Sr Specialist, FPGA Digital Design Engineer (Secret Clearance)

Job Title : Sr Specialist, FPGA Digital Design Engineer (Secret Clearance)

Job Code : 18776

Job Location : Fort Wayne, IN

Job Schedule : 9 / 80 (Every other Friday off!)

Relocation : Relocation assistance is avaiable to qualified applicants

Job Description :

This self-motivated individual will participate on a team to develop FPGA Firmware in the Space & Airborne Systems (SAS) Segment of L3Harris. The SAS Segment provides critical mission solutions for space and airborne domains with defense, intelligence, and commercial applications. As an FPGA design engineer, you will be directly involved in one or more of the areas of design, integration, and test of advanced satellite communication links, digital telemetry, signal processing, and / or encryption technology. We look forward to reviewing your application!

Essential Functions :

The Senior Specialist FPGA Engineer will perform the following :

Support proposal efforts in the estimation and planning of end-to-end FPGA development.

Decompose and allocate system and box-level requirements to FPGA requirements and specifications.

Assist in architecting solutions against requirements and implement those solutions in various FPGA technologies or platforms.

Follow, enforce, and refine consistent firmware development processes across FPGA designs.

Synthesize designs to targeted technologies and perform constraint driven place and route and analysis.

Generate design review and deliverable documentation including review packages, block diagrams, interface control documents, and test plans / procedures.

Conduct design peer reviews at various phases in the development process.

Ensure FPGA simulations verify performance, then i ntegrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly.

Generate procedures to validate hardware, and perform hardware testing and debug.

Qualifications :

Bachelors of Science Degree in Electrical / Computer Engineering with 6 years' professional experience or a Graduate degree and a minimum of 4 years' relevant FPGA experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years' of prior related experience.

Active Secret security clearance required

5 years experience using VHDL

Professional experience with the FPGA design process and the tools used to generate FPGA designs

Preferred Additional Skills :

Active Top Secret security clearance is preferred, but not required

Build FPGAs with difficult timing and / or difficult routing constraints

Develop FPGA requirements and specifications

High speed memory interfaces and / or high speed SERDES interfaces

Analog to Digital (AD) and Digital to Analog (DA) interfaces

Experience with vendor tool suites such as Xilinx, Microsemi, or Intel

Familiarity with Questasim simulator and Synopsys Synplify / Synplify Pro synthesis

Possess the ability to interface with Hardware, Software, and Systems Engineering

Version control tools (subversion, git, etc.)

Self-motivated individual with the ability to work and communicate effectively within a development group

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