Senior Manager, FPGA & EW Firmware

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Job Title:

Senior Manager, Electrical Engineering

Job Code: 44954

Job Location:

Clifton, NJ

Job Schedule:

9/80:
Employee works 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

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Harris EW in Clifton, NJ has an immediate need for highly motivated FPGA, Electrical Engineering Senior Manager. In this role you will lead a team of 6-8 engineers to develop, simulate, and integrate in lab highly specialized firmware designs targeting electronic warfare systems. Responsibilities include generation of firmware derived requirements, architecture of digital solutions to meet said requirements and formal test / lab verification of the functional system.

The qualified candidate is able to work semi-autonomously as a lead designer, potentially driving a small team of firmware engineers through coding, simulation, code analysis, and circuit card design support.

Essential Functions:

• Provide leadership and Subject Matter Expertise for the development of high reuse and easily extensible EW technology.
• Develop Signal Processing Architectures targeting single chip and distributed chip low latency signal classification and countermeasures.
• Work cross-functionally to adopt an efficient, common, mission specific, best practices derived, development process.
• Work with a variety of firmware, software, and systems development teams, assuring requirements are verified in a consistent fashion prior to firmware delivery to Integration.
• Decompose and allocate system and box-level requirements to FPGA specifications.
• Architect High Complexity solutions against requirements and implement those solutions in FPGA platforms.
• Map FPGA simulation work products to system-level requirements and capabilities
• Refine and enforce efficient, effective, and consistent firmware development processes across FPGA designs.
• Lead team of engineers generating FPGA design solutions, assuring adherence to best practices.
• Ensure the FPGA simulations verify performance, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly.
• Ability to obtain a Top-Secret security clearance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience, or Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• System level knowledge of Electronic Warfare technology with a concentration in FPGA Firmware architecture development and support.
• Experience and understanding of RF concepts and constraints including analog/digital conversion, channel bandwidth, resolution BW, noise, gain, and power.
• Experience targeting VPX architecture and familiarity with SOSA standards.
• Experience with High Complexity FPGA Digital Design Techniques and Devices.
• Experience debugging down to the hardware level & experience using Signal Generators, Logic Analyzers, Digital Oscilloscopes and Embedded FPGA Debugging tools.
• MATLAB signal processing and simulation
• FPGA:
  Mentor Graphics HDL Designer, Mentor Graphics Model Sim/Questa, Synopsis Synplicity, Xilinx…