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Employment type: Full Time W-2 or Contract
Rate: open to Negotiation
Benefits: including Health, Dental Vision, PTO, Holidays, 401K,etcSenior FPGA Engineer
Location: Tucson, AZ
Schedule: On-Site
Clearance: Secret clearance or higher required prior to start
Role Summary Seeking a senior-level FPGA Engineer to support the design, development, verification, and integration of production-quality FPGA solutions for advanced defense systems. This role covers the full FPGA lifecycle from requirements and architecture through VHDL coding, simulation, place-and-route, integration, debug, and production release support.
Key Responsibilities - Develop and verify FPGA designs using VHDL.
- Support FPGA architectures for system-level applications.
- Translate system-level requirements into FPGA requirements.
- Perform simulation, synthesis, place-and-route, timing closure, integration, and debug.
- Work with circuit card designers and systems engineers to define interfaces and design requirements.
- Support FPGA designs involving RF/EO DSP, controls, data links, embedded processing, processor interfaces, and gigabit serial interfaces.
- Create technical documentation, including requirements, verification plans, and user guides.
- Support internal and external technical reviews as needed.
Required Skills - 8+ years of FPGA engineering experience.
- VHDL coding and digital design experience.
- Experience with Xilinx, Altera, or Microsemi FPGA devices and tool flows.
- Hands-on FPGA integration and debug experience.
- Experience delivering FPGA solutions into system-level applications.
- Ability to support FPGA work from requirements definition through integration and test.
- Secret clearance or higher required prior to start.
Preferred Skills - Radar or image processing experience.
- Embedded systems experience using ARM, MicroBlaze, or Nios processors.
- Experience with gigabit serial interfaces or multi-gigabit transceivers.
- SystemVerilog / UVM verification experience.
- Experience with emulation platforms such as Veloce.
- Strong technical documentation and review support experience.
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