Location

Annapolis Junction, MD

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Job ID

SZ003

 

Description 

CTC Group is seeking a Hardware Design Engineer to design and test new integrated circuits and hardware components for a wide variety of signal processing applications and research.

 

Responsibilities

• Assist with designing new products and processes and improving and maintaining existing products.

• Communicate with the other engineering personnel to coordinate the interrelated design and assure project completion.

• Conduct design analysis on components and/or assemblies to assist in the development process by ensuring designs are cost efficient, able to be manufactured, and reliable.

• Apply ASIC or FPGA place and route (P&R) tools with various libraries to create physical implementations of designs.

• Develop and maintain documentation for the P&R design flows.

• Assist with de-processing electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures.

• Design new products and processes and improving and maintaining existing products.

• Work with tool and library vendors to develop solutions for designers’ P&R design challenges.

• Perform the de-processing of electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures.

• Integrate new P&R tools, P&R tool updates, and ASIC or FPGA design libraries into Government’s computer aided design environment, documents the use of those tools and libraries, and assist other physical designers to successfully complete their specific P&R design tasks.

• Lead the designs of new products and processes and improve and maintain existing products.

• Provide technical leadership to less experienced engineers.

• Perform the de-processing of electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures and develops improved procedures.

 

Minimum Requirements

• Current, active TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance.

• Seven (7) years of experience as a HDE in integrated circuit or microelectronic component design or reverse engineering of the same is required.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional hardware design engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

• Ability to Travel (CONUS & OCONUS).

 

Why CTC Group?

As a veteran-owned small business, we recognize that successful partnerships are based on open and direct communication, mutual respect, and the ability to adapt to evolving capabilities.  Our cleared employees bring decades of experience supporting customers in the Intelligence and Defense communities.  We specialize in providing engineering, technical, operational support, and training services to Federal government, and Mission Operations. 

 

COVID Policy: Prospective and/or new employees will be required to adhere with CTC Group’s vaccination policy. All CTC Group employees must be fully vaccinated and they must submit proof of vaccination on their first day of employment. Prospective or new employees may seek an exemption to the vaccination requirement at HR@ctc-group.tech and must have an approved exemption prior to the start of their employment. Customer site vaccination requirements, if more strict, will take precedence over CTC Group’s vaccination policy.

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CTC Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, physical disability, genetic information, mental disability, age, military status or status as a Vietnam-era or special disabled veteran, marital status, registered domestic partner status, gender (including sex stereotyping), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related) or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal and state laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. 

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