Senior Advanced FPGA Engineer

General Dynamics

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
Salary: $160,085–$173,217 / yr
Posted: 59 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About General Dynamics

General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company offering a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation, ship construction, land combat vehicles, and information technology. It serves customers in the U.S. government, allied governments, and a diverse array of commercial markets.

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The Senior Advanced FPGA Engineer joins a cross-functional team responsible for product design from system architecture and requirements allocation through product release and production of cost-sensitive secure products. The engineer will perform FPGA design, ensuring timing closure and floor planning for designs featuring embedded hard and soft processors with commercial and custom IP. Key responsibilities include managing version control and CI/CD flows for FPGA. Required technical skills include VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, and TCL, alongside experience with Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, Vivado, and Multi-Gigabit Transceivers. Candidates should possess expertise in bus protocols like Ethernet, Interlaken, Aurora, RS-232, SPI, I2C, and CAN, as well as DRAM and SRAM interfaces. This role solves technical problems within the domain of secure products for national security.

Skills

VHDL Verilog SystemVerilog TCL Vivado Petalinux Yocto Buildroot Git CI/CD Ethernet Interlaken Aurora SerialLite II RS-232 SPI I2C CAN DRAM SRAM Static Timing Analysis

What you'll do

Design cost-sensitive secure products from system architecture and requirements allocation through production.
Develop FPGA designs using VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog.
Implement designs on Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC or similar FPGA platforms.
Perform static timing analysis, timing closure, and floor planning for custom and commercial IP.
Interface designs with external memory such as DRAM and SRAM.
Integrate high-speed bus protocols including Ethernet, Interlaken, Aurora, SPI, and I2C.
Manage version control and CI/CD flows for FPGA designs using Git.
Mentor junior engineers and lead technical initiatives within the hardware team.

What we're looking for

U.S. citizenship is required.
Ability to obtain a Department of Defense TS/SCI security clearance is required.
Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
Master's degree plus a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience.
Solid experience in the principles and techniques of FPGA design.
Strong written and verbal communications skills.
Experience with VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog and TCL or similar languages (preferred).
Experience with Zynq processors using Petalinux, Yocto, or Buildroot (preferred).

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