FPGA Developer

Booz Allen Hamilton•Patterson, OH

About The Position

Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big‑picture thinking to make an impact on national defense? You understand your client’s environment and how to develop the right systems to support their mission. Your ability to translate real‑world needs into technical specifications makes you a key contributor to delivering client‑focused engineering solutions. As an experienced electrical engineer with a background in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) design, you will help solve complex challenges that drive the development of next‑generation satellite systems. You will take on a hands‑on role in designing, implementing, and testing FPGA‑based processing architectures, while enhancing these systems through advanced technology solutions that meet demanding space and mission requirements. You’ll apply your expertise while providing guidance to a cross-domain team focused on digital design, verification, and system integration. In this role, you will collaborate closely across engineering disciplines to ensure seamless integration of FPGA designs into spacecraft subsystems. Through this work, you will help translate system‑level requirements into robust hardware implementations that enable reliable on‑orbit performance. Join our team and help shape the future of resilient space systems in support of national security. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in digital design through HDL and schematic layout
Experience using Vivado for embedded system design
Experience with Digital Signal Processing mathematics and implementing algorithms in synthesizable HDL
Experience with scientific analysis software, such as MATLAB
Experience with benchtop equipment, including oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, arbitrary waveform generators, and vector signal generators
Knowledge of commercial RF and digital component and assembly distributors for rapid prototyping
Knowledge of wideband RF signal acquisition and generation, as well as FPGA development processes
Knowledge of RF signal propagation chain configurations
Secret clearance
Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Nice To Haves

Experience with FPGA development tools, such as AMD Vitis or Intel Quartus
Experience with EDA tools for HDL and RTL simulation, such as ModelSim, Questa, Xcelium, VCS, or Aldec
Knowledge of satellite requirements and design
Knowledge of space-specific requirements, including system hardening
Knowledge of RADAR and Electronic Attack (EA) and Electronic Support (ES) concepts
Knowledge of embedded Linux and RTOS development, including U-Boot, Yocto, BitBake, OpenEmbedded, or device tree components
Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering

Responsibilities

Designing, implementing, and testing FPGA-based processing architectures.
Enhancing these systems through advanced technology solutions that meet demanding space and mission requirements.
Providing guidance to a cross-domain team focused on digital design, verification, and system integration.
Collaborating closely across engineering disciplines to ensure seamless integration of FPGA designs into spacecraft subsystems.
Translating system-level requirements into robust hardware implementations that enable reliable on-orbit performance.