Sr. FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) Engineer

Sr. FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) Engineer

Location: Phoenix AZ -Onsite

Citizenship: US Citizen required

Experience: 15-20 years

Position type: FTE

Job Description

The Electrical Engineer designs, tests and documents safety-critical hardware. Responsible for developing and supporting FPGA/CPLD designs through all phases of design and system integration for high-reliability embedded aerospace and ground based vehicle systems applications.

Responsibilities

• Perform activities such as requirements generation, design, RTL-synthesis, test bench development and design simulation, static timing and power analysis, and requirements based design verification.
• Prototype evaluation, design-to-cost tradeoffs, design reviews, qualification test support, system integration support, production and obsolescence support tasks.
• Maintain the desire to stay current in the continuously developing field and to expand knowledge base and skills in FPGA design and digital hardware engineering.
• Works with hardware engineers and senior management to enhance existing applications and build additional applications
• Designs and develops hardware systems
• Tests and modifies hardware to ensure it meets specifications and requirements
• Understands and utilizes internal processes and tools for the development of hardware
• Decisions may have minor impact on cost, schedule, and technical performance
• Contributes to engineering estimates on simple hardware designs
• Improved depth of product domain knowledge
• Bachelor's Degree and 15-20 years’ work experience or Master’s Degree and 12 years of work experience.
  
  

Required Skills And Education

• Experience with aerospace controls
• 15-20 years circuit design experience, with the demonstrated ability to design HDL-based FPGAs and CPLDs.
• Knowledge of digital electronic devices and circuit design principles. Experience using design/analysis tools, such as Timing Designer and Hyperlynx a plus.
• Hands-on hardware build, test, and integration experience.
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to effectively work in a team environment.
• Excellent problem solving skills, judgment, and analytical capability, along with follow-up and monitoring skills.
• Strong written and oral presentation skills.
• Experience with Matlab and Simulink for auto-generation of FPGA code
• Familiarity with FPGA integration into digital circuit card designs to ensure electrical integrity of FPGA design in embedded applications.
• 15-20 years’ work experience
• Up to 25% Travel
• Minimum Training/Education: BSEE
• US Citizenship
  
  

Required

Preferred Skills and Education

• Experience with any of the following is a plus:
• Design experience with Microprocessor/Microcontroller interfaces such as I2C, SPI, CAN bus ARINC-825, memory interfaces such as SDRAM controllers, Flash, SRAM; serial interfaces (MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429, RS422, RS485, AFDX ARINC-664) and FPGA design using Microsemi, Xilinx, Lattice, Altera, etc.
• Familiarity with RTCA/DO-254 hardware development objectives
• Design tools such as Synplify, ModelSim, Questasim
• Experience with high-speed Digital circuit card design, including part placement and routing, constraint generation, and signal integrity analysis.
• Experience with VHDL, System Verilog designs and UVM test benches
• Experience with state machines, code coverage
• Experience with Requirements Management tools (i.e. DOORS), Configuration Management, and Problem Reporting tools.
• Knowledge of commercial certification objectives and activities.
• Experience with development of formal validation and verification procedures.
• Flight critical fly-by-wire Flight Controls, Actuators, Air Data Systems, Pilot Inceptors, Inertial Sensors and/or Autopilot systems.
  
  

Perform engineering duties such as the planning of manufacturing, and the installation, operation, and maintenance of electrical apparatus. The Senior Electrical Engineer will perform many of the same activities as the Experienced level and in addition work on larger, more complex and/or sophisticated projects, processes and/or apparatus. May provide work leadership and training to lower level professional and technical staff. Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and four to seven years of experience.