FPGA Engineer

• Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
• Type: Contract
• Job #3371

FPGA Electronic Warfare Design Engineer
Salt Lake City, UT
Active Secret or Top Secret
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Cornerstone Defense is looking for a talented FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) design lead with industry experience in advanced signal processing techniques and/or Electronic Warfare techniques including Electronic Support and Electronic Attack. We design, develop, and test advanced electronic warfare and multi-function systems. This position would focus on the FPGA design and leading FPGA design teams in coding, simulation, synthesis, place and route, and verification testing aspects.
Job Responsibilities:
• Expertise in simulation, synthesis, and placement software tools such as ModelSim, Synplicity,
Xilinx Vivado / ISE and/or Altera Quartus development tool sets.
• Expertise in laboratory debug techniques using signal generators, digital oscilloscopes, logic
analyzers, BERTS, and other complex measurement devices.
• Expertise with timing closure in large FPGAs.
• Experience implementing Electronic Support or Attack signal processing.
• Experience implementing complex Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms in FPGA devices.
Required Skills:
• Bachelor's (Master's preferred) degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software
Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• 5+ years FPGA design experience on Digital Signal Processing designs.
• Experience with digital communications architectural design.
• Expertise in either VHDL (preferred) or Verilog hardware development languages.
• Experience implementing Electronic Warfare (EW) algorithms (either Electronic Sense (ES) or
Electronic Attack (EA)) in FPGAs in systems with Electronically steered antennas.
• Experience with systems in high doppler effects.
Desired Skills:
• Simulation, synthesis, and placement software tools such as ModelSim, Synplicity, Xilinx Vivado /
ISE and/or Altera Quartus development tool sets.
• Laboratory debug techniques using signal generators, digital oscilloscopes, logic analyzers,
BERTS, and other complex measurement devices.
• Implementation of complex Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms in FPGA devices.
• Experience with timing closure in large FPGAs.
• Experience with signal detection and identification.
• Implementation of signal processing techniques.
• Generation of arbitrary waveform data files.
• Familiarity with code revision management tools such as Git/Clearcase.
• Familiarity with C/C++/C# and Matlab/Simulink.