Job: #4812 – Digital Design Engineer

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Company Type

Manufacturer

Location

Farmingdale, New York

Job Description

  • Oversees and coordinates the cost/schedule/technical aspects of ongoing engineering projects within the program guidelines set by the Program Manager and customer.
  • Serves as single point-of-contact between engineering project management and planning, engineering project team, and line management.
  • Reviews status of engineering projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
  • Assesses engineering project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer-satisfaction goals and objectives.
  • Develops mechanisms for monitoring engineering project progress and for intervention and problem solving with engineering project managers, line managers, and
    customers.
  • Provides the coordination between resource managers/supervisors and ensures all necessary reviews and approvals are received.
  • Provides direction to program team members using established policies and precedents.
  • Established development program for major component or small system, or production or logistics program for several components or medium systems.
  • Ensures that engineering projects are completed on schedule following established procedures and schedules.
  • Erroneous decisions or recommendations or failure to achieve results might cause delays in program schedules and result in the allocation of more resources.
  • Manages intermediate engineering project teams.
  • Liaison normally involves specific phases of a task, engineering project or operation.
  • External contacts involve routine matters to understand, track, drill down, and question activities and issues in all functional areas in order to influence management and resolve conflict.
  • Negotiation, leadership, assertiveness and follow-through skills are key to successful completion of tasks.
  • Conducts briefings to Senior Management on project health.
  • Analyzes workflow and assigns or schedules work to meet priorities and goals.
  • May test, revise and/or correct errors in programs and/or systems.
  • Meets with program managers, support staff, vendors, and customers to solicit cooperation and resolve problems.
  • Develop and implement recovery plans for off-schedule and unanticipated events.
  • Generate various reports/deliverables

Job Skills

  • Self-starter.
  • Responsible for the design of military electronic hardware with strong digital logic background including VHDL coded FPGA design and high speed digital design.
  • BSEE (MSEE preferred) and minimum 5-10 years of FPGA design experience are required.
  • Must be proficient with the Xilinx ISE design environment for end to end design development including CoreGen (DSP, Ethernet, PCI, Rocket IO, & high speed transceiver cores), PlanAhead, Timing Analyzer, Power Estimator, etc.
  • Ability to write thorough VHDL Test Benches for design verification using ModelSim as well as effective constraints files to achieve timing closure is required.
  • Familiarity with HDL Designer is a plus.
  • Experience with Allegro Signal Integrity Analysis tools & simulation is a plus.
  • Familiarity with embedded processing, Virtex 4/5/6 FPGA platforms, DSP, A/D and D/A converters, and hardware communication over a high speed PCI/cPCI/VME interface is a plus.
  • Working knowledge of standard bench-top test equipment and the ability to conduct hardware verification and debug.
  • Ability to obtain a security clearance

Job ID: 4812

Categories

Designer, Digital Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineer, Northeast