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Job Code: 10341

Job Location: San Diego, CA

Job Description:

This self-motivated individual will participate on a team to develop FPGA Firmware in the Space & Airborne Systems (SAS) Segment of L3Harris. The SAS Segment provides critical mission solutions for space and airborne domains with defense, intelligence, and commercial applications. As an FPGA design engineer, you will be directly involved in the design, integration, and test of advanced satellite communication links, digital telemetry, signal processing, and encryption technology.

Relocation assistance may be provided to those who meet the qualifications.

Essential Functions:

The Senior Specialist FPGA Engineer will perform the following:

• Support proposal efforts in the estimation and planning of end-to-end FPGA development.

• Decompose and allocate system and box-level requirements to FPGA requirements and specifications.

• Assist in architecting solutions against requirements and implement those solutions in various FPGA technologies or platforms.

• Follow, enforce, and refine consistent firmware development processes across FPGA designs.

• Synthesize designs to targeted technologies and perform constraint driven place and route and analysis.

• Generate design review and deliverable documentation including review packages, block diagrams, interface control documents, and test plans/procedures.

• Conduct design peer reviews at various phases in the development process.

• Ensure FPGA simulations verify performance, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly

  Qualifications:

• BS Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering with 6 years relevant experience, OR, a Graduate Degree with a minimum of 4 years relevant experience, OR, In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related engineering experience.

• Active Secret Security Clearance

• Experience with VHDL, the FPGA design process, and the tools used to generate the FPGA designs

• Experience building FPGAs with difficult timing and/or difficult routing constraints

• Experience with standard lab equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and signal generators

• Must be located in, or willing to relocate to, San Diego, CA for onsite work (Relocation may be provided)

  Preferred Additional Skills:

• National Security Agency (NSA) Certification

• Fundamental knowledge of cryptographic algorithms and the ability implement algorithms in targeted FPGA devices

• Designing for space environments

• Experience with communications/DSP systems

• Experience with verifying FPGA implementations against system models in MATLAB/Simulink

• Experience with 1553B, SpaceWire, XAUI, JESD, I2C, SPI interfaces

• Experience with digital encryption schemes

• Experience with Xilinx FPGAs and Vivado tools

  In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role is $102,000.00 - $190,000.00. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.