FPGA Firmware Lead Engineer — Space Mission Systems

L3Harris Technologies; City of Rochester (NY); On-site; USD 111,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and disability insurance

401(k) match

Parental leave

Paid time off

Company-paid holidays

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies in Rochester, New York, is seeking an FPGA Design Engineer – Firmware Lead to lead FPGA firmware activities in the Space Mission Systems segment.

The role involves decomposing requirements, architecting FPGA solutions, guiding small teams, and ensuring robust verification and timing analysis across FPGA designs. Competitive pay, full benefits, and security-clearance eligibility are offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 9+ years of related experience; or 7+ with graduate degree.
• Ability to obtain Federal Secret security clearance.
• Experience designing for space environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead FPGA firmware engineering activities for SMS Segment.
• Decompose system requirements to FPGA requirements.
• Architect FPGA solutions and implement on various platforms.
• Lead small teams of engineers on FPGA development.
• Develop HDL code and create testbenches and verification environments.
• Map simulations to system requirements and perform timing analysis.

Skills

FPGA design

Firmware development

HDL coding

VHDL

Version control

Requirements decomposition

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Graduate Degree

Tools

Xilinx Tool Suite

Microsemi Tool Suite

Intel Tool Suite

Job description

L3Harris Technologies in Rochester, New York, is seeking an FPGA Design Engineer – Firmware Lead to lead FPGA firmware activities in the Space Mission Systems segment.

The role involves decomposing requirements, architecting FPGA solutions, guiding small teams, and ensuring robust verification and timing analysis across FPGA designs. Competitive pay, full benefits, and security-clearance eligibility are offered.