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Lead, Sr FPGA Digital Design Engineer

Wilmington, Massachusetts

Job ID 14038
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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

Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain 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.

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L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.

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