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Senior Specialist, Electrical Engineering (FPGA Design Engineer)

Harris Corporation
Fort Wayne, IN Full Time
POSTED ON 4/16/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/16/2026
L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers' mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers' mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Electrical Engineering (FPGA Digital Design Engineer)

Job Code: 34442

Job Location: Fort Wayne, IN

Job Schedule: 9/80 Regular

Job Description:

Responsible for developing FPGA Firmware in the Space & Mission Systems (SMS) 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 communication links, digital telemetry, signal processing, and/or encryption technology.

Essential Functions:
  • 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.
  • Ability to obtain a Secret clearance

Qualifications:
  • 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 performing timing closure, optimizing FPGA resource utilization
  • 3 years experience debugging down to the hardware level, using Signal Generators, Logic Analyzers, Digital Oscilloscopes and Embedded FPGA Debugging tools

Preferred Additional Skills:
  • 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.

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L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.

Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

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