Senior DSP Firmware Engineer

The Aerospace Systems Group at Leidos currently has an opening for a talented Senior DSP Firmware Engineer supporting the Integrated RF Systems Branch in Huntsville, AL. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience in firmware design for ground-breaking advanced RF systems that provide critical information to a wide range of customers. Our team is passionate about our systems and products, and we get to see how our work makes a difference daily for our nation's warfighters. Come join our technically diverse team and put your knowledge, skills, and talent to great use!

The Integrated RF Systems Branch primary mission is to analyze, understand, exploit, and defend against foreign threats. The ideal candidate for this position will lead and support DSP firmware development efforts across multiple projects and specialized RF platforms. The selected candidate will investigate advanced digital signal processing (DSP) techniques and methods of implementation within a Field Programmable Gated Array (FPGA) architecture. The selected candidate will develop, simulate, and test across multiple platforms with differing architectures.

Basic Qualifications:

1. A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering (or related technical discipline) from an ABET accredited institute and seventeen (17+) years of relevant work history is needed. If candidate has an MS in a related field, fifteen (15+) years of relevant work history is needed.
2. Experience in FPGA firmware development from architecture through implementation, simulation, and hardware testing.
3. Proven experience with hardware description languages such as VHDL or Verilog.
4. Comprehensive understanding of digital signal processing techniques for communications and/or RF.
5. Hands-on laboratory experience with instrumentation, test equipment, and debug/test methods for proving out FPGA development on hardware.
6. Highly motivated personality with the ability to work independently and across a collaborative team environment.
7. Requires the ability to maintain a TS/SCI clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Familiarity or experience with any of the following:
2. Virtex UltraScale+ Architecture
3. Xilinx IP Integrator

Original Posting Date: 2024-09-11

Pay Range:

Pay Range $144,300.00 - $260,850.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

REQNUMBER: R-00143465

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.