Sr. FPGA Engineer

Overview

Sr. FPGA Engineer

Location:

Cedar Rapids, IA – onsite work only

Employment:
Full-time

Aerospace domain

Visa: U.S. Citizens or Green Card holders

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.
• 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.

• Bachelor's Degree and 10-12+ years’ work experience or Master’s Degree and 8+ years of work experience.
• 10-12+ 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.
• 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.
• Up to 25% travel.
• Minimum Training/
  
  Education:
  
  BSEE.

• 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 (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, Model Sim, 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 (e.g., DOORS), Configuration Management, and Problem Reporting tools.