Senior​/Principal FPGA Designer - Electrical Engineer, Onsite

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The Advanced RF Systems department (5365) is seeking a highly motivated FPGA design Engineer to join its team. This position focuses on providing specialized FPGA expertise to aid in the development and fielding of communications and electronic warfare systems. You will be joining a multi‑disciplinary team focused on delivering solutions to national security challenges. The ideal candidate will possess strong teamwork skills and a background in hardware design languages (HDL).

• Develop and incorporate innovative technologies including efforts to:
• Design, simulate and implement synthesizable RTL for high performance FPGAs
• Create original designs as well as modify and improve existing FPGA designs
• Analyze, design, and develop communication and electronic warfare (EW) systems, subsystems, and modules
• Work closely with both hardware and software engineers to define and integrate new FPGA designs
• Negotiate technical and programmatic requirements with customers
• Troubleshoot problems and support anomaly resolution activities
• Build and maintain relationships with customers, partners and influencers including efforts to:
• Interact with customers and stakeholders
• Represent Sandia within the technical community
• Engage with commercial or industry partners
• Mentor junior staff
• Occasionally travel to engage partners
• Work with technical teams to ensure expectations and requirements are met

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant will be required to work onsite. Relocation provided for those who qualify.

$117,500 - $235,700

• Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and five (5) years of directly relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance and SCI clearance, which may require a polygraph test

The ideal R&D S&E Electrical Engineer candidate will in addition possess the following:

• Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
• Ability to work independently and collaborate well in a multidisciplinary team of designers and test engineers.
• Outstanding verbal and written skills, including the…