Electronic Warfare FPGA Engineering Manager — Senior Leader

L3Harris Technologies; Clifton (NJ); On-site; USD 153,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Flexible spending accounts

Education assistance

Parental leave

Paid time off

Company-paid holidays

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies in Clifton, NJ seeks a Senior Manager of Electrical Engineering to lead a small team of firmware engineers in developing high-performance FPGA solutions for electronic warfare. You will drive architecture, coding, simulation, and lab verification to ensure mission-ready hardware.

The role requires extensive FPGA experience, strong leadership, and the ability to coordinate across software, firmware, and hardware teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with significant experience in electronic warfare or defense electronics.
• Extensive FPGA firmware development and architecture knowledge.
• Strong leadership and mentorship capabilities for senior FW engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a 6-8 engineer team to develop, simulate, and integrate firmware for EW systems.
• Decompose requirements to FPGA specifications and verify with lab tests.
• Ensure adherence to best practices and cross-functional development processes.

Skills

FPGA firmware architecture

C

C++

Python

Team leadership

Project management

Signal processing architectures

Linux

MBSE

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

MSEE or PhD

Tools

Mentor Graphics HDL Designer

Mentor Graphics ModelSim/Questa

Xilinx Vivado

Altera Quartus

SystemVerilog

SystemC

GIT

JIRA

Confluence

Linux

Job description

L3Harris Technologies in Clifton, NJ seeks a Senior Manager of Electrical Engineering to lead a small team of firmware engineers in developing high-performance FPGA solutions for electronic warfare. You will drive architecture, coding, simulation, and lab verification to ensure mission-ready hardware.

The role requires extensive FPGA experience, strong leadership, and the ability to coordinate across software, firmware, and hardware teams.