Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Engineer

Job Title: Senior FPGA Design Engineer

Department: Advanced Development

Reports to: Director, Advanced Development

Owl Cyber Defense is a leader and trusted partner in cyber security. We deliver solutions that protect and connect the world’s most critical networks. Owl’s product lines of cross domain, data diode, and portable media solutions provide the strongest available security checkpoints for threat prevention and secure data availability. Our in-depth expertise in security engineering at the operating system level enables us to help government and commercial customers meet ever-evolving cyber security threats.

Job Summary:

Owl has an immediate opening for a Senior FPGA Design Engineer II as our work and team is expanding. This position will have a significant role in defining and implementing new designs for FPGA-based hardware for internet protocol packet inspection and post-processing of high-speed Ethernet traffic.

This role offers a hybrid work arrangement, allowing for remote work while maintaining the ability to commute to our Columbia, MD office for key meetings, team collaboration, and in-person tasks.

• Essential Duties and Responsibilities:Design and develop an FPGA packet handling application with Custom Hardware.
• Design and develop VHDL/SystemVerilog modules and IP cores with Xilinx/Altera toolchain.
• Use Cadence® Xcelium™ for Logic Simulation
• Implement communications protocols from specification & requirement documents.
• Low latency and high throughput packet handling.
• Setup and Test new hardware platforms that are developed.
• Work effectively within a cross-functional team environment.
• Able to work in a fast-paced start-up environment.
• Testbenching and Simulation of code.
• Lead AGILE Scrum or ability to work in AGILE development environment
• Other duties as management may so direct.

Requirements/Qualifications:

Education

• College degree in a relevant field of study. i.e. computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or similar. (advanced degree a plus)

Experience

• 8 years’ work experience with embedded systems and FPGA development

Travel

• Limited travel may be required

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Technical:
• Fluent in VHDL and SystemVerilog hardware description languages
• Experience with HDL simulation & verification (Cadence Xcelium, Modelsim, etc.)
• Experience with Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) is a plus
• Working Knowledge of Vivado and Quartus
• Knowledge of Ethernet PHY, IPv4 and IPv6 protocols a plus
• Experience with UDP and TCP/IP packet handling a plus
• Knowledge of computer system architecture
• Experience debugging system level problems
• Experience with testing Hardware
• Excellent problem-solving skills and critical thinking ability
• Overall coordination, development, and execution of product development.
• Knowledge of relevant software/systems as follows:
• Development skills and overall knowledge of Linux systems
• Experience writing system level C/C code for embedded systems plus
• Experience as an embedded developer using an ARM environment a plus
• Experience with embedded Linux a plus
• Experience building and configuring Linux for custom hardware platforms a plus

• Candidates must be able to obtain/maintain a US Government security clearance.

About Owl Cyber Defense Solutions, LLC

Owl Cyber Defense Solutions, LLC is a fast-growing cybersecurity solutions company, holding a firm leadership position in network security and secure information transfer. It is a privately-owned US company with offices in Columbia, MD, Danbury, CT and Morrisville, NC. For more information, see http://www.owlcyberdefense.com.

Owl Cyber Defense is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment.