Principal FPGA Engineer

Principal Electrical Engineer – FPGA Lead

Date Posted:

Location:

McKinney, TX, USA
Position Type:
Onsite
Security Clearance:
Must obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued DoD Secret clearance. U.S. citizenship is required.

At Raytheon Technologies, the Multi-Product Power & Digital (MPD) department designs FPGAs, circuit cards, and electronics subassemblies for missiles, radars, and electronic warfare systems. The team leverages digital, analog, and power design skills to support the product lifecycle from architecture through production and sustainment. This role serves as the Field Programmable Gate Array Lead, providing technical leadership across the organization.

• Provide full lifecycle support of production quality FPGA designs for all major vendors and device families, including AMD (Xilinx), Altera, and Microchip (Microsemi) using tools such as AMD Vivado, Altera Quartus Prime Pro, or Libero.
• Generate FPGA designs for gigabit and multigigabit transceiver (MGT) serial interfaces, Radio Frequency (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 Concept of Operations (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 plans, 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 STEM degree and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience with FPGA/ASIC design (VHDL and/or Verilog) or verification (System Verilog) and with AMD (Xilinx), Altera, and/or Microchip (Microsemi) devices and tools such as AMD Vivado, Altera Quartus Prime Pro, or Libero.
• Hands‑on experience with integration and debugging 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.
• Advanced degrees in Electrical Engineering or a related STEM field are valued.
• FPGA/ASIC design experience in radar processing, image processing for visual and infrared sensors, embedded systems design using ARM, Microblaze, or NIOS processors, gigabit serial interfaces, and multigigabit transceivers.
• Constrained random verification in UVM using System Verilog and verification on emulation platforms such as Veloce.
• Experience with High Level Synthesis (HLS), vector processors and/or GPUs, and using AI to improve FPGA workflows (verification automation, log triage, regression analytics).
• Experience with AI/ML inference on FPGA (Vitis AI, FINN, custom accelerators).
• Demonstrated ability to lead successful teams and manage technical, cost, and schedule risks.
• 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 and intellectual property generation (patents & publications).
• Demonstrated mentorship of junior engineers.

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility. The salary range is 107,500 USD – 204,500 USD. Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life insurance,…