L3Harris

Job Title: FPGA Design Engineer, Technical Lead

Job Code: SAS20231303-98299

Job Location: San Diego, CA

Job Description:

This self-motivated individual will help lead a team to develop FPGA Firmware in the Space & Airborne Systems (SAS) Segment of L3Harris. The SAS Segment provides critical mission solutions for space and airborne domains with defense, intelligence, and commercial applications. As an FPGA design engineer, you will be directly involved in the design, integration, and test of advanced satellite communication links, digital telemetry, signal processing, and encryption technology.

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.
• Develop FPGA simulations to verify performance and requirements, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly.
• Present and review technical designs internally and customer facing.

Qualifications:

• BS degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering and 9 or more years of professional experience with firmware development, or a Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years relevant firmware experience
• Active Top Secret or Secret clearance
• Experience with VHDL, the FPGA design process, and the tools used to design and verify FPGA designs
• Experience building FPGAs with difficult timing and/or difficult routing constraints
• Experience with standard lab equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and signal generators
• Experience with spread spectrum modems and ability to architect multiple FPGA designs for parallel demodulators

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Active Top Secret or Secret Clearance
• Familiarity with UVM and System Verilog
• Ability to combine communications/DSP system knowledge and VHDL experience
• Experience with 1553B, SpaceWire, XAUI, JESD204, I2C, SPI interfaces
• Experience with Xilinx and Microsemi development tools
• Experience with digital encryption schemes
• Experience with high speed processing

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role is $120,000.00 - $223,000.00. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.