Lead, Sr FPGA Digital Design Engineer

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L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs.

The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 50,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.

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 :

The Lead FPGA Engineer will perform the following :

• 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 Sciense 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 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
30+ days ago