Senior Advanced FPGA Engineer

General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc • Annapolis Junction, MD

3d • $160,085 - $173,217 • Onsite

About The Position

As an FPGA design engineer, you’ll be a member of a cross functional team responsible for product design from system architecture & requirements allocation through product release and production of cost-sensitive secure products.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field, plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience.
• Ability to obtain a Department of Defense TS/SCI security clearance is required at time of hire.
• Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Solid experience in the principles and techniques of FPGA design.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Ability to think creatively, and multi-task.
• Demonstrated skill in communicating issues, impacts, and corrective actions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog and TCL or similar languages
• Experience with Zync UltraScale+ MPSoC or similar FPGAs
• Experience with Vivado or similar tools
• Experience with Zynq processors using Petalinux, Yocto, or Buildroot.
• Experience with Git for version control and CI/CD flows for FPGA.
• Experience with Multi-Gigabit Transceivers (MGTs): GTX/GTH/GTY/GTZ/etc…
• Experience with bus protocols like: 1G/10G/40G/100+G Ethernet, Interlaken, Aurora/SerialLite II, RS-232, SPI, I2C, and CAN.
• Experience interfacing to external memory interfaces like: DRAM / SRAM.
• Understanding of static timing analysis, timing closure and floor planning techniques for designs that include but are not limited to custom developed solutions with embedded hard & soft processors and with commercial & custom IP.

Responsibilities

• Design from system architecture & requirements allocation through product release and production of cost-sensitive secure products.
• Keep abreast of technology trends.
• Communicate issues, impacts, and corrective actions.
• Leadership and mentoring.

Benefits

• Opportunities for continuous learning and development
• Research oriented work
• Flexible schedules with every other Friday off work (9/80 schedule)
• Competitive benefits, including 401k matching, flex time off, paid parental leave, healthcare benefits, health & wellness programs, employee resource and social groups, and more

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior