Job Description

Job Title: Sr Specialist, FPGA Digital Design Engineer

Job Code: 18626

Job Location: San Diego, CA

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

Relocation: Relocation assistance is available to qualified candidates! 

Job Description:

This self-motivated individual will participate on a team to develop 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 the design, integration, and test of advanced satellite communication links, digital telemetry, signal processing, and encryption technology!

Essential Functions:

The Senior Specialist FPGA Engineer will perform the following:

• Support proposal efforts in the estimation and planning of end-to-end FPGA development.
• Decompose and allocate system and box-level requirements to FPGA requirements and specifications.
• Assist in architecting solutions against requirements and implement those solutions in various FPGA technologies or platforms.
• Follow, enforce, and refine consistent firmware development processes across FPGA designs.
• Synthesize designs to targeted technologies and perform constraint driven place and route and analysis.
• Generate design review and deliverable documentation including review packages, block diagrams, interface control documents, and test plans/procedures.
• Conduct design peer reviews at various phases in the development process.
• Ensure FPGA simulations verify performance, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly

Qualifications:

• Bachelors of Sciense Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering with 6 years relevant experience, OR, a Graduate Degree with a minimum of 4 years relevant experience, OR, In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related engineering experience
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Secret Security Clearance 
• 4+ years experience with VHDL, the FPGA design process, and the tools used to generate the FPGA designs
• Professional experience building FPGA's with difficult timing and/or difficult routing constraints
• Experience with standard lab equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and signal generators

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Active security clearance 
• Designing for space environments
• Experience with communications/DSP systems
• Experience with verifying FPGA implementations against system models in MATLAB/Simulink
• Experience with 1553B, SpaceWire, XAUI, JESD, I2C, SPI interfaces
• Experience with Xilinx FPGAs and Vivado tools

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role is $102,000.00 - $190,000.00. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

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