What Your Job Will Be LikeWe are seeking a FPGA Design Engineer to provide technical expertise for remote sensing and satellite systems. The successful applicant will have experience with digital designs for embedded applications, for example: processor board design (both CPUs and/or GPUs); FPGA design and HDL (specifically VHDL) experience; high-speed network and interface electronics; and high-speed analog to digital interfaces.
We are seeking a FPGA Design Engineer to provide technical expertise for remote sensing and satellite systems. The successful applicant will have experience with digital designs for embedded applications, for example: processor board design (both CPUs and/or GPUs); FPGA design and HDL (specifically VHDL) experience; high-speed network and interface electronics; and high-speed analog to digital interfaces.
Due to the nature of the job the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.
Salary Range$102,400 - $199,700
*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.
Qualifications We Require- Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance
Qualifications We DesireThe ideal R&D S&E Electrical Engineering candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:
- Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
- Ability to work independently and collaborate well in a multidisciplinary team of designers and test engineers.
- Outstanding verbal and written skills, including the ability to develop and present briefings that are clear and compelling
Also, for this posting we are seeking individuals with the following experience:
- Proven ability to be self-motivated and work independently as well as in a multi-disciplinary team environment, building consensus and resolving issues
- Experience in the design, development, test, and implementation of electrical systems, especially high-speed digital electronics
- Experience in the development of FPGAs and SoCs using toolsets (e.g. Xilinx Vitis and Vivado toolset, Microchip Libero SoC design suite)
- Experience in HDL verification techniques (e.g. HDL testbenches)
- Experience in test driven development practices (e.g. CI/CD)
- Proficiency with space radiation effects in digital electronics (e.g. single event effects)
- Leadership experience in a technically relevant project
- Strong organization and planning skills and ability tackle more than one assignment at a time.
- Desire to learn new skills as required and develop expertise in areas that may be unfamiliar
- Active Q and TS//SCI clearances
About Our TeamThe Monitoring Systems & Technology Center (6700) has researched and developed new monitoring systems and technologies for over half a century. Building on that legacy, today we support national security missions involving nuclear proliferation detection, treaty monitoring, arms control, and various needs within the national security communities.
The Real-Time Computing Research Department (6776) supports Center 6700 missions of Space-based Remote Sensing and Nuclear Proliferation Detection. The department develops advanced algorithms and models for remote sensing applications in the National Security mission space. Our group investigates novel, real-time, and edge computing techniques for detection & classification. The core capabilities of the department are optimized digital processing, real-time decision algorithms including automatic target recognition and machine learning, high performance processing in resource constrained deployments, and embedded system performance modeling.
We support developing state of the art technologies for remote sensing in the areas of edge-deployed high-performance computing, digital signal processing, remote distributed data processing architectures, rapid high consequence technology insertions for remote sensing applications, and remote sensing system engineering.
Posting DurationThis posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of three (3) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.
