Senior Digital Systems Engineer
Innovative Defense Technologies

Description

Background Information:

Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT), provider of automated software testing, data analysis, and cybersecurity solutions for complex, mission-critical systems in the US Department of Defense (DOD), is seeking a Senior Digital Systems Engineer to be based in our Arlington, VA , Mount Laurel, NJ, or San Diego, CA offices.

Overview:

Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT) is currently seeking an experienced Senior Digital Systems Engineer to join our dynamic team. The selected Senior Digital Systems Engineer will be responsible to lead digital system integration including software virtualization, hardware emulation, and modeling and simulation components within a US government-owned Integrated Digital Engineering Environment (IDEE). The digital systems included in the environment are primarily RF circuits implemented in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)

All applicants must be able to obtain/maintain an active U.S. Security Clearance.

Responsibilities Include:

• Lead a detailed analysis of existing digital system representations, including software virtualization, hardware emulation, and modeling and simulation components.
• Lead the development of a plan to update existing digital system representations and create new digital system representations.
• Lead the integration of digital system representations within a government-owned IDEE to support system of systems (SoS) design, development, integration, test, and evaluation.
• Work closely with the US government representatives and stakeholders to obtain existing digital artifacts and justify the need for additional digital artifacts based on fidelity requirements.
• Lead development and implementation of a plan to verify and validate individual digital system representations and the integrated SoS environment.
• Actively assist US government stakeholders in creation of digital representations of software defined antenna equipment and integration within the PNT SoS IDEE.
• Lead development and implementation of a plan to periodically update and test digital representations and the integrated SoS environment.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline, such as Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, or equivalent. Master's degree in relevant technical discipline, preferred
• Minimum of 10 years of technical experience (preferably in defense), including digital system development or integration

Required Skills:

• Field Programmable Gate Array or Programmable Logic Device Design and Implementation experience using languages VHDL or Verilog
• Radio Frequency (RF) circuitry design, analysis, implementation, and integration
• RF signal processing experience
• Simulation of FPGA circuits on AMD Vivado and Intel Quartus platforms
• Hardware Emulation Expertise: Proficiency with QEMU, Simics, or Renode for full system emulation of embedded systems.
• Embedded Systems Expertise: Knowledge of microcontrollers, processors (ARM, PowerPC, Intel/X86), and embedded software development.
• Reverse Engineering: Experience with tools like IDA-Pro, GDB for firmware reverse engineering and identifying interfaces.
• Hardware Analysis & Flash Extraction: Ability to analyze hardware in emulation and extract firmware from flash memory.
• Fault Injection & Instrumentation: Expertise in fault injection and instrumentation to test hardware behaviors under stress.
• Black Box Analysis: Conduct black-box analysis of embedded control modules using protocols like CAN, 1553, PCI-e, serial.
• Custom Tool Development: Ability to create hardware emulation tools and scripts for automating testing and analysis.
• Communication Protocols: Understanding of UART, 1553, PCI-e, and CAN protocols.
• Ability to read, write, and debug scripting/programming languages such as Bash, Python, Ruby, Java, C/C++, and JavaScript
• Ability to lead small technical teams in the conversion of logical systematic conversion of program requirements into solution that acknowledge technical and cost constraints
• Familiarity with Agile development processes
• Clearance: Secret or ability to achieve Secret clearance
• Ability to travel approximately 10%

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with the Unites States Air Force (USAF) Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) system, including the Resilient Embedded GPS/INS (R-EGI) internal sub-systems and components.
• Experience developing RF circuitry for communications systems including beamforming, null steering, filtering, signal mixing
• Experience with software defined antenna equipment and other software defined user equipment
• Experience with software testing, configuration management, and test automation
• Familiarity with distributed systems, algorithms, and software design patterns
• Proficiency working with different software development tools (Git, SVN, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, Nexus, etc.)
• Experience with satellite architecture and mission/vehicle systems
• Knowledge of VMware or Azure virtualization platforms
• Active US Secret or higher security clearance is strongly preferred

Competencies:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Attention to detail with high level of accuracy and confidentiality
• Initiative, reliability, teamwork, and customer service orientation
• Strong organization and planning skills

EEO Statement:

Applicants, employees, and former employees are protected from employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

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