Senior Principal FPGA Design Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Washington.

📋 Description

• Design intricate FPGA systems.

• Establish and document requirements for new firmware designs utilizing enterprise tools such as Jama.

• Develop conceptual designs that encompass block-level architecture, clock and reset distribution strategies, and bandwidth/latency analyses.

• Generate comprehensive FPGA firmware designs at the register-transfer level using VHDL.

• Execute RTL synthesis and implementation with FPGA tools like Vivado.

• Assist in the integration of FPGA firmware at the board level.

• Produce FPGA verification artifacts employing VHDL, SystemVerilog, and UVM.

• Showcase FPGA firmware designs to certification authorities.

• Supervise initiatives and mentor less experienced designers.

• Acquire knowledge regarding aircraft vision systems, including video display and camera technologies.

• Cultivate project management abilities through project planning, schedule creation, and status updates.

• Contribute throughout the lifecycle, from defining requirements to final product certification.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related discipline.

• Extensive FPGA development and verification expertise.

• Experience in FPGA design for video or image processing applications.

• Familiarity with Mentor Graphics Questasim is preferred.

• Proficient in VHDL is preferred.

• Experience with SystemVerilog and UVM for FPGA verification is preferred.

• Background in Linux/Unix environments is preferred.

• Exceptional hands-on laboratory skills for testing and validating FPGA designs in hardware.

• Knowledge of various test equipment.

• Aerospace experience is preferred.

• Familiarity with aerospace certification processes, particularly RTCA DO-254, is highly desirable.

• U.S. citizenship is required.

• Ability to access information related to the applicable program/contract as a U.S. citizen.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.

• 401(k) plan featuring employer matching contributions and a separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option.

• Tuition reimbursement program.

• Student Loan Repayment Program.

• Life insurance and disability coverage.

• Optional pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal services, and ID theft protection.

• Benefits for birth, adoption, and parental leave.

• Ovia Health services for fertility and family planning.

• Adoption Assistance.

• Autism Benefit.

• Employee Assistance Plan with up to 10 complimentary counseling sessions.

• Healthy You Incentives wellness rewards program.

• Doctor on Demand virtual consultations.

• Bright Horizons services for child and elder care.

• Teladoc Medical Experts second opinion program.

• Flexible work schedules.

• Employee Scholar Program.

• Paid time off and holidays.

• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be available, depending on position level and collective-bargaining coverage.