Lead, Sr FPGA Firmware Design Engineer

L3Harris Technologies • Wilmington, MA

74d • $125,000 - $232,000

About The Position

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers' mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do. L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers' mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Requirements

• Bachelors of Science Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering with 9 years professional experience or a Graduate degree and a minimum of 7 years relevant experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Ability to obtain a Secret security clearance.
• Professional experience with development of FPGA requirements and specifications.
• 5+ years experience with VHDL, the FPGA design process, and the tools used to generate the FPGA designs.
• Experience with generating review documentation and presenting technical reviews internally and customer facing.
• Professional experience with Microchip RTG4 FPGAs and associated Microchip design tools.

Nice To Haves

• Prior or current experience leading FPGA design efforts, with responsibility for cost and schedule execution.
• Professional experience building FPGAs with difficult timing and/or difficult routing constraints.
• Experience with standard lab equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and signal generators.
• Version control tools (subversion, git, etc).
• Designing for space environments.
• High speed memory interfaces.
• High speed serial protocols (PCI Express, SRIO, Ethernet).
• Analog to Digital (AD) and Digital to Analog (DA) interfaces.
• Control protocols such I2C, SPI, RS-232/422, and SpaceWire.
• Xilinx, Microsemi, and Intel Tool Suites (VHDL, Synthesis, Place and Route, Simulation, Timing Analysis).

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Lead small teams of engineers in executing FPGA development of highly reliable and robust FPGA designs.
• Follow, enforce, and refine consistent firmware development processes across FPGA designs.
• Develop HDL code for module and top level and generate appropriate testbench and verification environments.
• Map FPGA simulation work products to system-level requirements and capabilities.
• Synthesize designs to targeted technologies and perform constraint driven place and route and analysis.
• Ensure FPGA simulations verify performance, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly.

Benefits

• Health and disability insurance.
• 401(k) match.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program).
• Education assistance.
• Parental leave.
• Paid time off.
• Company-paid holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree