Lead, Sr FPGA Digital Design Engineer

Job Title: Lead, FPGA Digital Design Engineer

Job Code: 14038

Job Location: Wilmington, MA

Relocation: Relocation assistance is available to qualified applicants

Job Description:

This position will work closely with software and systems to lead the development of FPGA Firmware in the Space & Airborne Systems (SAS) Segment of L3Harris. The SAS Segment provides mission solutions for space and airborne domains with defense, intelligence, and commercial applications.

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.
• Lead small teams of engineers in executing FPGA development of highly reliable and robust FPGA designs.
• Follow, enforce, and refine consistent firmware development processes across FPGA designs.
• Develop HDL code for module and top level and generate appropriate testbench and verification environments.
• Map FPGA simulation work products to system-level requirements and capabilities.
• Synthesize designs to targeted technologies and perform constraint driven place and route and analysis.
• Ensure FPGA simulations verify performance, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors of Science Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering with 9 years professional experience or a Graduate degree and a minimum of 7 years relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Professional experience with development of FPGA requirements and specifications.
• Professional experience with VHDL, the FPGA design process, and the tools used to generate the FPGA designs.
• Experience with generating review documentation and presenting technical reviews internally and customer facing.
• Professional experience building FPGAs with difficult timing and/or difficult routing constraints.
• Professional experience with Microchip RTG4 FPGAs and associated Microchip design tools.
• Prior or current experience leading FPGA design efforts, with responsibility for cost and schedule execution.
• Ability to secure a Secret or Top Secret security clearance.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience with standard lab equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and signal generators.
• Version control tools (subversion, git, etc).
• Designing for space environments.
• High speed memory interfaces.
• High speed serial protocols (PCI Express, SRIO, Ethernet).
• Analog to Digital (AD) and Digital to Analog (DA) interfaces.
• Control protocols such as I2C, SPI, RS-232/422, and SpaceWire.
• Linting and CDC analysis tools.
• Xilinx, Microsemi, and Intel Tool Suites (VHDL, Synthesis, Place and Route, Simulation, Timing Analysis).
• Work in an integrated team environment with Hardware, Software, and Systems Engineering.