Electrical Engineering - Cleared Contractor - L5

Job Title: FPGA Engineer
Location:Herdnon, VA
Duration:12 months


Active Secret Clearance is required


Description:
Reporting to the Manager, Engineering (ASIC/FPGA), the Senior Member of Engineering Staff (SMES) will be part of the key design team, responsible for the delivery of FPGAs for defense applications. S/he will architect, implement FPGA design, with hands on design/debug with primarily Ethernet, I2C, SPI, AXI protocols.


Essential Functions:


Derive FPGA design specifications from system requirements
Develop detailed FPGA architecture for implementation
Implement design in RTL (VHDL) and perform module level simulations
Perform Synthesis, Place and Route (PAR) and Static Timing Analysis (STA)
Perform RTL quality using: Lint, Reset Domain Crossing (RDC), Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) , Static Formal EDA
Generate verification test plans and perform End to End Simulations
Support Board, FPGA bring up
Validate design through HW/SW integration test with test equipment
Support product collateral for NSA certification


Qualifications:


Bachelor of Science (BS) -Four year degree or Masters (MS) or PhD from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering/Computer Science)
3-5+ years' experience designing FPGA products with VHDL
Experience with Xilinx FPGAs and Vivado
Experience with Revision control system
Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM)
Good written, verbal, and presentation skills
Active DoD Security Clearance


Preferred Additional Skills:


Experience with mapping algorithms to architecture
Experience in C++ (OOP)
Experience with any of protocols : Ethernet, TCP/IP, PCIe, NVMe, USB
Experience with Xilinx SoC design with SDKs and PetaLinux OS
Experience with High-Level Synthesis (HLS) with Vivado HLX or Mentor Catapult