Sr. Specialist, Electrical Engineer FPGA

Job Title: Sr. Specialist Electrical Engineer - FPGA

Job Code: 37019

Job Location: Palm Bay FL

Job Schedule:9/80- employees work 9 out of 14 days totaling 80 hours worked-and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

We are looking for a talented FPGA design engineer with industry experience in wireless digital communications modems networking and/or digital signal processing (DSP). Designs develops verifies and maintains FPGA and ASIC components in accordance with engineering scientific and manufacturing requirements. Applies the appropriate standards processes procedures and tools throughout the product life cycle to support the development of new and sustainment of legacy products. May interface with customers vendors and other cross functional technical and support personnel.

Areas of desired technical experience or education include:

Modulation

Demodulation

Digital filters

Forward Error Correction (FEC)

Networking

Industry standard interfaces (e.g. 10/100/1000 Ethernet SPI UART SDRAM DDR3 JESD PCIe Ethernet).

FPGA verification through simulation and unit testing.

Essential Functions:

• Design implement and troubleshoot complex modem and/or DSP circuits in programmable logic using FPGA devices.
• Broad experience in signal processing for RF communications systems.
• Design implement and verify FPGA and ASIC solutions
• Participate in code reviews design reviews and integration activities
• Support product integration and test activities in the lab and field as needed
• Contribute to continuous improvement and innovation within the team

Qualifications:

• Must have SECRET security clearance
• Bachelors Degree (preferably in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or a related field) and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related lieu of a degree minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• 4 years of experience in FPGA / ASIC programming using VHDL
• 4 years of experience with MatLab Simulink or similar DSP modelling tools. Demonstrated ability to analyze and debug FPGA firmware and related hardware issues

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience in communication system signal processing theory and waveform design
• Working knowledge and experience in testing and debugging of Cryptographic Unit Designs
• Experience with FPGA Vendor Specific FPGA Implementation tools (Vivado/Quartus)
• Experience in laboratory debug techniques using digital scopes logic analyzers BERTS and other complex measurement devices.
• Knowledge of SATCOM architecture

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