Fpga Design Engineer

Boeing Boeing · Aerospace · Huntsville, AL

FPGA Design Engineer for Boeing Defense, Space & Security in Huntsville, AL, focusing on developing, debugging, and integrating processor subsystem features and interfaces in FPGA hardware for advanced processors. The role supports domains like flight command and control, air traffic control, and homeland defense, requiring experience with FPGA design tools, HDL, and potentially digital signal processing.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop FPGA requirements, FPGA code of logic design. Generate self-checking test bench, unit test, synthesis, timing analysis, Built-In-Test (BIT) and support of debug and system integration activities.
  2. Develop, debug, and integrate processor subsystem features and interfaces in FPGA hardware for advanced processors.
  3. Develop high-speed serial interferences inside an FPGA. (SERDES)
  4. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including other engineering disciplines.
  5. Stay current on industry best practices and technological advancements in FPGA design and Digital Signal Processing.

Skills

Required

  • FPGA design tools (Modelsim, Xilinx Vivado or ISE, Altera Quartus, Microsemi, or similar)
  • Hardware Description Language (HDL) code development
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical or Aeronautical), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or equivalent

Nice to have

  • MSEE, MSCE
  • Verilog
  • C/C++
  • MATLAB/Simulink
  • Synopsis Synplify, Synopsis VCS, NCSim, ChipScope tool sets
  • Xilinx/AMD and MicroSemi/Microchip part families internal FPGA fabric and IP
  • management of Configuration Control (GitLab preferred)
  • Vivado and Vitis FPGA toolsets
  • UVM
  • Versal FPGAs
  • troubleshooting and debugging with board-level testing and FPGA validation
  • FPGA life cycle (architecture, design, simulation, verification, validation, integration & test)

What the JD emphasized

  • FPGA design
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • FPGA requirements
  • FPGA code
  • high-speed serial interferences
  • FPGA design tools
  • FPGA life cycle