FPGA Hardware Design Engineer

Purpose and Impact

Our contract supports more than 12 efforts with varying levels of hardware and software development requirements. Our projects are focused on front end equipment configuration/maintenance, back-end repositories, front end dashboards, as well as everything in between for the full data processing thread. Our teams can range from one to two developers to a team of 12. All of our teams work right alongside our customer to discuss requirements, identify solutions, and choose the way forward for implementation. As part of an engineering office, our customer and our workforce look and plan for future expectations—continuously trying to stay ahead of the next challenge.

Essential Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test FPGA-based point solutions using industry-standard Hardware Description Language (HDL) such as VHDL, and leveraging advanced design tools.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and develop architectures.
• Implement complex digital logic, optimize designs for performance, power, and area, and verify designs using simulation tools.
• Debug and troubleshoot design issues, and document design specifications, test plans, and test results comprehensively.
• Work closely with software, hardware, and system teams to ensure seamless integration and timely delivery of FPGA-based solutions.
• This includes placing and routing the design, optimizing for performance and resource utilization, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure the design meets all specifications.
• Maintain detailed documentation, debug hardware issues, and provide ongoing support for field systems to ensure their reliable operation and performance.

Capabilities

• Assist with designing new products and processes and improving and maintaining existing products.
• Conduct design analysis on components and/or assemblies to assist in the development process by ensuring designs are cost efficient, able to be manufactured, and reliable.
• Communicate with the other engineering personnel to coordinate the interrelated design and assure project completion.
• Apply ASIC or FPGA place and route (P&R) tools with various libraries to create physical implementations of designs.
• Develop and maintain documentation for the P&R design flows.
• Assist with de-processing electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures.
• Design new products and processes and improving and maintaining existing products.
• Integrate new P&R tools, P&R tool updates, and ASIC or FPGA design libraries into Government’s computer aided design environment, documents the use of those tools and libraries.
• Perform the de-processing of electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures and develops improved procedures.
• Lead the designs of new products and processes and improve and maintain existing products.
• Provide technical leadership to less experienced engineers.
• Direct and check the work of other hardware design engineers.
• Act as internal consultant providing technical guidance on most complex projects.
• Develop novel procedures for reverse engineering of new component types.

Minimum Requirements (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• 12 years of experience as a HDE in integrated circuit or microelectronic component design or reverse engineering of the same is required.
• 10 years : Programming in VHDL
• 8 Years : Programming in Xilinx FPGAs- any combination of VIRTEX-II Pro, VIRTEX-4, VIRTEX-5 or VIRTEX
• 55 Years: Programming on Linux platforms
• 5 years: Experience with XILINX ISE, Synplify Pro, and Modeltechs Modelsim
• 8 years at 50%: Experience writing pin-level VHDL and clocking constraint files
• 1 year: Programming in one or more of the following scripting languages: PERL, sh, bash, or python
• 5 Years: Using linux or Unix for day-to-day activities.
• Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly

Minimum Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or related technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing Interface Control Documents (ICDs)
• Experience with Microsoft office Tools (word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Three or more years of experience using one or more of the following revision control applications: git, Subversion (SVN), CVS, ClearCase
• One or more years of experience generating and documenting design specifications of system-level components in a UML-based tool (e.g. Confluence/Gliffy)
• Two or more years of experience with test-driven development

Other Responsibilities

• Safety - Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment.
• Quality - Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction. It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts.
• Procedure Compliance - Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job.

Compensation Details

$200,000 - $260,000

Benefits Overview

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off and holidays
• Retail benefits (including 401(k) matching)
• Educational reimbursement
• Parental leave
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Tax-saving options
• Disability and life insurance
• Pet insurance