Senior Specialist, Electrical Engineering - FPGA Engineer

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Job Title: Senior Specialist, FPGA Engineer

Job Code: 44202

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off 

Job Description:

L3Harris Airborne Solutions in Palm Bay, FL has an immediate need for highly motivated FPGA design engineer.  In this role you will develop, simulate, and integrate in lab highly specialized firmware designs targeting flight avionics systems.  Responsibilities include generation of firmware derived requirements, architecture of digital solutions to meet said requirements and formal test / lab verification of the functional system.  The qualified candidate can work semi-autonomously as a lead designer, potentially driving a small team of firmware engineers through coding, simulation, code analysis, and circuit card design support. 

Essential Functions:

Decompose and allocate system and box-level requirements to FPGA specifications.Architect solutions targeting FPGAs against requirements and implement those solutions on FPGA platforms.Map FPGA simulation work products to system-level requirements and capabilitiesReview product specifications, and generate system and module-level block diagrams, flow diagrams, and design conceptsRefine and enforce consistent firmware development processes across FPGA designs.Lead teams of engineers generating FPGA design solutions.Ensure the FPGA simulations verify performance, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly.Lead the full life cycle development and integration of VHDL into different families of FPGAs.Experience coding in VHDL and modeling algorithms, simulating and integrating multiple FPGA-based modulesLead the bench-level system integration with hardware, software, and other FPGA designsSupport proposal efforts and early stages of the program to define detailed system requirementsSupport the planning and execution of project plans, design reviews and production release of modified or new product documentationSupport qualification and production test in the event of test failuresSupport customer with use and troubleshooting of fielded productsThorough understanding of version control best practices and tools (subversion, git, etc) to closely track changes to the FPGA baseline.Provide mentoring to younger engineersAbility to obtain a US Government Security Clearance. 

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. 

Preferred Additional Skills:

An active Secret security clearanceExperience with and understanding of Altera or Xilinx FPGA architecturesExperience with high-speed serial protocols (PCI Express, SRIO, Ethernet)Experience designing 10G Ethernet based Network Interface DesignsExperience in network protocols including IPv6 and UDPExperience with SoC (Kintex UltraScale/UltraScale+, Virtex UltraScale/UltraScale+, Zynq UltraScale)Experience with VHDLExperience with control protocols such I2C, SPI, RS-232/422, and DDR3 / DDR4.Experience with complex block and top-level simulations of FPGA designs requiring high level transaction-based models.Ability to multi-task and prioritize assignments in a fast-paced work environment and to complete design/project goals with minimal oversight and direction.FPGA Verification using Siemens toolset 

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