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Lead, Electrical Engineer - FPGA Designer at L3Harris Technologies summary:

The Lead Electrical Engineer - FPGA Designer at L3Harris develops and leads FPGA and embedded software design for advanced electrical systems in defense applications. This role involves digital system architecture, component selection, power and thermal optimization, and collaboration with manufacturing and verification teams. The position requires extensive experience in FPGA development, embedded software, and electrical design within the Department of Defense industry.

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title: Lead, Electrical Engineer - FPGA Designer

Job Code: 25783

Job Location: Orlando, FL

Schedule: 9/80 - Onsite

Job Description:

The Senior Digital Design Engineer will be a key member of the ALST Engineering team. This individual will be responsible for leading development of FPGAs and embedded software for electrical system and subsystem architectures, analyzing designs to ensure they meet customer specifications, generating block diagrams, and selecting components for the electronics associated with advanced laser systems.

This position requires the individual to have a well-rounded background with deep knowledge of digital design and embedded software engineering practices. He / she must possess the ability to design new control circuitry that minimizes power consumption and thermal emissions by leveraging state-of-the-art components and layout technologies. This individual must have sufficient experience with design for manufacturing (DFM) to minimize manufacturing costs of these new designs. Additionally, the candidate must be able to support product development, verification, and transitioning designs into manufacturing by working with design and development engineers and production technicians.

Essential Functions:

• Digital systems development to include digital sub-systems architecture, requirements decomposition and flow-down, specification development, design tradeoff optimization and design approach determination including hardware / software tradeoff optimization and component selection, detailed design, design analysis with documentation, gate reviews, and verification.
• FPGA design including VHDL and/or Verilog coding, verification plan generation, simulation test bench development, simultation testcase coding, Static Timing Analysis (STA), power consumption estimation, FPGA synthesis, FPGA place and route, lab test development and execution, debug.
• Embedded software develeopment, including software architecture, coding, unit test, and software verification. C/C++ coding experience.
• Familiarity with serial and parallel digital interfaces; I2C, SPI, RS-422/RS-485
• Analysis of power consumption, worst case tolerances, component de-rating.
• Operation of lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, multi-meters, and function generators.
• Ability to develop and make technical presentations to customers and other L3Harris groups.
• Supervise and/or provide guidance in design certification tests and document results.
• Troubleshoot electronics failures and root cause failures in system applications.
• Monitor and define priorities for the projects he/she is working on a daily basis. Status reporting.
• Responsible for ensuring that specified quality standards are met for all tasks completed.
• Demonstrates ethical and professional behavior in accordance with company values.
• Ability to be successful in a fast paced work environment.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience .
• 9+ years electrical design experience in the DOD industry.
• 7+ years of FPGA development experience in the DOD industry.
• 5+ years embedded software development experience in the DOD industry.
• 5+ years of experience developing electronics for the DoD / military marke.t
• 5+ years experience tasking, scheduling, and budgeting EE and software design and development programs.
• 5+ years leading EE design and development teams.
• United States citizenship is required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a valid U.S. Passport.
• Able to travel within the US, up to 25%.
• Possess and maintain a valid drivers license.
• Able to work weekends and evenings as required to meet company objectives.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• LabWindows, LabView, or other Graphical User Interface (GUI) development experience is a plus.
• Circuit Card Assembly (CCA) design experience is a plus, including component selection, schematic capture, PCB stackup, design constraints, PCB layout and routing, component derating analysis, system wiring diagrams.
• Analog circuit design and power supply design experience is a plus
• Familiarity with Military Specifications/Standards

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Keywords:

FPGA design, embedded software, digital system architecture, VHDL, Verilog, power consumption optimization, electrical engineering, defense industry, component selection, design for manufacturing

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