FPGA Firmware Electrical Engineer

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Job Title: FPGA Firmware Electrical Engineer

Job Code: 44394

Job Location: Fort Wayne, IN

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

This self-motivated individual will participate on a team to develop FPGA Firmware in the Space & Mission Systems (SMS) Segment of L3Harris. The SMS 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.

Essential Functions:

• 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 integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly
• Generate procedures to validate hardware, and perform hardware testing and debug
• Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• 2+ years professional experience using VHDL
• Professional experience with the FPGA design process and the tools used to generate FPGA designs
• Experience generating procedures to validate hardware, and perform hardware testing and debug
• Active Secret (or higher) 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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