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Sr. FPGA Design Engineer - Camden, NJ - Active Secret Clearance Required Enginee

SOC LLC
Camden, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 5/5/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/5/2026
Sr. FPGA Design Engineer is needed for a contract to hire opportunity with SOC's client in Camden, NJ.

*Must Have Active Secret (Can start with an Interim)

Job Description:
You will be part of the key design team, responsible for the delivery of FPGAs for defense applications. You will architect, implement FPGA design, with hands on design/debug with primarily Ethernet, I2C, SPI, AXI protocols.

Our Client has state-of-the-art EDA flows/methodologies including Mentor EDA: Simulator Questa Prime, Verification IP (QVIPs), UVM framework, Clock Domain Crossing (CDC), Reset Domain Crossing (RDC), Questa Lint, Synopsys (DC/Primetime/Synplify), Xilinx/Intel/Microchip EDA (Vivado/Libero/Quartus). We are a learning organization and have the capability to target all FPGA vendors and have ASIC front end capability, with mature design processes.

This is a high impact role in the organization to ensure robust quality and delivery of communication products for National Security.

Essential Functions:
  • Derive FPGA design specifications from system requirements
  • Develop detailed FPGA architecture for implementation
  • Implement design in RTL (VHDL) and perform module level simulations
  • Perform Synthesis, Place and Route (PAR) and Static Timing Analysis (STA)
  • Perform RTL quality using: Lint, Reset Domain Crossing (RDC), Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) , Static Formal EDA
  • Generate verification test plans and perform End to End Simulations
  • Support Board, FPGA bring up
  • Validate design through HW/SW integration test with test equipment
  • Support product collateral for NSA certification

Qualifications:
  • Bachelor of Science (BS) -Four year degree or Masters (MS) or PhD from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering/Computer Science)
  • 3-5 years' experience designing FPGA products with VHDL
  • Experience with Xilinx FPGAs and Vivado
  • Experience with Revision control system
  • Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM)
  • Good written, verbal, and presentation skills
  • Active DoD Security Clearance

Preferred Additional Skills:
  • Experience with mapping algorithms to architecture
  • Experience in C (OOP)
  • Experience with any of protocols : Ethernet, TCP/IP, PCIe, NVMe, USB
  • Experience with Xilinx SoC design with SDKs and PetaLinux OS
  • Experience with High-Level Synthesis (HLS) with Vivado HLX or Mentor Catapult

Employment Pre-requisites
The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: successful completion of a background investigation, and drug urinalysis.
SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.
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#INDSOC

Estimated Min Rate: $80.50
Estimated Max Rate: $115.00

 

Salary : $81 - $115

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