Job Description
Electronic Combat Solutions Hardware Engineering Group is looking for a Senior Principal FPGA Design Engineer to support FPGA designs through all phases of development. The ideal candidate is expected to perform activities including assisting in requirements generation and design architecture, ownership of RTL coding, synthesis, place and route, timing closure, basic test bench development, lab testing and debug, and product support.
Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed full-time on site.
**Please note that pursuant to a government contract, along with the ability to obtain a minimum of Secret Clearance**
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Required Skills and Education
• 8+ years of relevant experience with bachelor's degree (less years with advanced degree)
• Current Security Clearance (Secret), or eligible to obtain one
• Significant experience in FPGA (preferred) or ASIC Design / Development
• VHDL (preferred) or Verilog HDL coding
• Familiarity with Xilinx Vivado or Intel/Altera Quartus
• Digital simulation using Modelsim/Questa
• Significant experience with static timing analysis and clock domain crossing techniques
• Experience with high speed interfaces like SERDES, PCIe, DDR2/3/4, LVDS
• Familiarity with revision control (GIT, CVS, Clearcase, Subversion, etc.)
• Some Experience generating scripts (Perl, Tcl, Python, shell, etc.)
• Strong debug and problem solving skills
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Self-starter and a good team player
• Ability to mentor and willingness to be mentored
Preferred Skills and Education
• Ability to distill higher level requirements into micro-architecture
• Experience modifying and enhancing legacy FPGA designs
• Experience in leading a design team a plus
• Experience in hardware design and hands-on lab debug
• Experience working with FPGA design verification teams
• Some experience with data conversion techniques (ADC/DAC) a plus
