Sr. FPGA Engineer

Business Title: Sr. FPGA Engineer

Location: Melbourne, FL 32901

Job Type: Direct hire / Full-time

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 5-10 years’ work experience or master’s degree and 3 years of work experience.

Required Skills:

• Experience with VHDL, System Verilog designs and UVM test benches
• Please for Aerospace a DO-254 experience
• 5-10 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.
• 5-10 years’ work experience
• Up to 25% Travel
• Minimum Training/Education: BSEE

Skills:

• FPGA Design
• D0-254
• System Verilog designs/ UVM
• VHDL Coding
• Design Verification testing or Target testing in lab