Senior Specialist, FPGA Digital Design Electrical Engineer

L3Harris

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Work type: On-site
Location: Bristol, PA
Salary: $92,500–$171,500 / yr
Posted: 13 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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L3Harris Technologies is a US aerospace and defense technology company providing space and airborne systems, communications, electronic warfare, and missile propulsion solutions for government and commercial customers.

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TL;DR · Senior Specialist, FPGA Digital Design Electrical Engineer

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Senior Specialist, FPGA Digital Design Electrical Engineer joins a collaborative engineering organization to support the development of FPGA firmware for airborne telemetry, radio frequency, secure communications, and embedded flight-safety systems. The role involves translating system-level requirements into FPGA architectures and VHDL implementations for ruggedized mission-critical hardware. Key responsibilities include designing, implementing, and verifying digital signal processing functions such as filtering, mixing, and error-correction. The engineer will manage synthesis, timing closure, and resource efficiency while integrating designs onto circuit card assemblies. Required skills include VHDL development, FPGA toolchains like Vivado, Quartus, or Libero, and experience with AMD, Intel, or Microchip platforms. The work focuses on high-reliability solutions for aerospace and defense platforms, requiring proficiency in digital circuit design, schematic generation, and verification against MATLAB or Simulink models.

Skills

FPGA VHDL Digital Signal Processing Vivado Quartus Libero MATLAB Simulink AMD (Xilinx Intel (Altera Microchip (Microsemi Circuit Design Schematic Generation PWB Layout Oscilloscope Logic Analyzer Signal Generator RF Encryption

What you'll do

Translate system and circuit-card-level requirements into FPGA specifications and architectures.
Implement FPGA designs in VHDL while ensuring timing closure and resource efficiency.
Verify FPGA functionality through simulation and integration on targeted circuit card assemblies.
Develop digital signal processing and communication functions like filtering, mixing, and encoding.
Generate technical documentation including design review materials, block diagrams, and test plans.
Prepare FPGA designs for production through qualification, environmental testing, and performance validation.
Support estimation, planning, and scheduling of FPGA development activities across the product lifecycle.

What we're looking for

Ability to obtain and maintain a United States Secret security clearance.
Bachelor’s degree with 6 years of engineering experience, a graduate degree with 4 years, or 10 years of experience without a degree.
Minimum four years of experience with VHDL development, FPGA design methodologies, and FPGA toolchains (preferred).
Experience implementing FPGA designs with demanding timing, routing, or resource constraints (preferred).
Experience integrating FPGA designs onto circuit card assemblies using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and signal generators (preferred).
Experience with digital circuit design, schematic generation, and PWB layout (preferred).
Experience with major FPGA vendor platforms such as AMD, Intel, or Microchip (preferred).
U.S. citizens.

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