Scientist, FPGA Design Engineer

Company: L3Harris
Location: Nashua
Posted on: September 18, 2022

Job Description:

Description: Job Title: Scientist, FPGA Design EngineerJob Code: SAS20222007-87170Job Location: Nashua, NH Job Description:

• Provide Subject Matter Expertise for EW and SIGINT technology that can be utilized cross-functionally.
• Develop Signal Processing Architectures targeting single chip and distributed chip low latency signal classification and countermeasures.
• Architect High Complexity solutions targeting FPGAs against requirements and implement those solutions in FPGA platforms.
• Work with a variety of firmware, software, and systems development teams, assuring requirements are verified in a consistent fashion prior to firmware delivery to Integration.
• Decompose and allocate system and box-level requirements to FPGA implementation specifications.
• Map FPGA simulation work products to system-level requirements and capabilities
• Refine and enforce consistent firmware development processes across FPGA designs.
• Lead team of engineers generating the FPGA design solutions, assuring adherence to a formal FPGA Development Process.
• Ensure the FPGA simulations verify performance, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly.
• Work cross-functionally to adopt a common development process, including the development and documentation of Requirements and Design Concept through Test Readiness review, prior to Integration. Qualifications:
• System level knowledge of Electronic Warfare technology and SIGINT with a concentration in FPGA Firmware Architecture development and support.
• Experience and understanding of RF concepts and constraints including analog/digital conversion, channel bandwidth, resolution BW, noise, gain, and power.
• Experience targeting VPX architectures and familiarity with the newly released SOSA standards.
• Experience with High Complexity FPGA Digital Design Techniques and Devices.
• Experience debugging down to the hardware level & experience using Signal Generators, Logic Analyzers, Digital Oscilloscopes and Embedded FPGA Debugging tools.
• Bachelors Degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience, or Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. Preferred Additional Skills
• Active Secret Clearance ir Active TS/SCI Clearance.
• MATLAB signal processing and simulation
• FPGA: Mentor Graphics HDL Designer, Mentor Graphics ModelSim/Questa, Synopsis Synplicity, Xilinx ISE, Xilinx Vivado, Altera Quartus.
• FPGA: UVM, OVM, SystemVerilog, SystemC.
• FPGA: Bring-up of advanced FPGA products like SoC, MPSoC, RFSoC, ACAP, etc.
• General: Microsoft Office, DOORs (Requirement Specification and Tractability), Revision Control (PTC Integrity, CVS, SVN, GIT, etc), JIRA, Confluence, Linux.
• Programming in C, C++, Python, TCL.
• Working knowledge of Circuit Card design: Schematic Entry, PCB/PWB Layout/Route.
• MSEE or PhD, Computer Engineering or related field. L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.

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