Senior Digital/FPGA Design Engineer

Senior Digital / FPGA Design Engineer $158K / year or more DOE Potential relocation assistance*Kelly Government Solutions is hiring for a senior digital / FPGA design engineer on a government contract with our customer in Torrance, CA or Salt Lake City, UT.

This is a full time, direct hire opportunity.*Duties and Responsibilities : *

• Contribute to the development of new electronic product requirements through consulting with customer and system engineers
• Perform trade studies and analyses to validate conceptual designs
• Perform circuit analysis and board level design including schematic capture and specifying printed circuit board design requirements (placement constraints, trace parameters, and routing layer constraints).
• Use VHDL to develop FPGAs that interface with electronics, sensors, electro-hydraulic actuators, electromechanical components, and communication links for actuation systems or avionics equipment.
• Conduct prototype testing, integration testing, and design verification / validation testing
• Document design, analysis, and verification results with accurate and concise reports
• Perform FPGA verification in accordance with project plans and standards
• Provide formal technical presentations to internal and external customers to support program review and business development
• Specify and support design of lab test setups*Minimum Qualifications to be Considered : *
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
• Ten (10) or more years of design and development engineering experience in military / aerospace or related industries
• Digital design expertise including modern microprocessors / DSPs, high speed digital logic, FPGA, memory, analog-to-digital, digital-to-analog converters, and communication links.
• Demonstrate detailed knowledge of VHDL coding and how to optimize for performance
• Extensive experience designing test benches and simulations using digital simulation tools (example Modelsim, Active-HDL) for verification of FPGA designs
• Analysis expertise including power dissipation, power consumption, timing, signal integrity, component derating, and Acceptance Test / Built-In Test coverage
• Demonstrate detailed knowledge of board design and layout including design tools*Preferred Qualification Include : *
• Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
• Experience working with Microsemi Accelerator or IGLOO2 FPGAs
• Experience working FPGA or ASIC designs that have been qualified to RTCA DO-254 level A
• Experience with digital data busses including Ethernet, IEEE-1394, MIL-STD-1553B, ARINC 429, RS422, and RS232
• Experience with Cadence / Allegro design tools
• Experience with high-speed serial (PCIe) and asynchronous data busses
• Experience leading and mentoring less experienced design engineers
• Ability to access US export-controlled documentation*A full benefits package is available, which includes flexible planned vacation, medical, dental, vision, 401K with matching, and many more.
• What happens next : *Once you apply, you’ll proceed to next steps if your skills and experience look like a good fit. But don’t worry even if this position doesn’t work out, you’re still in our network.

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