Junior Hardware Engineer - Pathway to Innovation

Job Description

Do you enjoy challenging digital design verification problems? 

Do you enjoy tinkering and learning how things work? 

HII Mission Technologies (HII MT) is seeking talented engineers who are excited to work in a flipped engineering environment. Our team in Roanoke, VA specializes in reverse engineering and microelectronics trust and assurance. 

HII Mission Technologies is seeking out-of-the-box thinkers who can uncover difficult-to-activate corner-case bugs and vulnerabilities in the gate-level netlists of FPGA and ASIC designs. 

Candidates for this position will contribute to the team by utilizing industry-standard functional verification tools (e.g., Questa, VCS, Verdi), logical equivalence tools (e.g., OneSpin 360EC), and proprietary software tools to verify design function and integrity. Common verification targets include embedded processors, DSPs, filters, transceivers, data links, systems-on-chip, and decoders. Experience in the cybersecurity, electronic warfare, encryption, radar, and/or satellite communications domains is a plus. 

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Candidates for this position will contribute to reverse engineering efforts on systems of interest and support the development of innovative solutions.
• Successful candidates will be expected to communicate clearly and effectively, and demonstrate the ability to design maintainable approaches to complex technical problems.
• Candidates will develop models, transactors, stimuli, monitors, and test benches for simulating and uncovering hidden behaviors in gate-level digital netlists.
• Candidates will be expected to produce clear documentation and test cases demonstrating identified bugs or deviations from the specification.
• Effective collaboration with teammates to produce cohesive results and create improved processes is required.
• Candidates must be U.S. citizens and be willing and able to obtain a DoD security clearance (if not already cleared). 

Minimum Qualifications

You will meet our minimum qualifications if you… 

• Are a United States citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance (Secret-Top Secret/SCI)
• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field 
• Experience with modern digital verification and modeling languages: SystemVerilog, SystemC, C/C++, Matlab, etc. 
• Directed, constrained-random, and assertion-based verification techniques at the gate, interface, and transaction levels 
• Experience with modern, commercial-grade, functional simulators (e.g., Xcelium, Incisive, Questa, VCS, Riviera-Pro, etc) 
• Writing scripts for batched verification tasks: Python, Bash, Tcl, make files. 
• Revision control systems for maintaining, sharing, and deploying code: Perforce, git, SVN, etc. 
• Familiarity with debugging and isolating issues with gate-level netlists 
• 5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 3 years relevant experience with Masters in related field 

Preferred Requirements

You will go above and beyond if you… 

• Already possess an active Top Secret security clearance and/or be eligible to obtain a higher-level clearance as required 
• Familiarity with object-oriented, embedded, assembly, or machine code programming 
• Software or hardware reverse-engineering (e.g., IDA Pro, Ghidra)
• FPGA design or verification 
• Familiarity with testing and verification techniques for IC trust, assurance, or security 
• Experience with logical equivalence checkers (e.g., OneSpin 360-EC, ESP, Conformal EC) 
• Experience with formal ABV 

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work at a computer workstation for extended periods.

• Capability to lift and move equipment up to 25 lbs as needed.

• Comfort with standing, bending, or reaching during hardware assembly or testing tasks.

• Fine motor skills for handling small components, tools, and test equipment.

• Adequate vision to read schematics, inspect hardware, and operate instruments.

• Clear verbal and written communication for collaboration and documentation.