FPGA Electrical Design Engineer I

About the Role

The Effector Digital Products (EDP) department develops electronics for weapon system products, engaging from the outset of development through deployment. We are responsible for the architecture, design, and documentation of deliverable FPGA embedded processing. This role involves developing FPGA designs for major vendors and device families, including Xilinx, Intel, Microchip, and Lattice. Designs are implemented using VHDL and support applications such as gigabit serial interfaces, Radio Frequency (RF) and Electro-Optical (EO) Digital Signal Processing (DSP), control loops, data links, embedded processing, and processor interfaces.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with circuit card designers and systems engineers to develop requirements, select parts, architect the device, perform code development, simulation, and place and route.
• Verify designs against requirements using directed test and constrained random methodologies.
• Provide design support from requirements definition through integration and test, and production.
• Document and configuration manage designs throughout the entire design process.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• FPGA designs for Xilinx, Intel, Microchip, and Lattice.
• Design implementation using VHDL.
• Applications: gigabit serial interfaces, RF and EO DSP, control loops, data links, embedded processing, and processor interfaces.
• Design verification methodologies: directed test and constrained random.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) major.
• Demonstrated experience with digital design and VHDL or Verilog coding.
• Familiarity with Xilinx, Altera or Microsemi/Microchip FPGAs.
• Ability to obtain an interim U.S. government issued security clearance prior to start date.
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• DoD Clearance: Secret required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to work in a team.
• Familiarity with the Linux environment and commands.
• Expertise in Xilinx, Intel, Microchip or Lattice devices and tool flows.
• Expertise in FPGA timing constraints and timing closure.
• Digital signal processing as applied to FPGA devices.
• Knowledge of C programming and scripting languages such as Perl and Python.
• Knowledge of embedded systems design utilizing Microblaze, Nios, and ARM processors.