Senior FPGA Engineer with Security Clearance
About the role
Radiance Technologies, a rapidly growing employee-owned company, is seeking a talented FPGA Engineer to join our Advanced Technology Development Operation (ATDO). ATDO focuses on the development and analysis of anti-tamper and protective technology capabilities and products, advancing the state-of-the-art in areas such as secure microelectronics packaging and system-level security for weapons systems.
Responsibilities
- Turn initial custom hardware prototype designs into deployable solutions
- Work as part of a small, fast-paced, and mission-driven team
- Design, simulate, synthesize, close, and validate IP
- Embedded debugging and emulation
- Advanced level C programming
- FPGA: VHDL and/or Verilog
Requirements
- B.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or relevant technical field with 10+ years direct experience developing embedded systems (Advanced STEM degrees will substitute for experience on a year-for-year basis)
- Active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain a DoD security clearance
- Understanding of schematics, ability to perform lab tests on designs and components, experience with custom electronics turn-up, and troubleshooting and improving new and existing embedded designs
- Design, simulation, synthesis, closure and validation of IP
- Embedded Debugging / Emulation
- Advanced level C programmer
- FPGA: VHDL and/or Verilog
Desirable Qualifications / Skills
- Advanced degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or relevant technical field with 15+ years of relevant work experience
- Active Top Secret clearance
- Demonstrated expertise as technical lead/architect for embedded projects - conceptualizing solutions to open-ended problems, deriving implementable requirements, and conveying design intent to a broader team
- Entrepreneurial mindset - propose new ideas, processes, tools, and solutions
- Excel at verbal and written communication with customers and team members by providing reports, technical documentation, and guidance as well as participation in the systems engineering process including architecture selection
- Microcode
- Secure Boot
- Real-time systems experience
- Hardware driver creation
- Design, simulation, synthesis, and test of IP for ASIC and FPGA projects
- Cryptographic algorithm implementation
- Development of cryptographic primitives beyond encryption
- Advanced knowledge of Root of Security / Secure Processors. Hardware Security experience - tamper vulnerability research including hardware exploitation, side-channel attacks, fault-injection attacks, and nation-state level reverse engineering threat vectors
- Assisting ATDO in capturing additional business through customer interactions, proposal development, and authoring enhanced whitepapers
- Authoring of systems development plans
- Proficiency and willingness to mentor junior technical personnel
Benefits
Security Clearance: Applicants selected may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Pay
Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
Schedule
Full-time position.
Qualifications
Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.