Principal FPGA Engineer

Job Overview

Location: 2501 W University Dr, Wing D BLDG, McKinney, TX

Date Posted:

Position Role Type: Onsite

Security Clearance: DoD Secret – active and existing clearance required after day 1; U.S. citizenship required.

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. Our Multi-Product Power & Digital (MPD) department designs FPGAs, circuit cards, and electronics subassemblies for a range of products including missiles/effectors, radars, and electronic warfare systems.

• Provide full lifecycle support of production quality FPGA designs for all major vendors and device families using tools such as AMD Vivado, Altera Quartus Prime Pro or Libero.
• Generate FPGA designs for gigabit and multigigabit transceiver (MGT) serial interfaces, RF DSP, controls, data links, embedded processing and processor interfaces.
• Translate system-level requirements into FPGA requirements.
• Architect FPGA-based systems to determine parts, interfaces, and CONOPS.
• Lead small teams of FPGA engineers and code in VHDL for reliability and maintainability.
• Verify designs utilizing self-checking techniques with directed and constrained random tests, while tracking functional and code coverage.
• Define schedules for FPGA tasking and drive execution to the planned budget and schedule.
• Identify and manage project risks and opportunities.
• Create complete documentation including requirements, verification plan, and user’s guides.
• Lead medium sized teams to success.
• Coach, review, and delegate work to junior engineers.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert within the discipline.
• Lead internal and external technical reviews.
• Support customer interactions and relations.
• Contribute to product and technology roadmaps.
• Make improvements to processes, systems or products to enhance overall performance.
• Engage in personal technical growth and facilitate technical growth in peers and junior engineers.

• Typically requires a degree in STEM and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience to include one or more of the following:
  • FPGA/ASIC design (VHDL and/or Verilog coding) or FPGA/ASIC verification (System Verilog coding)
  • Experience with AMD (Xilinx), Altera and/or Microchip (Microsemi) devices and with tools such as AMD Vivado, Altera Quartus Prime Pro or Libero.
  • Hands‑on experience with integration and debug of FPGA/ASIC in a lab environment.
  • Experience with timing closure, clock domain crossing and reset domain crossing analysis, and constraint development.
  • Experience with source code management, design reviews, and code release in a team development environment.

• One or more advanced degrees in Electrical Engineering or a related STEM major; a suitable degree may be counted as 2 years of work experience.
• FPGA/ASIC design experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Radar processing techniques
  • Image processing techniques for visual and infrared sensors
  • Embedded systems design using ARM, Microblaze, or NIOS processors
  • Gigabit serial interfaces and multi‑gigabit transceivers (MGTs)
  • Constrained random verification in UVM using System Verilog
  • Verification utilizing emulation platforms, such as Veloce
  • Experience with High Level Synthesis (HLS)
  • Experience with vector processors and/or GPUs
  • Using AI to improve FPGA workflows (verification automation, log triage, regression analytics)
  • AI/ML inference on FPGA (Vitis AI, FINN, custom accelerators)
• Demonstrated ability to lead successful teams.
• Experience managing technical, cost, and schedule risks and opportunities.
• Experience with project management tools such as Earned Value and/or Agile Execution.
• Experience communicating and documenting technical topics and presenting to customers and management.
• Experience leading a program transition from development to production.
• Proposal development experience.
• Experience with intellectual property generation (patents & publications).
• Demonstrated mentorship of junior engineers.

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