Electrical Engineer - Digital Design

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is a leader in remotely piloted aircraft and advanced surveillance systems. The Electrical Engineer - Digital Design will support the design and development of electronic components for unmanned air vehicles, primarily focusing on digital designs and providing field support as needed.

What you'll do:

• Responsible primarily for digital designs targeting AMD/Xilinx FPGAs but with some elements of analog interface and power conversion circuit design with appropriate analysis and/or CAD modeling
• Responsible for designs that may include microprocessors and vector processors generated using high level design tools
• Desirable areas of experience: System on Chip, embedded firmware development
• Desirable tool experience: Xilinx/AMD ISE, Vivado, Matlab, Simulink. System Generator
• Desirable tool experience: JTAG boundary scan test and debugging
• Documentation and record keeping necessary to support version control, production release and training
• Required to provide field support as needed

What they're looking for:

• Typically requires a bachelors or masters degree in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and two or more years of engineering experience with a bachelors degree. May substitute equivalent engineering experience in lieu of education
• Must have a complete understanding of engineering concepts, principles, codes, and theory; experience demonstrating a broad application of those concepts; and, expanding knowledge of principles, concepts, theory, and practices in related technical specialties
• Must possess the ability to understand new concepts quickly; apply them accurately throughout an evolving environment; organize, schedule, and coordinate work phases; and, determine the appropriate approach at the task level or, with assistance, at the project level to provide solutions to a range of complex problems
• Must have excellent communication, computer, documentation, presentation, and interpersonal skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team; able to perform complex tasks in one engineering area
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance is required
• US Citizenship Required?: Yes
• Clearance Required?: Desired
• Desirable areas of experience: System on Chip, embedded firmware development
• Desirable tool experience: Xilinx/AMD ISE, Vivado, Matlab, Simulink. System Generator
• Desirable tool experience: JTAG boundary scan test and debugging