Senior Specialist, FPGA Engineering

L3Harris Technologies•Carlsbad, CA

11d•$106,500 - $197,500•Onsite

About The Position

L3Harris is seeking an experienced FPGA design engineer to develop advanced wireless digital communication and electronic warfare systems. The work spans the full design lifecycle, including proposals, requirements definition, coding, simulation, synthesis, place and route, and verification testing. The engineer will work on a team of engineers and contribute both collaboratively and independently. The position is based in Carlsbad, California, with a 9/80 schedule: employees work nine days over a 14-day period, totaling 80 hours, and have every other Friday off.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and 6 years of prior experience, or a graduate degree and 4 years of prior experience; alternatively, at least 10 years of prior related experience in lieu of a degree.
Active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience developing in VHDL (preferred) or Verilog.
Experience implementing complex modem and/or DSP circuits in programmable logic using FPGA devices; equivalent ASIC design experience is also applicable.
Experience with modem FPGA development, including discrete-time DSP and digital communications.
Experience with modem or high-speed DSP data paths, digital filters, FFTs, and error-correction codes such as Turbo or LDPC.
Experience with simulation, synthesis, and placement tools such as ModelSim, Synplicity, Xilinx Vivado/ISE, or Altera Quartus.
Experience with high-level synthesis (HLS).
Laboratory debug experience using digital scopes, logic analyzers, BERTs, and other complex measurement devices.
FPGA design experience using high-speed serial interfaces (3+ Gbps).
Experience with software/FPGA interfaces, memory controllers, and high-speed interfaces.
Experience with testbench architectures and working knowledge of Matlab, SystemC, C, and/or C++.
Familiarity with code revision management tools such as Git/Bitbucket and JIRA.

Responsibilities

Develop FPGA designs for wireless digital communications and electronic warfare systems.
Work across design activities including proposals, requirements definition, coding, simulation, synthesis, place and route, and verification testing.
Develop or work with forward error correction (FEC), modulation, demodulation, digital filters, electronic warfare, networking, and industry-standard interfaces.
Verify FPGA designs through simulation and unit testing.