FPGA DSP Firmware Design Engineer
Leidos
- Cardiff By The Sea, CA
- $65,000-117,500 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Analyze, design, simulate, and implement algorithms in hardware descriptor languages, HDL (VHDL, Verilog), based on customer requirements and/or MATLAB model(s).
- Collaborate with a multi-disciplined design team (electrical engineers, systems engineers and scientists) to design and integrate challenging DSP FPGA designs and RF sensor systems.
- Collaborate with a multi-disciplined design team to design and integrate DSP applications for latest System on a Chip (SoC) implementations such as Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+, Intel Stratix-10, and Xilinx RFSoC.
- Analyze, design, and implement HDL test benches in hardware description languages, HDL (VHDL, Verilog), for code validation and validation against models.
- Perform design constraints generation and verification as well as evaluate synthesis and timing performance reports.
- Implement and validate signal processing concepts such as FFTs, channelizers, digital filters, digital modulation, digital down/up-conversion, adaptive processing, etc. into either new or existing modular HDL designs.
- Analyze, design, simulate, and implement designs which interface to common signaling standards, typical IP hard macros such as SERDES, PLLS, etc. and/or protocols such PCIe, JESD204B, LVDS, etc.
- Analyze schematic diagrams for either custom or commercial-off-the shelf (COTS) electronic hardware involving high-speed digital and/or analog circuitry in associated FPGA-centric systems.
- Develop and maintain requirements documents, functional specification documents, interface control documents, etc.
- Generate and maintain 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.
- Provide occasional technical support and/or field support planning, and other field support in general if needed.
- Conduct experimental tests on latest FPGA and SoC evaluation boards, evaluate results, and then develop specifications for selecting next-generation components for deliverable systems.
- Work on problems of diverse scope, determining methods and procedures to be used on new assignments, and providing feedback and recommendations to other technical personnel.
- Interact with outside customers, suppliers, and functional peer groups.
- 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.
- BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or related degree
- Minimum of 2+ years of relevant experience
- Ability to be granted a security clearance
- Experience with at least one FPGA Integrated Design Environment tool set such as Xilinx Vivado and Mentor Graphics ModelSim.
- Strong debug and problem solving skills
- Experience in HDL Design / Development, including:
- Ability to distill higher level requirements into micro-architecture
- VHDL, Verilog HDL coding
- Digital simulation using Modelsim/Questa or similar
- Experience with designer-level test bench (VHDL or SystemVerilog)
- Familiarity with revision control (git, cvs, clearcase, etc.)
- Working knowledge of internal logic analyzer (ILA/chipscope/signaltap)
- Experience and willingness for lab testing
- Masters degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
- Experience with DSP fundamentals and FPGA implementation
- Experience with Matlab/Simulink
- Experience with microchip EDA tools and flows (Synopsys, Cadence, etc.)
- Experience in leading a design team
- Experience in hardware design and hands-on lab debug
- Experience with SystemVerilog/UVM
- Experience with generating scripts (Perl, Tcl, Python, etc.)
- Working knowledge of C/C++
- Experience with interfaces: ADC/DACs, SerDes, PCIe, JTAG, DDRx
- Existing Secret (or above) Clearance