Senior Specialist, Electrical Engineering – FPGA Design Engineer

Role Overview

• Responsible for developing FPGA Firmware in the Space & MIssion Systems (SMS) Segment of L3Harris.
• 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.
• Design Med/High Complexity Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) starting from System De-composition and completing through System Integration and Test
• Follow, enforce, and refine consistent firmware development processes across FPGA designs.
• Synthesize designs to targeted technologies and perform constraint driven place and route and analysis.
• Generate design review and deliverable documentation including review packages, block diagrams, interface control documents, and test plans/procedures.
• Conduct design peer reviews at various phases in the development process.
• Ensure FPGA simulations verify performance, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly.
• Generate verification plans and procedures to validate hardware.
• Perform hardware testing and debug.

Requirements

• Bachelors of Science Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering with 6 years' professional experience or a Graduate degree and a minimum of 4 years' relevant professional experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years' of prior related experience
• 6+ years experience using VHDL/Verilog
• 6+ years experience with and understanding of AMD Xilinx FPGA architectures
• 3+ Years of professional experience with Xilinx Vivado
• 3+ years experience performing timing closure, optimizing FPGA resource utilization
• 3+ years experience debugging down to the hardware level, using Signal Generators, Logic Analyzers, Digital Oscilloscopes and Embedded FPGA Debugging tools
• Preferred Additional Skills: FPGA development and Verification Vendor tool suites: Xilinx ISE, Xilinx Vivado, Xilinx Vitis, Microchip Libero, Mentor Graphics ModelSim/Questa, Synopsis Synplicity Version Control tools such as GIT, SVN, CVS.
• Experience with advanced verification environments such as UVM & OVM
• Experience using System Verilog for verification
• Build FPGAs with difficult timing and/or difficult routing constraints
• Develop FPGA requirements and specifications
• FPGA Device Selection and supporting the Pinout on a new CCA Design
• High speed memory interfaces and/or high speed SERDES interfaces
• Analog to Digital (AD) and Digital to Analog (DA) interfaces
• Experience with AXI streaming and control buses
• Possess the ability to interface with Hardware, Software, and Systems Engineering
• Self-motivated individual with the ability to work and communicate effectively within a development group
• Bring-up of advanced FPGA products such as SoC, MPSoC, RFSoC, ACAP, etc.
• Digital Circuit Card Design: Schematic Entry, PCB/PWB Layout/Route, Signal Integrity Analysis.

Tech Stack

• Assembly
• Subversion