Senior FPGA DSP Firmware Design Engineer
Leidos
- Saint Petersburg, FL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead a firmware design team to design, integrate and test challenging DSP FPGA designs for EW sensor systems.
- Evaluate a project’s firmware needs, designing a firmware solution to meet project needs and be able to communicate that design to the program leadership.
- Develop and implement new firmware, debug firmware to ensure it functions properly, evaluate performance and troubleshoot as needed.
- Incorporate client feedback into firmware revisions, manage budgetary and time constraints.
- Keep the firmware team up-to-date on technological developments and industry best practices.
- Lead the design and development of innovative reconfigurable Software-Defined Radio (SDR) architectures, Sensor Systems, Data Acquisition, from Air/Space to Ground deployments for government agencies
- Analyze schematic diagrams for high-speed digital and/or analog circuitry in associated FPGA-centric systems.
- Develop and maintain requirements documents, engineering drawings and configuration management policies for FPGA project hierarchy.
- Develop project test plans and test procedures, provide test planning support, and assist in the execution of both lab testing and field testing.
- Conduct experimental tests on latest FPGA and SoC evaluation boards, evaluate results, and then develop specifications for selecting next-generation components for deliverable systems.
- Some travel and work at remote sites for limited time periods may be occasionally required.
- Provide status reports to project managers and/or division production manager as required.
- Active US government Top Secret clearance.
- Ability to work full time at facility site in Arlington, VA
- Experience with FPGA Integrated Design Environment tool sets such as Xilinx Vivado and Mentor Graphics ModelSim.
- Experience with latest System on a Chip (SoC) implementations such as Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+, Intel Stratix-10, and Xilinx RFSoC.
- Proficiency in hardware descriptor languages, HDL (VHDL, Verilog) and/or MATLAB model(s).
- Ability to perform design constraints generation and verification as well as evaluate synthesis and timing performance reports.
- Hands on design and test experience with signal processing concepts such as FFTs, channelizers, digital filters, digital modulation, digital down/up-conversion, adaptive processing, etc and their implementation into new or existing modular HDL designs.
- Familiarity with common signaling standards, typical IP hard macros such as SERDES, PLLS, etc. and/or protocols such PCIe, JESD204B, LVDS, etc.
- Proficiency with hardware integration, test and debug tools (high-speed logic analyzers, scopes, spectrum analyzers, etc.)
- Bachelors in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or similar field
- Minimum of 12 years of relevant experience with at least 2 years in a technical leadership position
- Experience writing test software in C/C++ or assembly language to validate design
- Experience with high-speed (> 20GHz) design techniques
- ARM or RISC-V embedded processor based SoC design experience
- Proven experience in the military/aerospace hi reliability electronic warfare product development, especially in the area of radiation hardened, space grade FPGA circuit card design,
- Subject matter expert in high-speed digital hardware, embedded firmware & software, and miniaturized high-performance systems for EW applications.
- Expertise in optimum thermal management for FPGA circuit card design for high altitude conduction cooled applications
- Ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance