Digital Design Engineer

Digital Design Engineer – Secret Clearance Required

Location: Tucson, AZ (On-site)

Job Type: W-2 Contract or Contract to hire

Clearance: Active U.S. Security Clearance required prior to start

Pay: $90,000 - $100,000 with full Government benefits

The Effector Digital Products department is seeking an Electrical Engineer with strong digital electronics design and analysis experience to support missile system development.

This role focuses on designing high-speed digital circuits for applications such as missile guidance, video processing, and digital signal processing, leveraging technologies like FPGAs, processors, and advanced interfaces.

You will work in a collaborative engineering environment, contributing to cutting-edge defense systems.

What You Will Do

Design, analyze, simulate, test, and integrate digital electronic modules and circuit card assemblies (CCAs)

Develop hardware designs involving:

Processors

FPGAs

Memory components

Work with industry-standard interfaces such as:

PCIe

Ethernet

I2C, SPI, UART

Support full lifecycle development from:

Concept and requirements

Hardware design

Verification, integration, and testing

Collaborate within a multi-disciplinary engineering team

Core Technologies / Focus Areas

High-speed digital electronics

FPGA and configurable logic design

Multi-processor system architectures (homogeneous / heterogeneous)

PCB design and simulation tools

Signal integrity and power integrity analysis

Qualifications – Required

Bachelor’s Degree in:

Electrical Engineering

Computer Engineering

Electrical Engineering Technology

Minimum 5+ years of digital circuit design experience, including at least two of the following:

Electronic circuit design and development

Full lifecycle hardware design (concept through integration/testing)

PCB design process including schematic capture, analysis, and simulation

Experience designing hardware with:

Processors, FPGAs, and memory

Active U.S. security clearance required prior to start

U.S. Citizenship required

Ability to obtain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

Experience with:

Embedded test techniques

Design for test (DFT)

Design margin analysis

Design for production

Experience with tools such as:

Mentor Graphics / Siemens EDA (DxDesigner, xDX Designer VX)

Xilinx tools (Vivado, Zynq Ultrascale, Artix)

HyperLynx (signal/power integrity, analog simulation)

Xpedition Enterprise (xPCB)

Experience designing complex CCAs (16–32 layer boards)

Experience with Constraint Editor System (CES)

Knowledge of software and/or FPGA development

Experience transitioning programs from development to production

Ability to manage:

Technical and schedule risks

Cost reduction opportunities

Program timelines and resources

Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams across multiple projects