Senior Specialist, FPGA Engineer - Cincinnati, Ohio *Relo Avail

Senior Specialist, FPGA Engineer

Location:

Cincinnati, Ohio

Base Salary: $142,000 to $161,000

Job Schedule:

4/10 – Employees work 10-hour days, 4 days per week.

Aerospace / Aviation / Defense

Engineering - Electrical

• As a Hardware Engineer, you will be responsible for architecture, design and development of next generation Electronic Safe and Arm Devices utilizing the latest state-of-the-art technologies.
• The ideal candidate for this role would share our passion for creating and innovating new technologies in a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• We are looking for highly talented, motivated, and versatile engineers that can create the next generation fuzing solutions. ASIC / FPGA designs will include various sensor interfaces, sequence verification, A/D and D/A interfaces, communication protocols, state machines, timer chains, etc. used in Electronic Safe and Arm Devices (Fuzes) for DOD weapon systems. Microsemi / Actel is our targeted FPGA and Questa Sim is our simulation tool.
• The primary responsibilities will focus on Verilog FPGA design, System Verilog UVM verification and C# based microcontroller development.

• Analysis of the requirements, architecture definition, design and debug of FPGA and associated hardware and microcontroller products and associated firmware.
• Developing Verilog HDL targeting Antifuse and enhanced Flash FPGA’s.
• Performing effective analysis of functional issues or performance profiling with the hardware and firmware in test environments or target host systems.
• Contribute to process improvements to ensure hardware‑firmware quality and time-to-market.

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• Knowledge using Verilog for Logic Design.
• Programming experience in C for embedded systems, including development of algorithms, manipulation of data structures, and implementing highly optimized code.
• Experience with lab tools:
  Logic Analyzers, oscilloscopes, JTAG/ICE debuggers and protocol analyzers.
• Familiar with hardware, software and firmware development methodologies to ensure quality and time‑to‑market (design verification, code reviews, unit testing, prototyping and product testing).
• Familiar working with code version control repository tools, such as Subversion (SVN), GIT or TFS.
• Digital Design practices and principles, logic design and architecture and experience with HDL’s (i.e Verilog, VHDL).

• Knowledge using System Verilog for verification with AVM, VMM, OVM, or UVM a plus.
• Developing C# source code targeting enhanced Flash Microcontrollers.
• Good English knowledge (speech and writing).
• Be action-orientated and organized.
• Ability to handle short notice needs/requests.