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L3Harris Technologies · 1 day ago

Lead, Firmware (FPGA) Engineer

San Diego, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$125K/yr - $232K/yr

9+ years exp

L3Harris Technologies is a leader in the defense industry, focusing on delivering technology solutions for national security. The Lead Firmware (FPGA) Engineer will design, develop, and implement high-performance FPGAs for communications applications, leading projects from concept to deployment and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

CommercialInformation TechnologyNational Security

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

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

Collaborate with RF engineers to integrate FPGA designs with RF front-end components and ensure seamless system performance

Develop and optimize FPGA designs for RF communication systems, including filtering, mixing, signal conversion, and error correction coding

Design, implement, and verify FPGA-based digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms for modulation and demodulation

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, including peer reviews

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

Ensure FPGA simulations verify performance, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly

Qualification

VHDLFPGA development toolsRF principlesDigital signal processingSystem-level simulation toolsDebugging toolsEmbedded systemsCryptographic algorithmsCommunication skills

Required

Active Secret Security Clearance

Bachelor's Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience

9+ years experience with VHDL, the FPGA design process, the tools used to generate the FPGA designs, and high-speed digital design and timing analysis

9 years of experience with FPGA development tools such as Xilinx Vivado, Altera Quartus, or similar

5 years of experience with RF principles, including filtering, mixing, and signal conversion

5 years of experience with digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms and their implementation on FPGAs

5 years of experience with debugging tools including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and signal generators

3 years of experience with system-level simulation tools such as MATLAB/Simulink