Principal Firmware Engineer I

Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop system and/or FPGA architectures based on high level requirements
• Target device trade studies, recommendations, and selection
• Generate firmware requirements based on the system architecture
• Generate firmware documentation that describes the firmware architecture
• Design Hardware Description Language (HDL) based digital circuits that are structured and readable
• Create test benches to verify/test the HDL based design
• Create scripts to automate build, integration, and test activities
• Verify target device functionality in laboratory environment

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, or other closely related Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) field.
• Minimum 12+ years of prior relevant experience in digital hardware design and verification, or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 10+ years prior experience.
• Successfully have completed several designs for various devices and applications.
• Experience with designing communication interfaces and bus standards (e.g., SPI, I2C, PCIe, UART, or Gb Ethernet).
• Experience with test and verification approaches for designs using logic analyzers, high-speed oscilloscopes, signal generators, and/or target device debugging tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical Leadership and experience using Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Experience in cost and schedule estimation, and generating technical documentation related to contract deliverable items
• Experience in embedded processors and SoC development for FPGA devices
• Experience in FPGA design implementation with VHDL design language
• Experience in designing applications that utilized red/black separation and redundancy concepts
• Experience in OpenVPX technology including VITA standards
• Experience in MATLAB and Simulink for digital signal processing designs that use floating and fixed-point numbers
• Experience in the following Simulation Tools: Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, or Cadence
• Experience in the following Development Tools: AMD (Xilinx), Intel (Altera), Lattice, or Microsemi (Actel) FPGA
• Experience in TCL, Perl, or Python for Scripting
• Experience in FPGA Development with Linux Operating System ADA Notations