Lead FPGA Design Engineer

Salt Lake City, UT – *Relocation Assistance Provided*

The Company

Our client is one of the largest, successful aerospace, defense and technology innovators in the world. They operate in over 100 countries and provide strategic solutions to the US, in order to protect and defend our freedoms worldwide, with advancing space access, supporting national security, civil service, and transportation safety. Their employees are passionate about their customers and their mission, as they enjoy working with cutting edge technologies and advancements that are positively impacting our society.

The Job

Our client is looking for a talented FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) lead design engineer with industry experience in advanced signal processing techniques and/or Electronic Warfare techniques including Electronic Support and Electronic Attack. They design, develop, and test advanced electronic warfare and multi-function systems. Their development efforts include the whole lifecycle of designs from proposals, requirement definition, coding, simulation, synthesis, place and route, verification testing, and system support. This position would focus on the coding, simulation, synthesis, place and route, and verification testing aspects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related software engineering experience.
• Leading an FPGA design team in the implementation and verification of complex designs in large FPGA devices.
• Experience in simulation, synthesis, and placement software tools such as ModelSim, Synplicity, Xilinx Vivado / ISE and/or Altera Quartus development tool sets.
• Experience in laboratory debug techniques using signal generators, digital oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, BERTS, and other complex measurement devices.
• Experience with timing closure in large FPGAs.
• Experience implementing industry standard interfaces (e.g. 10/100/1000 Ethernet, SPI, UART, SDRAM, DDR3, JESD, PCIe, Ethernet).
• Familiarity with/exposure to some or all of the following:
  • Modulation
  • Demodulation
  • Digital filters
  • Forward Error Correction (FEC)
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Networking

Preferred Skills

• Bachelor’s (Master’s preferred) degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• 9+ years FPGA design experience on Digital Signal Processing designs.
• Experience leading technical employees in complex FPGA design
• Skilled in either VHDL (preferred) or Verilog hardware development languages.
• Experience implementing Electronic Support signal processing.
• Experience implementing Electronic Attack signal processing.
• Experience implementing complex Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms in FPGA devices. Equivalent experience in ASIC devices is also applicable.
• FPGA Design using High-speed serial interfaces (3+ Gbps)
• Familiarity with code revision management tools such as Git/Clearcase.
• Familiarity with C/C++/C# and Matlab/Simulink.

Security Clearance:

Please be aware this position requires one to be eligible for a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.