Digital Design Engineer

sgs-job-4073

Engineering
 Massachusetts
VHDL
Xilinx Vivado
Lab Test
Unix
Linux
Digital Design

Contract - 3 Years

Location (mandatory): Lexington, MA The Group specializes in advanced network and communications systems development, with a focus on tactical mobile, military airborne networks of the future. The Group uses a combination of technical analysis, modeling, simulation, emulation, prototype development, and flight evaluation to develop new communication systems and evaluate and predict their performance under expected conditions. A digital design engineer is needed to develop VHDL for use in a free-space optical communication system.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Plans, performs, and executes engineering research and design development for both new products and existing products.
  • Performs design/HDL analysis, including high speed and low power designs.
  • Participates in simulation, verification, and integration tasks.
  • Takes algorithmic or functional specifications and coverts that to a design that can be implemented for use in a lab or field environment.
  • Develop models, simulate and verify designs, fabricate prototypes, and test hardware solutions.
  • Creates and maintains accurate and detailed design files.
  • Candidate should possess experience in electrical engineering and a track record of demonstrating designs on hardware.
  • Digital HDL design experience is required, including complex, high-speed HDL based implementations of algorithms targeting programmable logic devices (PLDs, FPGA, ASIC, etc.), microprocessors, DSP and/or ARM processors.
  • Hands-on experience with code design, simulation and testing is required.

Skills:

  • Experience with DDR4 memory, terrestrial network standards, DSP processing techniques, and design and debug of complex circuit boards
  • Knowledge of MATLAB, Perl, TCL, System C, System Verilog
  • Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • In-depth knowledge of Xilinx Ultrascale+ and Versal FPGAs.

Education/Experience:

  • Greater than 7 years of experience with team based VHDL development processes for FPGA based designs is required, including VHDL code development, simulation, verification, synthesis, high-speed timing closure and hardware-based acceleration
  • Must be able to function proficiently in an exclusively UNIX based environment.
  • In depth familiarity of UNIX based scripting, Xilinx Vivado, Modelsim/Questa, laboratory test equipment, network test equipment, and source/revision control tools.
  • Experience developing implementation architectures from requirements documents or high-level specifications.
  • Experience using and maintaining legacy IP and UNIX build environments. Requires the ability to troubleshoot designs operating within an integrated system.

Related Jobs

Linguist

Engineering
 Washington
$85 - $105
12 Months

Location (mandatory): Redmond, WA Client is seeking a Prototyping Engineer to join our Advanced Development Team. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, takes initiative to identify gaps in systems and processes, and builds solutions from the ground up. They are naturally curious and fine tinkering with a number of components. This role requires a versatile engineer with a working understanding of mechanical, electrical, and software systems who can smoothly integrate various subsystems into functional prototypes. The position involves hands-on building, working together with AI tools, debugging, and iterating on prototype hardware systems for next-generation AR/VR devices. A portion of the role will also involve developing, maintaining, and refining AI workflows that improve efficiency and increase impact.

Hardware Prototyping
Mechanical
Electrical
GUIs
Bring-Up
ADB
Test Fixtures
AI Tooling

Linguist

Engineering
Remote
$45 - $62
09 Months

NA

Linguist
AI
LLM
NLP
Phonetics
Phonology
Linguistics
Large Datasets
Python
SQL

Data Analyst V

Engineering
Remote
$75 - $98
12 Months

Client's Customer Experience (CX) team is dedicated to improving customer experiences across the entire customer journey. As a Customer Experience Analyst, you will be part of a global practice focused on understanding and learning from our customers. You will leverage customer insights to drive business improvements and promote customer-centric decision-making throughout the organization. You will play a pivotal role in boosting customer satisfaction and loyalty by analyzing feedback, identifying areas for improvement, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop and implement strategies that enhance the overall customer experience. By combining your strong background in CX/VoC, expertise in data analysis and storytelling, and passion for customer centricity, you will help shape the future of our customer experience program and contribute to the growth and success of our organization.

