FPGA Design Engineer

DPP•San Diego, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

DPP is seeking a FPGA Design Engineer for our client in the Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing industry. This is a 6-month W2 contract role located onsite in San Diego, CA, with a 9x80 work schedule. The role requires US citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret DoD clearance. The engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, integrating, and testing VHDL-based digital designs, primarily focused on software-defined radio VHDL firmware code bases, using FPGA programming development tools and environments. Collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams including Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering, Hardware, and Integration & Test is expected, within either a waterfall or Agile software development environment. The role involves analyzing system concepts, requirements, and design documents to resolve functional, performance, or timing issues.

Requirements

BS + 5 years of experience in related STEM field; MS + 3 years of experience.
Significant hands-on current experience in the field of VHDL design.
Excellent written and communication skills and be able to work independently and within groups.
Have working knowledge of formal engineering development process, VHDL design and verification.
An active Secret Clearance is required to start.

Nice To Haves

8 or more years of professional technical experience.
Experience with VHDL design and OSVVM verification for FPGA firmware
Experience with AMD/Xilinx series including Zynq, Kintex, Ultrascale, Versal family of devices.
Experience with Communication Protocols (I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, Ethernet)
Experience with Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools: Vivado, Quartus, QuestaSim
Knowledgeable in FPGA physical constraints and achieving timing closure.
Generation of Test benches and support of formal VHDL Verification.
Experience with board RO system level debug using test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
Experience with translating systems requirements into programmable logic requirements, design documents, and test specifications.
Hands on experience with DoD communications systems.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, integrate and test VHDL-based digital designs for our end-user customers and businesses, primarily focused on software defined radio VHDL firmware code bases.
Work using FPGA programming development tools and environments
Work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as with Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering, Hardware, and Integration & Test
Work in waterfall or Agile software development environment
Analyze system concept of operation, requirements and design documents to resolve functional, performance or timing issues.