Hardware Engineer 1 (25844)

Meet HII's Mission Technologies Division

Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense - the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers.

Job Description

Do you enjoy challenging digital design verification problems? HII Mission Technologies is seeking out-of-the-box thinkers who can uncover difficult-to-activate corner-case bugs and vulnerabilities in the gate-level netlists of FPGA and ASIC designs. Candidates for this position will contribute to the team by utilizing industry-standard functional verification tools, logical equivalence tools, and proprietary software tools to verify design function and integrity. Common verification targets include embedded processors, DSPs, filters, transceivers, data links, systems-on-chip, and decoders. Experience in the cybersecurity, electronic warfare, encryption, radar, and / or satellite communications domains is a plus.

Essential Job Responsibilities

Candidates will develop models, transactors, stimuli, monitors, and test benches for simulating and uncovering hidden behaviors in gate-level digital netlists. Candidates will be expected to produce clear documentation and test cases demonstrating identified bugs or deviations from the specification. Effective collaboration with teammates to produce cohesive results and create improved processes is required. Candidates must be U.S. citizens and be willing and able to obtain a DoD security clearance (if not already cleared).

Minimum Qualifications

0 years experience with Bachelors in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 4 years relevant experience. US Citizenship Willingness to obtain a Top-Secret security clearance Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field Experience with modern digital verification and modeling languages : SystemVerilog, SystemC, C / C++, Matlab, etc. Directed, constrained-random, and assertion-based verification techniques at the gate, interface, and transaction levels Experience with modern, commercial-grade, functional simulators (e.g., Xcelium, Incisive, Questa, VCS, Riviera-Pro, etc) Writing scripts for batched verification tasks : Python, Bash, Tcl, make files. Revision control systems for maintaining, sharing, and deploying code : Perforce, git, SVN, etc. Familiarity with debugging and isolating issues with gate-level netlists

Preferred Requirements

Familiarity with object-oriented, embedded, assembly, or machine code programming Software or hardware reverse-engineering (e.g., IDA Pro, Ghidra) FPGA design or verification Active Top Secret security clearance Familiarity with testing and verification techniques for IC trust, assurance, or security Experience with logical equivalence checkers (e.g., OneSpin 360-EC, ESP, Conformal EC) Experience with formal ABV

The listed salary range for this role is intended as a good faith estimate based on the role's location, expectations, and responsibilities. When extending an offer, HII's Mission Technologies division takes a variety of factors into consideration which include, but are not limited to, the role's function and a candidate's education or training, work experience, and key skills.

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