What Your Job Will Be LikeThe Advanced RF Systems department (5365) is seeking a highly motivated FPGA design Engineer to join its team. This position focuses on providing specialized FPGA expertise to aid in the development and fielding of communications and electronic warfare systems. You will be joining a multi-disciplinary team focused on delivering solutions to national security challenges. The ideal candidate will possess strong teamwork skills and a background in hardware design languages (HDL).
On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Develop and incorporate innovative technologies including efforts to:
- Design, simulate and implement synthesizable RTL for high performance FPGAs
- Create original designs as well as modify and improve existing FPGA designs
- Analyze, design, and develop communication and electronic warfare (EW) systems, subsystems, and modules
- Work closely with both hardware and software engineers to define and integrate new FPGA designs
- Negotiate technical and programmatic requirements with customers
- Troubleshoot problems and support anomaly resolution activities
- Build and maintain relationships with customers, partners and influencers including efforts to:
- Interact with customers and stakeholders
- Represent Sandia within the technical community
- Engage with commercial or industry partners
- Mentor junior staff
- Occasionally travel to engage partners
- Work with technical teams to ensure expectations and requirements are met
Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant will be required to work onsite. Relocation provided for those who qualify.
Salary Range$117,500 - $235,700
*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- A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and five (5) years of directly relevant experience, 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 and SCI clearance, which may require a polygraph test
Qualifications We DesireThe ideal R&D S&E Electrical Engineer candidate 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:
- FPGA programming and verification experience
- Deep fluency with Hardware Design Languages (Verilog, VHDL, etc.)
- 8 plus years of related experience in the following areas:
- Development and verification of custom RTL for FPGA design (power and area optimized)
- Timing Closure & Analysis
- Use of High-Speed Interfaces & Protocols
- Development and use of testbench code for firmware validation
- Troubleshooting of firmware using simulation software
- Use of Microsemi Libero and/or Xilinx Vivado
- Embedded system design
- Experienced in cross-functional collaboration, including board designers, systems engineers, and software teams
- Experienced in technical mentorship
- Current DOE Q clearance
- Possess a strong dedication to positive teaming dynamic, strong written and verbal skills, detail oriented with a keen focus on customer service
About Our TeamAs part of the Intelligent RF Communications group, we play a pivotal role in advancing the Nation's technological superiority. Our team is dedicated to delivering capabilities that ensure RF and spectral dominance, highly reliable communications, and groundbreaking advancements that fortify our future strength. We thrive in a dynamic environment where cross-department collaboration is key, enabling us to provide integrated engineering solutions that span from core research to prototype development and high-end, fielded products.
In the Advanced RF Systems department (5365), we tackle pressing national security challenges by developing innovative solutions in wireless communication and electronic warfare. Our customers include a variety of government organizations including the U.S Armed Forces, the Intelligence Community, and those conducting special operations missions. Our staff members have a diverse skills set including microwave circuit design, antenna design, signal analysis, digital signal processing, and embedded software.
We partner across the laboratory and the group to bring on other critical skill sets to our multi-disciplinary team to include computer scientists, systems engineers, and cyber engineers. Our design challenges include system development (designing scalable systems, systems integration into host platforms, etc), understanding complex adversary systems and associated vulnerabilities, and signal analysis and generation of RF low probably of detect waveforms.
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.
