FirmwareFPGA Design Engineer

Unleash your potential at Leidos where we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers success. We empower our teams contribute to our communities and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on an investment to do the right thing for our customers our people and our community. Our Mission Vision and Values guide the way we do business. The Space Division Space Sensing & Security Branch at Leidos within the spacebased product line is actively seeking a talented Firmware/FPGA Software Engineer to join a diverse team in San Diego CA to create unique solutions for complex problems.

Job Overview

This position is part of the Leidos Space Division Space Sensing & Security engineering development team. As a Firmware/FPGA Design Engineer in Leidos you will be an integral part of a team designing FPGA based solutions for spacebased products. This role offers a unique opportunity to directly impact and contribute to Leidos current/future spacebased sensor projects using your FPGA expertise the opportunity to design and develop unique FPGA design solutions for various cutting edge hardware platforms boards and FPGAs. The FPGA/Firmware design engineer will work with a multidisciplined design team (electrical engineers systems engineers scientists etc) to design develop simulate and integrate challenging and oneofa kind FPGA designs and spacebased sensor systems.

We are looking to advance your FPGA techniques to develop advanced board development FPGA technologies/techniques. In addition the FPGA/Firmware design engineer will have the opportunity to collectively design develop and decompose customer specifications. Candidates will have a strong background in FPGA algorithms and their implementation in MATLAB and FPGAs in support of a fast paced multidisciplinary design team. This role will also support the integration testing and verification of the final products.

Primary Responsibilities

The FPGA/Firmware design engineers primary job functions include designing implementing and testing firmware solutions targeting unique highspeed FPGAs and their supporting circuitry. Additional skills consist of the following:

• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary design team (electrical engineers systems engineers and scientists) to implement and integrate FPGA designs and sensor systems.
• Analyze design simulate and implement algorithms in hardware descriptor languages HDL (VHDL Verilog) based on MATLAB model(s).
• Analyze design and implement HDL test benches in hardware description languages HDL (VHDL Verilog) for code validation and validation against models.
• Analyze schematic diagrams for either custom or commercialoffthe shelf (COTS) electronic hardware involving highspeed digital and/or analog circuitry in associated FPGAcentric systems.
• Conduct experimental tests on latest FPGA and SoC evaluation boards evaluate results and then develop specifications for selecting nextgeneration components for deliverable systems.
• Work on problems of diverse scope determining methods and procedures to be used on new assignments and providing feedback and recommendations to other technical personnel.
• Develop project test plans and test procedures provide test planning support and assist in the of both lab testing and field testing.
• Develop and maintain requirements documents functional specification documents interface control documents etc.

Basic Qualifications

Were looking for FPGA/Firmware Software Engineers possessing the basic FPGA foundations such as:

• Bachelors degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 48 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with and understanding of FPGA system design and test.
• Experience with embedded Software/Firmware design.
• Experience with C/C MATLAB.
• Understanding of multiple highspeed serial communication standards and interfaces (e.g. Aurora 10Ge PCIe DDR4/3/2/1 JESD204B)
• Experienced with version control systems including SVN and Git.
• Handson laboratory experience with instrumentation test equipment and debug/test methods.
• Candidate must be a US Citizen and possess (and be able to maintain) a Final DoD Secret Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

Some of the preferred qualities were looking for in FPGA/Firmware Software Engineers are:

• Familiarity with modern Xilinx FPGA families and design tools 7series FPGAs Ultrascale Vivado Xilinx IP cores).
• Experience working with SoC designs such as Zynq and Zynq Ultrascale including architecting and interfacing with peripherals interrupts and related bus architectures.
• Experience developing and implementing FPGAoptimized versions of DSP algorithms (e.g. modulation/demodulation PLLs filters image processing).
• Experience with standard internal interfaces such as AXI4 AXI4Stream and AXI4Lite.
• Experience working with embedded operating systems (i.e. RTOS such as Green Hills).
• A Masters (MS) degree in Engineering discipline.

Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.