Senior Specialist, Electrical Engineering (FPGA Design Engineer)

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Electrical Engineering (FPGA Digital Design Engineer)

Job Code: 38228

Job Location: Fort Wayne, IN

Job Schedule: 9/80 Regular

Job Description:

Responsible for developing 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:

• 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.


• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
  
  

Qualifications:

• 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

Preferred Additional Skills:

• 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.


• Digital Circuit Card Design: Schematic Entry, PCB/PWB Layout/Route, Signal Integrity Analysis.

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