Senior Specialist, Electrical Engineering (FPGA Design ...

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Job Title: Senior Specialist, Electrical Engineering (FPGA Digital Design Engineer) Job Code: 32307 Job Location: Fort Wayne, IN Job Schedule: 9/80 (Every other Friday off) Relocation: Relocation assistance is available to qualified applicants Job Description: This self-motivated individual will be part of a team developing FPGA Firmware in the Space & Airborne Systems (SAS) Segment of L3Harris. The SAS Segment provides critical mission solutions for space and airborne domains with defense, intelligence, and commercial applications. As an FPGA design engineer, you will be directly involved in one or more of the areas of design, integration, and test of advanced satellite communication links, digital telemetry, signal processing, and/or encryption technology. We look forward to reviewing your application Essential Functions: The Senior Specialist FPGA Engineer will perform the following: u2022 Support proposal efforts in the estimation and planning of end-to-end FPGA development. u2022 Decompose and allocate system and box-level requirements to FPGA requirements and specifications. u2022 Architect solutions against requirements and implement those solutions in various FPGA technologies or platforms. u2022 Design Med/High Complexity Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) starting from System De-composition and completing through System Integration and Test u2022 Follow, enforce, and refine consistent firmware development processes across FPGA designs. u2022 Synthesize designs to targeted technologies and perform constraint driven place and route and analysis. u2022 Generate design review and deliverable documentation including review packages, block diagrams, interface control documents, and test plans/procedures. u2022 Conduct design peer reviews at various phases in the development process. u2022 Ensure FPGA simulations verify performance, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly. u2022 Generate verification plans and procedures to validate hardware. u2022 Perform hardware testing and debug. Qualifications: u2022 Bachelors of Science Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering with 6 years' professional experience or a Graduate degree and a minimum of 4 years' relevant professional experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years' of prior related experience u2022 6+ years experience using VHDL/Verilog u2022 6+ years experience with and understanding of AMD Xilinx FPGA architectures u2022 3+ Years of professional experience with Xilinx Vivado u2022 3+ years experience performing timing closure, optimizing FPGA resource utilization u2022 3+ years experience debugging down to the hardware level, using Signal Generators, Logic Analyzers, Digital Oscilloscopes and Embedded FPGA Debugging tools u2022 Desire and demonstrated ability to lead design teams of varying sizes u2022 Demonstrated ability to create schedules and on-time delivery as a team lead and individual contributor. u2022 Ability to obtain Secret Clearance Preferred Additional Skills: u2022 FPGA development and Verification Vendor tool suites: Xilinx ISE, Xilinx Vivado, Xilinx Vitis, Microchip Libero, Mentor Graphics ModelSim/Questa, Synopsis Synplicity u2022 Version Control tools such as GIT, SVN, CVS. u2022 Experience with advanced verification environments such as UVM & OVM u2022 Experience using System Verilog for verification u2022 Build FPGAs with difficult timing and/or difficult routing constraints u2022 Develop FPGA requirements and specifications u2022 FPGA Device Selection and supporting the Pinout on a new CCA Design u2022 High speed memory interfaces and/or high speed SERDES interfaces u2022 Analog to Digital (AD) and Digital to Analog (DA) interfaces u2022 Experience with AXI streaming and control buses u2022 Possess the ability to interface with Hardware, Software, and Systems Engineering u2022 Self-motivated individual with the ability to work and communicate effectively within a development group u2022 Bring-up of advanced FPGA products such as SoC, MPSoC, RFSoC, ACAP, etc. u2022 Digital Circuit Card Design: Schematic Entry, PCB/PWB Layout/Route, Signal Integrity Analysis. 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Created: 2026-01-29