Senior FPGA Engineer

Job Summary

• Serves as a senior technical contributor and integral participant in derived-requirements definition, avionics hardware development and implementation, and system integration, test, and verification for spacecraft and associated flight-payload and ground electronics.
• Leads and contributes to digital and FPGA hardware/firmware development, including architecture definition, FPGA design, schematic development, board functional testing, firmware development, and associated test-software development.
• Defines and evaluates technical approaches for complex engineering problems and establishes effective solutions that satisfy mission, performance, cost, schedule, reliability, and compliance requirements.
• Develops and maintains long-term technical plans for solution development, documentation, deployment, verification, sustainment, and compliance with applicable reporting and safety standards.
• Leads the evaluation and integration of engineering solutions within the overall system and program environment, ensuring that appropriate documentation, testing, maintenance, configuration management, and engineering updates are completed.
• Establishes technical objectives, develops architectures, and provides technical direction for solutions addressing advanced engineering problems.
• Plans, coordinates, and oversees the development and implementation of engineering solutions, including resource requirements, testing, documentation, integration, deployment, compliance, and safety.
• Serves as a prime technical contact for assigned projects and programs. Communicates effectively with engineering professionals, solution users, customers, management, and government representatives throughout the development lifecycle.
• Represents the Company in technical discussions with senior external personnel and coordinates technical matters across organizational boundaries.
• Provides technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to less experienced engineers and may lead multidisciplinary project teams.
• Leads or supports technical reviews, design reviews, risk assessments, root-cause investigations, and resolution of complex hardware and firmware issues.
• Plans and coordinates the maintenance and evolution of engineering solutions, including documentation, reporting, publishing, technical presentations, and updates required to ensure continued viability in an evolving environment.
• Evaluates emerging engineering technologies and plans for future applications that may improve product performance, reliability, manufacturability, testability, or mission capability.
• Leads or supports the development of new business opportunities and the expansion of existing business, including technical proposals, statements of work, customer briefings, and technology discussions.
• Maintains the strict confidentiality of sensitive information.
• Responsible for observing all laws, regulations, and other applicable obligations wherever and whenever business is conducted on behalf of the Company.
• Expected to work in a safe manner in accordance with established operating procedures and practices.
• Performs other duties as assigned or required.
• We operate on a 9x80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

Job Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelors degree, masters degree or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience as follows; twelve or more years of experience with a bachelors degree, ten or more years of experience with a masters degree, or seven or more years with a PhD. May substitute equivalent engineering experience in lieu of education.
• Demonstrates extensive and advanced technical expertise in FPGA, digital hardware, embedded systems, and engineering principles, concepts, theory, and practice.
• Demonstrates the ability to define architectures, develop technical approaches, resolve complex problems, and lead engineering efforts from requirements development through design, implementation, integration, test, verification, and deployment.
• Demonstrates strong organizational and project leadership skills, including the ability to establish priorities, develop schedules, coordinate workloads, manage technical risks, and deliver results in accordance with established deadlines and milestones.
• Must be able to quickly understand new concepts and apply them accurately in an evolving technical environment.
• Must possess strong written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to effectively interface with engineering teams, other departments, customers, government representatives, and senior external personnel.
• Must be capable of representing the organization as a prime technical contact and providing technical leadership and guidance to less experienced professionals.
• Experience leading FPGA development activities, including requirements definition, architecture, RTL design, simulation, synthesis, timing analysis, verification, integration, and laboratory debugging, is required.
• Experience with Actel/Microchip FPGA toolchains is a plus.
• Must be comfortable designing, implementing, and debugging custom and standard serial communication protocols in FPGA fabric logic using VHDL.
• Experience developing with soft-core processors and integrating FPGAs with custom protocols and standard serial interfaces is highly desired.
• Experience interfacing with focal plane arrays is a plus.
• Spacecraft hardware development experience is a plus.
• Must be comfortable designing, developing, and debugging small-scale circuitry that performs sensing, digital data manipulation, and electromechanical control.
• Proficiency working with schematics and conducting laboratory testing of electronics hardware and embedded systems is required, including use of oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and other laboratory debugging tools.
• Proficiency in the C programming language is desirable.
• Experience with software development, scripting, and the Linux operating system environment is desirable.
• Experience developing hardware and firmware for high-reliability, mission-critical, or space-qualified systems is desirable.
• Experience with configuration management, formal verification processes, design documentation, and hardware/software integration is desirable.
• Must be customer-focused and able to work independently, take initiative, and contribute effectively in a team environment.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance is required.
• Must be willing to work extended hours to meet deadlines and support project success.
• Must be willing to travel as required.

• Internal Title: Engineer VI
• Experience Level: Senior (8+ years)
• Full-Time/Part-Time: Full-Time Salary
• Workstyle: Onsite
• Pay Range Low: 118,500
• Pay Range High: 207,750
• Job Category: Engineering
• Travel Percentage Required: 0% - 25%
• Relocation Assistance Provided?: Yes
• Clearance Required?: Desired
• US Citizenship Required?: Yes
• Clearance Level: Top Secret (SCI access eligible)
• Employee Referral Bonus Amount: 1000.00