Sr Specialist, FPGA Design Engineer (Space Systems)

L3Harris•Wilmington, NC

About The Position

This self-motivated individual will be part of a team developing FPGA Firmware in the Space & Mission Systems (SAS) Segment of L3Harris. The SMS Segment provides critical mission solutions for space and airborne domains with defense, intelligence, and commercial applications. As an FPGA design engineer, you will be directly involved in one or more of the areas of design, integration, and test of advanced satellite sensor processing payloads, signal processing, command and control, and digital telemetry technology. We look forward to reviewing your application! Essential Functions: The Senior Specialist FPGA Engineer will perform the following: 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. Design Med/High Complexity Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) starting from System De-composition and completing through System Integration and Test Follow, enforce, and refine consistent firmware development processes across FPGA designs. Synthesize designs to targeted technologies and perform constraint driven place and route and analysis. Generate design review and deliverable documentation including review packages, block diagrams, interface control documents, and test plans/procedures. Conduct design peer reviews at various phases in the development process. Ensure FPGA simulations verify performance, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly. Generate verification plans and procedures to validate hardware. Perform hardware testing and debug.

Requirements

Bachelors of Science Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering with 6 years' professional experience or a Graduate degree and a minimum of 4 years' relevant professional experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years' of prior related experience.
6+ years experience using VHDL/Verilog
6+ years experience with and understanding of AMD Xilinx FPGA architectures
3+ Years of professional experience with Xilinx Vivado
3+ years experience debugging down to the hardware level & experience using Signal Generators, Logic Analyzers, Digital Oscilloscopes and Embedded FPGA Debugging tools.
Ability to obtain Secret Clearance.

Nice To Haves

FPGA development and Verification Vendor tool suites: Xilinx ISE, Xilinx Vivado, Xilinx Vitis, Microchip Libero, Mentor Graphics ModelSim/Questa, Synopsis Synplicity
Version Control tools such as GIT, SVN, CVS.
Experience with advanced verification environments such as UVM & OVM
Experience using System Verilog for verification
Build FPGAs with difficult timing and/or difficult routing constraints
Develop FPGA requirements and specifications
FPGA Device Selection and supporting the Pinout on a new CCA Design
High speed memory interfaces and/or high speed SERDES interfaces
Analog to Digital (AD) and Digital to Analog (DA) interfaces
Experience with AXI streaming and control buses
Possess the ability to interface with Hardware, Software, and Systems Engineering
Self-motivated individual with the ability to work and communicate effectively within a development group
Bring-up of advanced FPGA products such as SoC, MPSoC, RFSoC, ACAP, etc.
Digital Circuit Card Design: Schematic Entry, PCB/PWB Layout/Route, Signal Integrity 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.
Design Med/High Complexity Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) starting from System De-composition and completing through System Integration and Test
Follow, enforce, and refine consistent firmware development processes across FPGA designs.
Synthesize designs to targeted technologies and perform constraint driven place and route and analysis.
Generate design review and deliverable documentation including review packages, block diagrams, interface control documents, and test plans/procedures.
Conduct design peer reviews at various phases in the development process.
Ensure FPGA simulations verify performance, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly.
Generate verification plans and procedures to validate hardware.
Perform hardware testing and debug.