FPGA Design Engineer; Active Secret Clearance required

Location: Reston VA and Camden NJ, fully onsite (No relocation assistance)

Number of openings: 2-4

Benefits: None/Contract

Start Date: 2 weeks after offer

Clearance Level: Active Secret

Schedule: 9/80 (80 hours over 9 days with every other Friday off)

Must
- Haves (Hard Skills):

• Experience with Xilinx FPGAs and Vivado

• Experience with Revision control system

• 4-6 years of minimum experience with VHDL experience

• Extensive FPGA design going through design and verification process

• Ethernet framing and protocol experience in FPGA (Primarily working on the Ethernet side but if they can demonstrate the PCIe that would suffice) – Looking for the actual interface experience than just the algoritms

Nice
-To
- Haves:

• Experience with mapping algorithms to architecture

• Experience in C++ (OOP)
  
  Experience with any of protocols :
  Ethernet, TCP/IP, PCIe, NVMe, USB
  
  Experience with Xilinx SoC design with SDKs and Peta Linux OS
  Experience with High-Level Synthesis (HLS) with Vivado HLX or Mentor Catapult

• Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM) – understanding of the schedule, scope, time etc. from an Agile environment

Must
- Haves (Soft Skills)

• Good written, verbal, and presentation skills

• Strong leader, able to lead design teams

• Active Secret Clearance required

Degree/Certification Requirements

• Bachelor of Science (BS)
  -Four year degree or Masters (MS) or PhD from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering/Computer Science)