Senior Hardware Engineer - Join HII Mission Technologies

Requisition Number: 19473

Required Travel: 0 - 10%

Employment Type: Full-Time, Salaried, Exempt

Security Clearance: Ability to Obtain

Experience Level: Senior

About HII’s Mission Technologies Division

Discover an exciting career at HII's Mission Technologies division, a key player in Cyber & Electronic Warfare. We collaborate with our nation's intelligence and cyber operations communities to protect cyberspace. Our extensive expertise in network architecture, software and hardware development, cybersecurity, and electromagnetic environments allows us to support crucial missions for federal agencies.

Our team of over 7,000 professionals worldwide provides comprehensive domain expertise and cutting-edge technologies to support mission partners globally. Mission Technologies leads the forefront of national defense by accelerating a wide range of national security solutions for both government and commercial customers. Our capabilities include C5ISR, AI, Big Data, cyber operations, synthetic training environments, fleet sustainment, environmental remediation, and the largest fleet of unmanned underwater vehicles across all classes. Find the right role for you. Apply today and join our dynamic team!

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Job Description

Do you thrive on solving complex digital design verification challenges? HII Mission Technologies is seeking innovative thinkers to identify and address difficult corner-case bugs and vulnerabilities in FPGA and ASIC designs at the gate level.

As a Senior Hardware Engineer, you'll utilize industry-standard functional verification tools (e.g., Questa, VCS, Verdi) and logical equivalence tools (e.g., OneSpin 360EC) to ensure design functionality and integrity. Target areas include embedded processors, DSPs, filters, transceivers, data links, systems-on-chip, and decoders. Experience in cybersecurity, electronic warfare, encryption, radar, or satellite communications is a plus.

Essential Responsibilities

• Develop models, transactors, stimuli, monitors, and test benches to simulate and identify hidden behaviors in gate-level digital netlists.
• Create clear documentation and test cases to demonstrate identified bugs or specification deviations.
• Collaborate effectively with team members to produce cohesive results and improve processes.

Note: Candidates must be U.S. citizens and willing to obtain a DoD security clearance if not already cleared.

Minimum Qualifications

• 9 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree in a related field, 7 years with a Master's, 4 years with a PhD or JD, or 13 years of relevant experience with a High School Diploma or equivalent.
• U.S. Citizenship
• Willingness to obtain a Top-Secret security clearance
• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• Proficiency in modern digital verification and modeling languages such as SystemVerilog, SystemC, C/C++, Matlab
• Experience with directed, constrained-random, and assertion-based verification techniques at various levels
• Exposure to modern functional simulators (e.g., Xcelium, Incisive, Questa, VCS, Riviera-Pro)
• Scripting skills for batch verification tasks (e.g., Python, Bash, Tcl, make files)
• Familiarity with revision control systems like Perforce, git, SVN
• Experience in debugging and isolating issues with gate-level netlists

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with object-oriented, embedded, assembly, or machine code programming
• Experience in software or hardware reverse-engineering (e.g., IDA Pro, Ghidra)
• FPGA design or verification experience
• Active Top Secret security clearance
• Knowledge of IC trust, assurance, or security verification techniques
• Familiar with logical equivalence checkers (e.g., OneSpin 360-EC, ESP, Conformal EC)
• Experience with formal ABV <