Job Title: Lead, FPGA Digital Design Engineer
Job Code: 14038
Job Location: Wilmington, MA
Relocation: Relocation assistance is available to qualified applicants
Job Description:
This position will work closely with software and systems to lead the development of FPGA Firmware in the Space & Airborne Systems (SAS) Segment of L3Harris. The SAS Segment provides mission solutions for space and airborne domains with defense, intelligence, and commercial applications.
Essential Functions:
The Lead 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.
- Architect solutions against requirements and implement those solutions in various FPGA technologies or platforms.
- Lead small teams of engineers in executing FPGA development of highly reliable and robust FPGA designs.
- Follow, enforce, and refine consistent firmware development processes across FPGA designs.
- Develop HDL code for module and top level and generate appropriate testbench and verification environments.
- Map FPGA simulation work products to system-level requirements and capabilities.
- Synthesize designs to targeted technologies and perform constraint driven place and route and analysis.
- Ensure FPGA simulations verify performance, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors of Sciense Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering with 9 years professional experience or a Graduate degree and a minimum of 7 years relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
- Professional experience with development of FPGA requirements and specifications
- Professional experience with VHDL, the FPGA design process, and the tools used to generate the FPGA designs
- Experience with generating review documentation and presenting technical reviews internally and customer facing
- Professional experience building FPGAs with difficult timing and/or difficult routing constraints
- Professional experience with Microchip RTG4 FPGAs and associated Microchip design tools
- Prior or current experience leading FPGA design efforts, with responsibility for cost and schedule execution
- Ability to secure a Secret or Top Secret security clearance
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Experience with standard lab equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and signal generators
- Version control tools (subversion, git, etc)
- Designing for space environments
- High speed memory interfaces
- High speed serial protocols (PCI Express, SRIO, Ethernet)
- Analog to Digital (AD) and Digital to Analog (DA) interfaces
- Control protocols such I2C, SPI, RS-232/422, and SpaceWire
- Linting and CDC analysis tools
- Xilinx, Microsemi, and Intel, Tool Suites (VHDL, Synthesis, Place and Route, Simulation, Timing Analysis)
- Work in an integrated team environment with Hardware, Software, and Systems Engineering
