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Hardware Design Engineer II

DPP

Job Location:

Rolling Meadows, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 8 September 2026 (10 hours ago)

Application Deadline: 6 December 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

DPP is seeking a Hardware Design Engineer II for an opportunity with our client in the Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing industry.

Work location: Onsite in Rolling Meadows IL
Duration: 6 months
Terms: W2 Contract
Work authorization: US Citizen; must hold a current/active Secret clearance

Position Summary:

As a Hardware Design Engineer II you will join our diverse team and be responsible for research design and development of digital hardware products.
The Hardware Design Engineer 2 role involves full life-cycle product development from system concept and requirements through design implementation test verification production and field support while working in integrated product teams spanning Engineering Manufacturing and Program Management.
Digital subsystem and circuit card designs utilize the latest FPGA technologies from all major vendors and device families including Xilinx Altera and Actel and support high speed interfaces Radio Frequency (RF) and Electro-Optical (EO) DSP controls data links embedded processing and processor interfaces.
Your expertise in digital component design and analysis modeling and simulation circuit level design and test and project leadership are desired for this position.
Research design develop and test a variety of electronic equipment and systems including radar and radiation detection equipment; radio television and other communications equipment and systems; circuitry components; analog and digital computers; and control and test equipment.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline with a minimum of 5 years of digital electronics design experience;
OR a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering;
OR similar engineering discipline and 3 years of digital electronics design experience.
Digital circuit design experience including simulation & schematic capture through test and integration.
Prior hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex digital subsystems such as complex circuit card development involving FPGAs and/or embedded processors and/or high-speed interfaces.
Demonstrated ability to lead projects with 2 or less team members.
Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements design and test specifications.
Familiarity with documentation revision control and review systems like DOORS ClearCase and ClearQuest.
US Citizenship required.
Current Active Secret Clearance with additional customer specified clearance prior to start.

Preferred Qualifications:

Advanced degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with a minimum 10 years of digital electronics design experience.
Working knowledge of Electronic Warfare systems.
Experience in Aerospace and/or Defense industries.
Recent circuit card design experience utilizing circuit-related tools including Cadence Concept Allegro and/or Mentor Dx Designer Expedition.
Working experience with ClearCase/ClearQuest and DOORS.
Current Top-Secret Security Clearance.
Proven skills to include team leadership mentoring others communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally being adaptable creative collaborative and comfortable working independently and enjoying solving difficult problems.

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DP Professionals (DPP) offers a range of compensation and benefits packages to our employees and their eligible dependents. DPP is a certified Woman-owned Small Business Enterprise (WBE and WOSB) with more than 25 years in the staffing industry. EOE/AA/V/D

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