Sr. FPGA Engineer II
$143,300–$238,700 year
On-siteChantilly, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Complete FPGA logic design, coding, simulation, and testing for advanced Electro-Optical (EO/IR) technology supporting the U.S. Space Development Agency's Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. Collaborate with hardware design teams on requirements and support product bring-up and test alongside software development teams. Execute debugging in the lab, perform synthesis, implementation, and timing analysis, and provide subject-matter expertise on design and automated test procedures to customers and production support. Analyze customer specifications, datasheets, and manuals to determine design approaches and feasibility. This role is based at the Optical Systems sites in Chantilly, VA, requiring a U.S. Government Security Clearance.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer engineering or electrical engineering or equivalent discipline
- 8+ years of experience
- Experience in FPGA firmware design with VHDL
- Ability to obtain and maintain an U.S. Government Security Clearance
- U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Xilinx/AMD Versal architecture
- Experience with FPGAs and embedded systems in a radiation environment, including SEU/SEL impact and mitigation
- Experience in FPGA- or ASIC-based image processing algorithms
- Experience in both creating IP from scratch in RTL and integrating existing IP into RTL and block designs
- Familiarity with C, Python or MATLAB and/or experience translating algorithms from a scripted language to HDL
- Experience with software interfaces including interrupts and DMA
- Experience with DDR4, Aurora, and high-speed transceiver design and verification
- Familiarity with AXI Stream and AXI Memory Mapped interfaces
- PCB design and schematic capture and layout with tools such as Altium Designer
- Active TS/SCI security clearance
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