FPGA Developer

About the role

As a FPGA Developer, you will combine your technical skills with big-picture thinking to deliver engineering solutions that support national defense missions. You will design, implement, and test FPGA-based processing architectures, enhance these systems with advanced technology solutions, and guide a cross-disciplinary team in digital design, verification, and system integration.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test FPGA-based processing architectures
• Enhance systems with advanced technology solutions meeting demanding space and mission requirements
• Collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team to integrate FPGA designs into spacecraft subsystems
• Translate system-level requirements into robust hardware implementations enabling reliable on-orbit performance

Requirements

• Experience using Vivado for embedded system design
• Experience with Digital Signal Processing mathematics and implementing algorithms in synthesizable HDL
• Experience with scientific analysis software such as MATLAB
• Experience with benchtop equipment including oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, arbitrary waveform generators, and vector signal generators
• Knowledge of commercial RF and digital component and assembly distributors for rapid prototyping
• Knowledge of wideband RF signal acquisition and generation, as well as FPGA development processes
• Knowledge of RF signal propagation chain configurations
• Secret clearance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with 7+ years of experience in digital design through HDL and schematic layout
• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with 5+ years of experience in digital design through HDL and schematic layout

Skills

• Experience with FPGA development tools such as AMD Vitis or Intel Quartus
• Experience with EDA tools for HDL and RTL simulation such as ModelSim, Questa, Xcelium, VCS, or Aldec
• Knowledge of satellite requirements and design
• Knowledge of space-specific requirements, including system hardening
• Knowledge of RADAR and Electronic Attack (EA) and Electronic Support (ES) concepts
• Experience with embedded Linux and RTOS development, including U-Boot, Yocto, BitBake, OpenEmbedded, or device tree components

Benefits

• Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
• Paid leave
• Professional development
• Tuition assistance
• Work-life programs
• Dependent care
• Recognition awards program

Pay

$99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (annualized USD)

Schedule

Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.