Embedded Systems Engineer - ref. t7397703

• critical systems in the US Department of Defense (DOD), is seeking a Embedded Systems Engineer to be based in our Mount Laurel, NJ, Arlington, VA, or San Diego CA offices.Overview: Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT) is currently seeking an experienced Embedded Systems Engineer to join our dynamic team.

The selected Embedded 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).

Security Clearance.

• Conduct detailed analysis of existing digital system representations, including software virtualization, hardware emulation, and modeling and simulation components.
• Develop plan to update existing digital system representations and create new digital system representations.
• Integrate 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.
• Development and implementation of a plan to verify and validate the individual digital system representations as well as 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.
• Develop and implement a plan to periodically update and test the digital representations and the integrated SoS environment.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline, such as Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, or equivalent.

• Minimum 5 years of technical experience (preferably in defense), including digital system development or integrationRequired Skills:
• Experience designing, implementing, and testing Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) using languages like VHDL and Verilog
• Simulation of FPGA circuits on AMD Vivado and Intel Quartus platforms
• Virtualization infrastructure experience with VMware/KVM or similar virtualization tools
• 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.
• 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 travel up to 10%
• Clearance: Secret or ability to achieve Secret clearancePreferred 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 with software defined antenna equipment and other software defined user equipment
• Fault Injection & Instrumentation: Expertise in fault injection and instrumentation to test hardware behaviors under stress.
• 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.
• Familiarity with Agile development processes
• Knowledge of VMware or AWS virtualization platforms.
• Active US Secret or higher security clearance is strongly preferredCompetencies:
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Attention to detail with high level of accuracy and confidentiality
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