Mid to Senior Systems/Hardware Engineer (VHDL)
CACI InternationalJob Title
Mid to Senior Systems/Hardware Engineer (VHDL)
Role Summary
Systems and hardware engineer supporting FPGA development and VHDL/Verilog-based design and verification for defense systems in the Fort Meade, MD area. Primary tasks include requirements management, architecture definition, verification planning, and cross-discipline coordination within DoD-aligned architectures.
Work directly on system lifecycle activities — requirements derivation, interface control, design reviews, and test/verification — to deliver production-compatible systems.
Experience Level
Mid to Senior — minimum 5+ years of industry experience; TS/SCI clearance with polygraph required.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include systems engineering across requirements, architecture, verification, and configuration management. Key duties:
- Manage system and derived requirements and allocate them to hardware, software, facilities, and personnel.
- Develop system engineering documentation (System Engineering Plans, Requirements Specifications, Interface Control Documents).
- Participate in Integrated Product Teams, design reviews, program reviews, and Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings; resolve cross-discipline action items.
- Generate alternative system concepts and physical architectures; allocate real-time process and error budgets to subsystems.
- Define verification methods and evaluation criteria; develop test and verification plans and ensure work products meet requirements.
- Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level allocations and ensure requirements are complete, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable.
- Develop derived requirements for Information Assurance (confidentiality, integrity, availability) and basic IA/security mechanisms.
- Support interface definition, configuration changes, and lifecycle coordination between affected groups.
Requirements
Must-have skills, clearance, and experience:
- Minimum 5+ years of industry experience in systems/hardware engineering.
- Current Top Secret / Secure Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance with Polygraph.
- Experience with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
- Proficiency with ModelSim for VHDL or Verilog coding and simulation.
- Experience with Xilinx toolchain and FPGA development workflows.
Nice-to-have:
- Familiarity with software languages such as Java, C, C++, or Ruby on Rails.
- Experience with operating systems: Unix, Linux, Windows.
Education Requirements
Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline — or equivalent related experience.
About the Company
Company: CACI International
Headquarters: Arlington, VA, United States
Provides information solutions and services to U.S. government and commercial customers, specializing in intelligence, defense, cybersecurity, enterprise IT, and engineering to support national security, federal civilian agencies, and mission-focused technology programs.
