital electronics design experience.
- Experience with Intel/Altera FPGA technologies.
- MATLAB experience for algorithm modeling and bit-exact test-vector generation.
- Working knowledge of Electronic Warfare systems.
- Experience with airborne RF or infrared systems.
- Aerospace or defense industry experience.
- Experience with high-speed data links, embedded processors, and processor interfaces.
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, modify, and evaluate digital electronic circuitry and hardware systems.
- Support product development from system concept and requirements through design, implementation, test, production, and field support.
- Develop FPGA-based digital subsystems and circuit-card designs.
- Translate system-level requirements into digital hardware and embedded-system designs.
- Develop and verify HDL-based FPGA implementations.
- Perform synthesis, static timing analysis, implementation, and image generation.
- Develop testbenches and perform digital-design verification.
- Implement real-time DSP algorithms in FPGA hardware.
- Develop high-speed digital interfaces and embedded-processing architectures.
- Analyze hardware performance and conduct experimental testing.
- Resolve design, integration, and verification issues.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers.
Work Schedule / Shift
- Hybrid
- Monday–Friday, 5x8 schedule
Pay
Job IDs: 2130 / 2234
Military veterans and transitioning military members are encouraged to apply to all PGS Worldwide positions. All of our jobs are military-friendly, and we work with leaders in Aerospace who rely on your military expertise to support mission-critical programs nationwide. As a Veteran Founded company, we know that the military has given you the skills and training you need to succeed in positions like this, and we want to support your success in the civilian sector however we can. We thank you for your service and humbly offer our own in return by helping you take your career to the next level.