Customer Experience
CX
NPS
CSAT
VoC
Customer Feedback
Python
R
SQL

Systems Engineer II

Engineering
 Pennsylvania
$45 - $60
04 Months

Location (mandatory): Pittsburgh, PA Client is seeking a Temporary Systems Engineer to support day-to-day operations for research data collection environments. This person will help maintain, troubleshoot, and improve the hardware, software, and processes used to collect data for internal teams. The role involves working across multiple projects, coordinating with people from various disciplines (electrical, software, research, etc.), and ensuring systems stay running smoothly during active data collection sessions. This is a hands-on operational role — you won't be building systems from scratch, but you'll need to understand how they work well enough to keep them running, fix problems when they break, and improve processes over time. The work is onsite in Pittsburgh research/lab environments and requires strict adherence to data handling and participant privacy protocols.

Troubleshooting
Linux
Windows
MacOS
CLI
Python
Camera
Optical
AV
Audio
Sensor
AR
VR

Optical Engineer

Engineering
 Massachusetts
$75 - $90
03 Years

Location (mandatory): Lexington, MA Group develops application-specific solid-state lasers and beam control and diagnostics for high-energy laser systems. Examples of research activities include creating cryogenic-laser-based illuminators for sensor applications, demonstrating wavelength and coherent laserbeam - combining techniques for scaling fiber amplifier and diode laser arrays to higher brightness, and developing a ground terminal for an advanced NASA laser experiment to a moonorbiting satellite. These activities span the range from demonstrating innovative laser devices in the laboratory to designing and field-testing complete optical systems.

Optics
Geometry
Laser
Telecommunication
LDF
Thermal Management
Laser Control Systems
Characterization

Systems Administrator

Engineering
 Massachusetts
$75 - $90
03 Years

Location (mandatory): Lexington, MA Mid-level Linux Systems Administrator candidate is needed in the Communication Systems to support the development of new technologies that enable worldwide networked operations for the military and other government agencies. The division addresses the needs of next-generation satellite, airborne, and terrestrial networks using its core expertise in radio frequency (RF), fiber and free-space optics, cyber security, network protocols and services, information operations, communications processing, and speech and language technologies. The division is extensively involved in field experimentation and measurement campaigns to verify algorithms and architectural concepts in operational environments.

Linux
System Administration
Cloud
RF
Optics
Network Protocols
Algorithms

Embedded Software – Engineer

Engineering
 Massachusetts
$75 - $98
03 Years

Location (mandatory): Lexington, MA Group supports Department of Defense (DoD) designing and devel oping various testbed systems and components to assist data collection for ballistic missile defense tests. An embedded software engineer is needed to design and implement software of embedded devices and systems from requirements to production.

Test
Embedded
Data Collection
C++
C
CI/CD
RTOS
Real-Time Embedded System

Systems Administrator

Engineering
 Massachusetts
$75 - $96
03 Years

Location (mandatory): Lexington, MA The Group develops, builds, and operates prototype space and airborne LASERCOM (Laser Communication) terminals. Group needs a Sr. Linux System Administrator to support both classified/unclassified development, implement and enhance critical infrastructure and support end user workstations. Maintains operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination of infrastructure and cloud responsibilities. Develops and designs core operating system builds. Responsible for coding, virtualization, and automation of systems. Sets up administrator and service accounts, maintains an active directory of users and system documentation, tunes system performance, installs system-wide software, and allocates mass storage space. Assesses and resolves user access problems related to security controls to minimize business impact and risk exposure. Identifies and evaluates vendor products and establishes vendor monitoring and tracking processes. Performs capacity planning and monitors/tunes systems. Recommends appropriate platforms for purchase, coordinates installation, and provides backup recovery. Serves as a point of escalation for major incidents that are unresolved at the helpdesk level. Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources. May draft general IT communications to end-users including notifications of outages/downtimes.

Prototyping
LASER
Linux
DevOps

Embedded Software Engineer

Engineering
 Massachusetts
$75 - $100
03 Years

Location (mandatory): Lexington, MA The Group is seeking eager candidates to develop embedded and real-time software to support prototyping, lab experimentation, and field experimentation of novel communications and sensing applications.

Embedded
Prototyping
C++
C
Embedded C
Linux OS
RTOS
logo

At SGS Consulting, we go beyond resume-job matches, creating meaningful connections and pathways for individuals to thrive in defining careers.


© 2026 All rights reserved.
logologologologo