# Principal Hardware Design Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Laurel, MD
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos is seeking a Principal Hardware Design Engineer to provide technical leadership in designing, developing, testing, and reverse engineering advanced hardware solutions for mission-critical Government programs.

The successful candidate will serve as a senior technical authority, guiding complex engineering efforts, advancing innovative design methodologies, and shaping the future direction of hardware engineering capabilities supporting national security missions.

**Hardware Design & Development**

- Direct the design, development, testing, and continuous improvement of advanced integrated circuits, hardware components, embedded firmware, and signal processing technologies.

- Lead complex hardware engineering initiatives while ensuring designs remain reliable, manufacturable, cost-effective, and aligned with mission objectives.

- Provide technical direction throughout the hardware development lifecycle, supporting successful delivery of complex engineering solutions.

- Collaborate across multidisciplinary engineering organizations to resolve challenging technical problems and ensure project success.

**Physical Design & Implementation**

- Direct the application of ASIC and FPGA Place-and-Route (P&R) tools, engineering libraries, and physical implementation methodologies.

- Oversee integration of new P&R tools, design libraries, and technology updates into the Government's computer-aided design environment.

- Provide technical guidance for complex physical design, implementation, and optimization activities.

- Collaborate with tool and library vendors to evaluate and implement innovative engineering solutions.

**Reverse Engineering & Analysis**

- Lead advanced reverse engineering efforts involving integrated circuits, firmware, and complex electronic components.

- Oversee de-processing activities and firmware retrieval using approved reverse engineering procedures.

- Develop novel reverse engineering methodologies supporting new component technologies and evolving mission requirements.

- Guide hardware adaptation efforts that modify vendor-manufactured hardware to satisfy specialized Government needs.

**Technical Leadership & Innovation**

- Serve as an internal technical consultant, providing expert engineering guidance on the organization's most complex hardware design initiatives.

- Direct and review the technical work of Hardware Design Engineers while promoting engineering excellence and knowledge sharing.

- Mentor engineers across multiple experience levels, supporting technical growth and continuous learning.

- Evaluate emerging hardware technologies, engineering tools, and design methodologies to improve engineering capabilities and mission performance.

- Develop engineering best practices and technical standards that enhance design quality, innovation, and long-term maintainability.

**Required Qualifications**

- TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or university.

- Minimum of twelve years of experience in integrated circuit or microelectronic component design or reverse engineering supporting programs or contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.

**Pay Range:** $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- ASIC
- FPGA
- Place-and-Route tools
- reverse engineering

### Nice to have
- Intelligence Community
- national security missions

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