Principal Engineer Digital - 14019

The Systems Security Engineering Team (SSE) is seeking a highly motivated and qualified Principal Digital Verification Engineer to serve as a System Security Hardware Assurance Engineer, Level 3.  You will be responsible for helping lead a team of engineers focused on simulation & verification of physical system design efforts, generation of structured requirements, decomposition strategies, and risk mitigations.This role will be located in Huntsville, AL.

This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

Additional Responsibilities include:

• Assessment and analysis of threats, vulnerabilities, and risk for identified mission-critical functions and critical components.

• Support courses of action based on knowledge and experience, initiative, guidance, and established regulations and policies.

• Designs, develops, documents, tests and debugs low level software and systems that contain logical solutions.

• Utilize reverse engineering to validate supplier products

• Contributes to program plans, goals, objectives, and milestones to for Software & Hardware Assurance.

• Organize and conducts studies for various operational initiatives.

• Participate in a variety of working groups and customer meetings; ensure communication of risk environment with stakeholders

• Review technical security assessments of SSE environments to identify points of vulnerability, non-compliance with established standards and regulations and recommended mitigation strategies.

• Ensure the architecture and design of systems are functional and secure; support the design, development, implementation, and integration of security systems and system components.

• Execute completion Statement of Work requirements, Program Milestone Exit Criteria, and program maturity commitments.

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:  

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage  

• 401k  

• Educational Assistance  

• Life Insurance  

• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions   

• Paid Time Off   

• Health & Wellness Resources   

• Employee Discounts  

This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.  

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and 5 years of related experience, or a Masters degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related experience, or a PhD in a STEM discipline and 1 year of related experience

• Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with an ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need 

• Experience in any of the full product life cycles of: ASIC Design, FPGA Design, or RTL Design

• Experience in back end ASIC design including synthesis and static timing analysis, place and route, and/or physical verification (LVS/DRC)

• Experience with Cadence ASIC toolset e.g., Innovus, Genus, Tempus etc.

• Proficiency in HDL (VHDL/Verilog)

• Proficiency in scripting languages such as TCL, Python, Bash, or Perl

• Knowledge of DFT, scan insertion and ATPG

• Experience in reverse engineering or vulnerability analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Risk Management Framework, Security Controls and STIGs

• Experience with Mirco Service architectures and containerization technologies

• Experience with advanced technology nodes (sub 12nm)

• Experience with Global foundries, TSMC or Intel Foundries

• Automated build tools (Gitlab, Jenkins, Nexus, Ansible, Kubernetes)

• Experience with SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA)

• Knowledge of Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.