DIGITAL SYSTEMS ARCHITECT-SR SPECIALIST WITH SECURITY CLEARANCE

All Qualified Resumes Responded to in 24 Hrs or Less DOD Secret Clearance Obtainable #CJ Essential Functions: * Support and/or lead technical proposals, including decomposition of customer requirements into unit or system architecture/design, technical writing, technical risk management, cost estimating, etc. * Ensure the logical and systemic conversion of customer or product requirements into total system solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. * Lead technology development activities and support business development. * Perform technical planning, unit and system integration, verification and validation activities in support of programs and Digital Unit/System development efforts. * Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements, and allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications. * Perform Cost, Risk, and Supportability and Effectiveness analyses for total digital communication systems (concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance & disposal). * Work in a highly dynamic engineering integration lab. Education: * Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 6 years of experience as a Systems Engineer - or- * Graduate Degree with a minimum of 4 years prior related experience. Preference for BSEE in Electrical or Electronics Engineering Qualifications: * Demonstrated experience in the architecture, specification, design, implementation, simulation, test, verification, validation, and debugging of digital based units, systems, avionics systems, and/or control systems * Experience using hardware description languages (VHDL preferred) * Experience with digital hardware design including FPGAs, Processors, Memory, data converters, etc * Knowledge of military and/or NASA component specifications, design processes, and hardware test/verification procedures * Background in systems engineering and high-reliability environments * Excellent verbal communication, writing, and organizational skills * Demonstrated complex problem solving and decision making - Able to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions; able to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate solution * Experience with GPS and RF digital signal processing, forward error correction coding and decoding, encryption/decryption, waveforms, and data protocols in FPGAs is a plus * Experience with Actel FPGAs is a plus