Title:  Specialist, FPGA Electrical Engineer - Digital Design

Job Title: Specialist, FPGA Design Engineer – Digital Hardware Design

Job Code: 23731

Job Location: Nashua, NH

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

Relocation: Relocation assistance may be provided to qualified applicants

Job Description:  

L3Harris in Nashua, NH currently has an opening for a FPGA Digital Hardware Engineer. In this role, you will support the development of Field Programmable Gate Array devices for data acquisition and telemetry products. Responsibilities will include generation of specifications, component selection, FPGA coding, simulation, and analyses, support of PWB layout, and integration & verification testing.

We look forward to reviewing your application!

Essential Functions: 

• Generate design concepts and architectures to satisfy performance requirements 
• Design sub-systems and modules, with emphasis on digital circuits and FPGA code, coordinating integration with other Engineering disciplines 
• Ensure the FPGA simulations verify performance, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly
• Support 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 modules 
• Support the bench-level system integration with hardware, software, and other FPGA designs 
• Support proposal efforts and early stages of the program to define detailed system requirements  
• Support qualification and production test in the event of test failures 
• Support customer with use and troubleshooting of fielded products
• Candidate must be a U.S. citizen and be able to obtain a Security Clearance

Qualifications:

• Bachelors of Science Degree in electrical/computer engineering and 4+ years of professional experience, OR, a Masters in electrical/computer engineering and 2+ years of professional experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
• 2+ years experience using VHDL 

• Professional experience with and understanding of AMD Xilinx FPGA architectures 

• Professional experience with SoC (RFSOC, Kintex UltraScale/UltraScale+, Virtex UltraScale/UltraScale+, Zynq UltraScale+) 
• Professional experience with Vivado

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience with AXI streaming and control buses
• Experience with basic Digital Signal Processing (DSP) concepts
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize assignments in a fast-paced work environment and to complete design/project goals with minimal oversight and direction
• Experience interfacing with ADCs and DACs and with processing of IQ data
• Ability to write TCL and Python scripts to support build scripting
• Ability to use Git for configuration management
• Ability to implement DSP filters, FFTs, and resampling modules in FPGAs