FPGA Design Engineer Security Clearance

Position: FPGA Design Engineer with Security Clearance
Clearance Jobs is currently partnering with our customer, a technology company that crafts, deploys and operates innovative SATCOM products and services, to assist in hiring an FPGA Design Engineer on a full time, permanent basis. This position must be performed onsite in either Marlborough, MA or Carlsbad, CA and requires an active Secret security clearance preferred.

Title:

FPGA Design Engineer

Location:

Marlborough, MA or Carlsbad, CA or Tampa, FL (Onsite)
Salary Range: $125K-165K (dependent upon experience)
Travel:
Up to 10%
Category:
Engineering
Security Clearance:
Active Secret security clearance
Business Function:
Government

What You’ll Do:

Clearance Jobs’ customer is a rapidly growing technology company that crafts, deploys and operates innovative SATCOM products and services that span the globe! As an FPGA Design Engineer, you’ll work with highly motivated engineers in an exciting and dynamic environment. You will be able to use your engineering experience to support the next generation of advanced communications products and systems. In this role you will help develop high-speed signal processing algorithms and/or network protocols in FPGAs.

The individual will be responsible for the full design phase starting from the requirements phase to documentation, block diagrams, implementation of source code, simulation, place & route, testing in hardware, and integration. The individual will collaborate with other engineers from different fields and must be capable of working in both a small team setting and a larger team setting. Experience in the development of high-performance FPGA designs, network encryptors and cryptographic devices is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Design FPGA module and system level architectures with Verilog and/or VHDL

• Develop simulations for modules and systems

• Synthesizes Verilog and/or VHDL to FPGA products

• Develop timing constraints, analyze timing results, and implement design changes required to close timing

• Generate and collaborate on required design documents, development requirements, specifications and verification protocols

• Work closely with hardware and hardware engineers, bringing up boards, interpreting data sheets and schematics

• Conduct code and design reviews and participate in multi-functional reviews

• Maintain and control FPGA code revision history

• Responsible for owning and driving technical issues to resolution

• Integrates and debugs design in the laboratory

Qualifications:

• Active United States Secret Security Clearance required

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related field

• 8+ years FPGA design experience

• Foundational knowledge of digital logic and timing considerations

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to work with a geographically distributed team

• Attention to detail, ability to follow process and coding guidelines, participate in code reviews and accept feedback

• Experience with Programmable Logic EDA tools, such as AMD/Xilinx ISE/Vivado, Intel/Altera Quartus, Siemens/Mentor Graphics, Synopsys Synplify, Soft Core Micro embedments in Micro Chip, etc.

• Proven track record to design and implement FPGA modules using Verilog and/or VHDL with simulation and testbench development

• Familiarity with designing and coding for re-use, maintainability and scalability

• Desire to a member of a team, collaborating on large system designs

• Work independently, take initiative, and take ownership of tasks and results

• Ability to travel up to 10% Nice to Have:

• MSEE degree preferred

• Familiarity with TCL, Perl, Python or another scripting language

• Experience with high-speed interfaces like SERDES, DDR2/3/4, LVDS

• Proven experience in debugging, diagnosing, and solving embedded designs issues

• System Verilog design verification techniques, UVM, or other sophisticated verification methodologies

• Experience and familiarity with Linux-based development environments

About the Company:

One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. Clearance Jobs’ customer is on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, our customer has helped shape how consumers,…