Digital Hardware/FPGA Engineer

Company: Leonardo DRS
Location: Germantown
Posted on: January 27, 2023

Job Description:

Job ID:105912The Leonardo DRS Airborne and Intelligence Systems business is a global leader and strategic partner committed to delivering world-class, full life-cycle defense and intelligence products that protect the security of our nation and our allies.From air combat training to state-of-the-art electronic warfare systems, our technology is deployed by virtually all U.S. military and government agencies around the world.Job SummaryWe're looking for aDigital Hardware/Firmware/FPGA Engineerto join ourSignal Solutionsteam inGermantown, MD. In this role, you'll design, develop, analyze, verify, and validate digital electronic products and subsystems covering a wide range of applications including signal and radar processing, network communications, and electronic warfare. Job Responsibilities

• FPGA/PLD digital logic design, System Simulation, Synthesis, Resource and Power Utilization analysis, Place and Route, Timing analysis, Verification, and Integration activities
• Design, build, and test of cutting-edgedevices containing both digital and optical hardware
• Troubleshoot and diagnose malfunctions in existing products or systems and makes modifications as needed
• Compile and evaluate design and test data
• Analyze, develop and recommend design approaches
• Provide regular reporting of progress and status
• Support the program design to cost and design for manufacture requirements
• Develop prototypes to retire key development risks as directed
• Support, communicate, reinforce and defend the mission, values and culture of the organization
• May be responsible for some aspects of requirement decomposition/definition/clarification, system design, system verification, associated documentation for digital electronics development, design revision control, and archival of design files
• May participate in the generation of test and verification plans establishing functional criteria to ensure requirements are correctly implemented
• May participate in the execution of verification plans and assist in development unit and system testingQualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related area required (or equivalent experience)
  • Firmware development
    • Tools/Skills proficiencies:
      • VHDL, with some familiarity with Verilog and SystemVerilog
      • Various scripting languages and approaches such as tcl, bash, perl, etc.
      • Mentor Graphics Questa or ModelSim simulation/verification tools, with some familiarity with constrained random verification approaches
      • Subversion, CVS, GIT, or similar
      • Xilinx Vivado, Intel Questa, Microsemi Libero SoC, etc.Additional Preferred Experience
        • Digital Hardware design
          • Tools/Skills proficiencies:
          • Schematic capture and providing input to PWB/PCB design through layout, fabrication and assembly
          • Some knowledge of high speed serial and parallel interfaces such as 40GBASE-KR4, PCIe, DDR4, USB, SERDES, etc.
          • Some knowledge of lab practices and test using high speed measurement instruments such as VNAs, oscilloscopes, BERTs and TDR/TDTLeonardo DRS, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates are equal opportunity employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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