Circuit Design Engineer — FPGA & High-Speed Interfaces

Lockheed Martin; Grand Prairie (TX); On-site; USD 121,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible work arrangements

401(k) match

Paid time off

Holidays

Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Flexible Spending Accounts

Life Insurance

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

Job summary

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Dallas, TX is seeking a Circuit Card Design Engineer to lead high‑performance FPGA processing card development, from requirement capture through test and qualification, collaborating with PLD/FPGA, software and mechanical engineers.

You will drive supplier activities, perform SI/PI analysis, ensure MIL-STD compliance, and support production readiness while delivering on schedule and safety requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related STEM field from an accredited university.
• Extensive experience with circuit card design, integration, and test across multiple domains (digital, power, analog, FPGA/SoC).
• Experience with developing and refining system requirements, including performance, interface, and environmental requirements.
• Experience interpreting complex electrical schematics for circuit card assemblies.
• Experience in missile level architecture development from concept through SRR.
• Experience leading a team to advance missile development through flight demonstration within 4 years.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier technical activities for a subsystem.
• Oversee full product life cycle: design development, milestone reviews, SDRL concurrence, Functional Acceptance Test, Design Verification Test (DVT), and environmental qualification (MIL STD 810, MIL STD 464).
• Coordinate Functional & Physical Configuration Audits and Production Readiness events.
• Report risks/concerns to Program Manager and Chief Engineer; liaison to resolve supplier issues.
• Partner with government counterparts as Lockheed Martin’s subsystem representative.
• Drive innovative, affordable, schedule focused solutions while upholding mission and safety requirements.
• Capture requirements and perform detailed schematic design for a high-performance FPGA processing circuit card.
• Design and support layout of high-speed digital interfaces, including high pin‑count BGA routing.
• Perform or support signal- and power-integrity analysis for high‑speed digital and power circuitry.
• Support design verification, bench checkout, and integration testing of the circuit card.
• Collaborate with PLD/FPGA, software, and mechanical packaging engineers.
• Document designs and support change control per standard engineering release processes.

Skills

Circuit card design

System requirements development

Schematic interpretation

FPGA/SoC design

Missile systems knowledge

Signal integrity

Power integrity

Leadership

Environmental testing

SerDes interfaces

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or related STEM

Tools

Cadence Allegro/OrCAD

Altium Designer

HyperLynx

Job description

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Dallas, TX is seeking a Circuit Card Design Engineer to lead high‑performance FPGA processing card development, from requirement capture through test and qualification, collaborating with PLD/FPGA, software and mechanical engineers.

You will drive supplier activities, perform SI/PI analysis, ensure MIL-STD compliance, and support production readiness while delivering on schedule and safety requirements.