$88,500 – $135,000
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What this role is
This role involves designing and deploying firmware for space-based FPGA and embedded systems, working on high-reliability electronics for aerospace applications. It suits engineers with hardware description language experience who want to specialize in space technology and radiation-hardened system design.
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What they ask for
Required
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computer science
- 2 years of professional experience designing with VHDL or Verilog
- Ability to obtain and maintain a US security clearance
- U.S. citizenship
Nice to have
- Experience with Xilinx devices (Zynq, Virtex, Kintex)
- Experience with Microchip devices (RTAX, ProASIC, RTG4)
- Aerospace or space application firmware development
- Knowledge of serial communication protocols
- Multi-clock-domain digital design experience
- Experience with in-system debuggers and logic analyzers
- FPGA physical constraint design and management
- Xilinx SoC device experience
- FPGA floor planning
- Xilinx System Generator
- Verification techniques including linting and constrained random testing
- RTOS and bare-metal firmware knowledge
- Hardware accelerators and space communication protocols
- Synopsys or Aldec synthesis and simulation tools