FPGA Design Engineer

Leidos' Defense Systems Electrical Systems department is seeking a talented Embedded Firmware Developer to join our team. The Electrical Systems Department is a design-focused group of engineers specializing in advanced hardware-based products.

The selected candidate will be a key technical leader in a fast-paced environment through all phases of the product life cycle from concept development and detailed design through manufacturing, qualification testing, and post-delivery support. The candidate will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and testing embedded firmware and software on a variety of platforms, including FPGAs, microcontrollers, microprocessors, and mixed signal designs.

Additional skills such as communications data-link design, digital-signal processing (DSP) design, system design, experience with technical trade studies, and evaluation of technology improvements are a plus.

The ideal candidate will thrive in a learning environment that encourages leadership and technical growth.

Primary Responsibilities

• Key technical leader in a fast-paced environment.
• Responsible for all phases of the product life cycle from concept development and detailed design through manufacturing, qualification testing, and post-delivery support.
• Responsible for architecting, implementing, and testing embedded firmware and software on a variety of platforms, including FPGAs, microcontrollers, microprocessors, and mixed signal designs.
• Support resolution of technical issues that are discovered during the manufacture and test of deliverable products.
• Troubleshooting board-level issues, assessing failures for root cause, and identifying corrective actions.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent degree from an ABET-accredited institution.
• Candidate must have at least 4+ years of experience in embedded system design and test or 2+ years with MS degree.
• Understand trade-offs of embedded system targets (such as FPGA, SoC, microcontroller, RTOS, bare-metal) for developing best cost/option architectures.
• Proven experience with FPGA design and hardware description languages such as VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog.
• Experience with common communication protocols such as: UART, Ethernet, SPI, I2C, CAN bus, etc.
• Hands-on laboratory experience with instrumentation, test equipment, and debug/test methods.
• Position requires candidates to be capable of performing in a collaborative engineering environment working closely with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Candidate must be a resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville - North Alabama, AL area.
• Candidate must be a US Citizen and possess (and be able to maintain) a Final Secret Clearance or meet the eligibility to obtain (and maintain) a Secret Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Developing overall firmware/software architecture for embedded systems.
• Experience with embedded software/firmware programming in languages such as C, C++, or assembly languages.
• Embedded operating systems (Linux, VxWorks, Integrity, FreeRTOS, uC/OS-II).
• GNU/Linux and development of kernel drivers.
• Utilizing modern Xilinx FPGA and SoC families and design tools (Xilinx IP Cores, AXI4, AXI-Stream).
• Software or FPGA test and verification experience (unit testing, FPGA simulation testbenching, HWIL).
• RISC microprocessors architectures (ARM Cortex, Microblaze, PowerPC, RISC-V).
• Memory architectures, types, and caching.
• Experience with high speed interfaces (PCIe, Aurora, 100GbE, JESD204B).
• Electronics and PCBA design.