Electrical Engineer II: FPGA

Position Summary

FPGA Engineer II – Onsite, Fort Wayne, IN. U.S. citizenship required with a current or obtainable DoD Secret clearance. The role is part of the Multi‑Product Power & Digital (MPD) department, which designs FPGA and digital systems for weapons and electronic warfare products.

• Provide full lifecycle support of production‑quality FPGA designs for AMD (Xilinx), Altera, and Microchip (Microsemi) devices.
• Generate FPGA designs for gigabit serial interfaces, RF DSP, controls, data links, embedded processing and processor interfaces.
• Assist with architecture development of FPGA‑based systems to determine parts, interfaces and Concept of Operations (CONOPS).
• Design and code in VHDL for reliability and maintainability.
• Support design verification using self‑checking techniques with directed and constrained random tests, tracking functional and code coverage.
• Report status to budget and schedule under an agile framework.
• Create documentation including requirements, verification plans and user guides.
• Act as an individual contributor and present work to leadership.
• Engage in professional growth and development.

• STEM degree and minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with FPGA/ASIC design or verification using VHDL/Verilog or System Verilog.
• Experience with AMD (Xilinx), Altera and/or Microchip (Microsemi) devices and tools such as Vivado, Quartus Prime Pro or Libero.
• Hands‑on integration and debugging of FPGA/ASIC in a lab environment.
• Experience with source‑code management, design reviews and code releases in a team development environment.

• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or related STEM field.
• Embedded systems design using ARM, Microblaze or NIOS processors.
• Experience with gigabit serial interfaces, multi‑gigabit transceivers and clock‑domain crossing analysis.
• Constrained random verification in UVM using System Verilog.
• High‑level synthesis (HLS), vector processors or GPUs.
• Timing closure and constraint development expertise.
• Demonstrated leadership of design efforts or small teams.

Relocation assistance may be offered. Eligible employees may receive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short‑term and long‑term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, employee assistance program, Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, holidays, and incentive compensation depending on the business unit.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified individuals with a disability and protected veterans in compliance with Section
503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.