FPGA Engineer

Tech Mirrors; Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Tech Mirrors is looking for an experienced FPGA Engineer in Melbourne, Florida. The position involves designing and developing safety-critical hardware for aerospace and ground-based vehicles.

Applicants should have 5+ years of circuit design experience, proficiency with HDL-based FPGAs, and a BSEE minimum. Responsibilities include managing design phases and ensuring system integration.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of circuit design experience, including design of HDL-based FPGAs and CPLDs.
• Hands-on hardware build, test, and integration experience.
• BSEE required, master's preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and document safety-critical hardware for aerospace systems.
• Manage all phases of FPGA/CPLD designs and system integration.
• Support requirements generation and design verification.

Skills

FPGA design

HDL-based FPGAs

Digital electronic devices and circuit design principles

Hardware build and test

Matlab and Simulink

Teamwork

Problem-solving

Education

BSEE

Master's Degree

Tools

Timing Designer

Hyperlynx

Synplify

ModelSim

Questasim

Job description

r. FPGA Engineer 5+Years in Aerospace andDO-254 experience.

Location: Melbourne, Florida
Duration: Contract & Fulltime both

Job Description

The Electrical Engineer designs, tests and documents safety-critical hardware. Responsible for developing and supporting FPGA/CPLD designs through all phases of design and system integration for high-reliability embedded aerospace and ground based vehicle systems applications.

Responsibilities

• Perform activities such as requirements generation, design, RTL-synthesis, test bench development and design simulation, static timing and power analysis, and requirements based design verification.
• Prototype evaluation, design-to-cost tradeoffs, design reviews, qualification test support, system integration support, production and obsolescence support tasks.
• Bachelor’s Degree and strong work experience or Master’s Degree and 8+ years of work experience.

Required Skills

• 5+ years circuit design experience, with the demonstrated ability to design HDL-based FPGAs and CPLDs.
• Knowledge of digital electronic devices and circuit design principles. Experience using design/analysis tools, such as Timing Designer and Hyperlynx a plus.
• Hands‑on hardware build, test, and integration experience.
• Motivated self‑starter with the ability to effectively work in a team environment.
• Excellent problem solving skills, judgment, and analytical capability, along with follow‑up and monitoring skills.
• Strong written and oral presentation skills.
• Experience with Matlab and Simulink for auto‑generation of FPGA code.
• Familiarity with FPGA integration into digital circuit card designs to ensure electrical integrity of FPGA design in embedded applications.
• 10-12 years’ work experience.
• Up to 25% Travel.
• Minimum Training/Education: BSEE.
• US CitizenshipRequired.

Preferred Skills and Education

• Experience with any of the following is a plus:
• Design experience with Microprocessor/Microcontroller interfaces such as I2C, SPI, CAN bus ARINC-825, memory interfaces such as SDRAM controllers, Flash, SRAM; serial interfaces (MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429, RS422, RS485, AFDX ARINC-664) and FPGA design using Microsemi, Xilinx, Lattice, Altera, etc.
• Experience with RTCA/DO-254 hardware development objectives.
• Design tools such as Synplify, ModelSim, Questasim.
• Experience with high-speed Digital circuit card design, including part placement and routing, constraint generation, and signal integrity analysis.
• Experience with VHDL, System Verilog designs and UVM test benches.
• Experience with state machines, code coverage.
• Experience with Requirements Management tools (i.e. DOORS), Configuration Management, and Problem Reporting tools.