Specialist, Field-Programmable Gate Array Design Engineer

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Job Title: Specialist, Field‑Programmable Gate Array Design Engineer

Job Code: 33800

Job Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

Job Schedule: 9/80 (Every other Friday off!)

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Harris is seeking a skilled FPGA design engineer with a background in wireless digital communications, modems, networking, and/or digital signal processing (DSP). We develop advanced wireless digital communication systems and electronic warfare systems. Our development efforts span the entire lifecycle, including proposals, requirement definition, coding, simulation, synthesis, place and route, verification testing, and system support. We are looking for an engineer who can effectively collaborate with a team of talented engineers as well as work independently.

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Harris values your work‑life balance so you can enjoy these opportunities.

• Participate in the design and implementation of modulation, demodulation, digital filters, and Forward Error Correction (FEC) for communication systems.
• Assist in the development of electronic warfare and networking systems.
• Work with industry‑standard interfaces (e.g. 10/100/1000 Ethernet, SPI, UART, SDRAM, DDR3, JESD, PCIe, Ethernet).
• Conduct FPGA verification through simulation and unit testing.
• Work within a team to complete project tasks.
• Must be able to obtain a US security clearance.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, and 4 years of related experience.
• Ability to obtain Secret security clearance.

• 3+ years FPGA design experience.
• Experience in VHDL or Verilog development languages.
• Familiarity with implementing modem and/or DSP circuits in programmable logic using FPGA devices.
• Experience with simulation, synthesis, and placement software tools such as Model Sim, Synplicity, Xilinx Vivado / ISE, and/or Altera Quartus development tool sets.
• Basic understanding of timing closure in FPGAs.
• Some experience in laboratory debug techniques using digital scopes, logic analyzers, BERTS, and other measurement devices.
• Knowledge of FPGA design using high‑speed serial interfaces.
• Familiarity with code revision management tools such as Git or Clearcase.
• Basic programming knowledge in C/C++/C# and Matlab/Simulink.
• Active Secret Clearance.

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