Principal Engineer-Digital Signal Processing FPGA Designer

About the role

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense. The Radar Digital Products Department in the Hardware Engineering Directorate at Raytheon is seeking an experienced Principal Electrical Engineer with strong Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) design skills to join our team. This engineer will primarily develop and implement digital signal processing algorithms as well as implementing FPGA based designs for interface communications, controls and/or data processing applications. The individual is expected to work in a team environment and on various projects. The individual will be required to provide development support throughout the product lifecycle, from initial concept to acceptance delivery to maintenance. This position can be for the Tewksbury, MA location or the Marlborough, MA location.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team to determine the technical approach or solution to meet system level requirement to successfully complete FPGA-based designs, on time and on budget
• May lead small teams and mentor junior engineers
• Demonstrate self-motivation, with little supervision required
• Design and deliver production quality FPGA releases from initial proof of concept up to production
• Work cooperatively with systems, hardware, software engineers, and program management to ensure product success
• Demonstrate the ability to architect FPGA-based systems to determine parts, interfaces, and Concept of Operations (CONOPS)
• Translate system level requirements into FPGA requirements
• Design and code in VHDL for reliability and maintainability
• Verify designs utilizing self-checking techniques with directed and constrained random tests, while tracking functional and code coverage
• Create complete documentation including requirements, verification plan, and user’s guides
• Support internal and external technical reviews

Qualifications

Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience
• Experience implementing DSP functions (ie. FFTs, FIR filters, etc) in FPGAs using VHDL/Verilog and VHDL simulation tools
• Experience designing filters in Matlab
• Experience with high speed interfaces such as 100 GbE, PCIE, DDR
• Experience with Timing Closure and utilizing Chipscope