Senior FPGA Engineer with Security Clearance

Senior FPGA Engineer TEKsystems is seeking a highly skilled and innovative Senior FPGA Engineering Contractor to support one of our customers. Your work will contribute to the development of cutting-edge defense solutions across Mission Systems, leveraging your expertise in the design, implementation, verification, and integration of a wide variety of high-performance digital FPGAs. What You Will Do • Adhere to all applicable Collins Engineering Development and Quality processes, procedures, instructions and guidelines.

• Participate in Agile team meetings and planning activities, as required to support programs covered by this work plan.
• Requirements, design and verification of FPGA solutions
• Integration of developed FPGA on target hardware units
• Supporting peer reviews and certification analysis activities
• Peer reviewing FPGA development artifacts
• Management of change request and task assignments through Jira Qualifications You Must Have • Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience.
• An active U.S. government issued Final Secret Security Clearance is required
• A minimum of 3 years professional experience in FPGA development, ASIC front end, or related areas
• Proficient in VHDL/Verilog for FPGA/ASIC design and implementation.
• Experience in digital circuit architecture, design, resource tradeoffs, timing analysis, and timing closure
• Familiarity with FPGA platforms such as AMD/Xilinx, Altera, Microchip, or others, and associated toolchains (e.g., Vivado, Quartus, Libero).
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills for FPGA/ASIC systems.
• Proficiency with revision control concepts and tools (e.g., Git, Subversion) Qualifications We Prefer • Excellent communication and teamwork skills with the ability to work in a collaborative environment.
• Experience with high-speed digital interfaces and protocols (e.g., DDR, PCIe, Ethernet).
• Familiarity with best-practice chip-level verification techniques and languages (e.g., constrained random, functional coverage, System Verilog)
• Experience in Simulink and/or MATLAB for modeling and simulation of DSP systems
• Experience with algorithm development/implementation for signal processing applications such as filtering, modulation, demodulation, and spectral analysis
• Experience in ASIC / FPGA lab validation using advanced laboratory equipment
• Experience with Unix, scripting, C/C++, and/or Perl