ASIC & FPGA Design Engineer – E2

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The Silicon Solutions team of Lockheed Martin Space is building the best ASIC/FPGA team in the world, and are seeking a highly talented and motivated ASIC & FPGA Design Engineer who has a passion for microchip design and space. You will be working at the Supplier site in Cambridge MA.

• Work with low SWaP, radiation hardened, space rated devices.
• Perform all aspects of ASIC and FPGA development through the lifecycle from initial requirements capture through architecture, design, analysis, simulations and test in a Linux-based high-performance computing environment.
• Support technical reviews and present to internal and external stakeholders.
• Interface with an independent verification team who will be working in parallel, verifying the design.

• You need to be an independently minded and well organized engineer, comfortable in laboratory digital environments, and able to respond and interact with a dynamic fast-moving team.
• 5 years professional FPGA development experience.
• While no clearance is needed to start in this position, you will need to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance , thus US Citizenship is required.

The information below reflects the standard job description for this position:

Develops, designs, verifies, and documents Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) development. Determines architecture design, logic design, and system simulation. Assignments include the analysis of all aspects from high-level design to synthesis, place and route, and timing and power utilization. Typically uses specialized equipment to establish operation data, conduct experimental tests, and evaluate results.

• Bachelor of Science or higher from an accredited college in Electrical Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education.

• Must have 1 years professional FPGA development experience.

• HDL programming knowledge or experience with VHDL, Verilog, and/or System Verilog.

• Willing and able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance, thus US Citizenship is required for this position.

• Masters Degree.

• Experience in ASIC / FPGA life cycle (architecture, design, simulation, verification, validation, integration & test).

• FPGA/ASIC verification experience is a plus.

• Experience with electronics design

• Experience in lab integration, and troubleshooting activities

• Knowledge of space-grade/qualified FPGAs and ASICs and toolsets including AMD/Xilinx Vivado or Microchip Libero.

• Experience or knowledge of MS Project, JIRA.

• Experience with MS Project, JIRA or equivalent a plus.

• Experience with Earned Value Management System (EVMS).

• Experience mentoring junior engineers.

• Proficient in AI prompting as it…