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L3Harris Technologies · 3 days ago

Sr Specialist, FPGA Design Engineer

Fort Wayne, IN

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

6+ years exp

L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry, providing end-to-end technology solutions for national security. The Senior Specialist FPGA Engineer will be involved in developing FPGA firmware, focusing on design, integration, and testing of advanced communication and signal processing technologies.

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

Architect solutions against requirements and implement those solutions in various FPGA technologies or platforms

Design Med/High Complexity Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) starting from System De-composition and completing through System Integration and Test

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 integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly

Generate verification plans and procedures to validate hardware

Perform hardware testing and debug

Qualification

VHDL/VerilogAMD Xilinx FPGA architecturesXilinx VivadoFPGA developmentFPGA verification toolsTiming closureDebugging hardwareSchedule creationTeam leadershipCommunication skillsSelf-motivated

Required

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

6+ years experience using VHDL/Verilog

6+ years experience with and understanding of AMD Xilinx FPGA architectures

3+ Years of professional experience with Xilinx Vivado

3+ years experience performing timing closure, optimizing FPGA resource utilization

3+ years experience debugging down to the hardware level, using Signal Generators, Logic Analyzers, Digital Oscilloscopes and Embedded FPGA Debugging tools

Desire and demonstrated ability to lead design teams of varying sizes

Demonstrated ability to create schedules and on-time delivery as a team lead and individual contributor

Ability to obtain Secret Clearance

Preferred

FPGA development and Verification Vendor tool suites: Xilinx ISE, Xilinx Vivado, Xilinx Vitis, Microchip Libero, Mentor Graphics ModelSim/Questa, Synopsis Synplicity

Version Control tools such as GIT, SVN, CVS

Experience with advanced verification environments such as UVM & OVM

Experience using System Verilog for verification

Build FPGAs with difficult timing and/or difficult routing constraints

Develop FPGA requirements and specifications

FPGA Device Selection and supporting the Pinout on a new CCA Design

High speed memory interfaces and/or high speed SERDES interfaces

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

Experience with AXI streaming and control buses

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

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

Bring-up of advanced FPGA products such as SoC, MPSoC, RFSoC, ACAP, etc