L3Harris

Job Title: Lead, FPGA Design Engineer

Job Location: Melbourne, FL

Job ID: 360

Job Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:

We are looking for a talented FPGA design engineer with industry experience in wireless digital communications, modems, networking, and/or digital signal processing (DSP).  We design advanced wireless digital communication systems and electronic warfare systems.  Development efforts include the whole lifecycle of designs from proposals, requirement definition, coding, simulation, synthesis, place and route, verification testing, and system support.  We are looking for an engineer who enjoys challenging work with a team of talented engineers and can work well both with a team and as an individual contributor. 

Areas of desired technical experience or education include:

• Modulation
• Demodulation
• Digital filters
• Forward Error Correction (FEC)
• Electronic Warfare
• Networking
• Industry standard interfaces (e.g. 10/100/1000 Ethernet, SPI, UART, SDRAM, DDR3, JESD, PCIe, Ethernet).
• FPGA verification through simulation and unit testing.

Basic 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 experience.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance

Preferred Skills:

• Current and Active Secret Clearance
• Experience in either VHDL (preferred) or Verilog development languages.
• Experience implementing complex modem and/or DSP circuits in programmable logic using FPGA devices.  Equivalent experience in ASIC design is also applicable.
• Experience in simulation, synthesis, and placement software tools such as ModelSim, Synplicity, Xilinx Vivado / ISE and/or Altera Quartus development tool sets.
• Experience with HLS (High-Level Synthesis)
• Experience with timing closure in large FPGAs.
• Experience in laboratory debug techniques using digital scopes, logic analyzers, BERTS, and other complex measurement devices.
• 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.

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