Hardware Systems Engineer - FPGA & High-Speed Interfaces

Parraid LLC; Hollywood (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-paid health/dental/vision

401(k)

Paid leave

11 holidays

Culture of excellence

Job summary

Parraid LLC is seeking a Hardware Systems Engineer to design, develop, and optimize complex hardware systems for aerospace and ground tactical applications. You will collaborate with software, product, and manufacturing teams to ensure seamless integration and robust performance of hardware components.

The role emphasizes system-level troubleshooting, validation, and testing to meet stringent industry standards and customer specifications while evaluating emerging technologies to improve

Qualifications

• 7+ years in hardware engineering with telecom/telemetry background.
• Experience with timing closure on FPGA designs.
• Exposure to EMC/EMI and environmental qualification processes.
• Scripting like Python for debugging and testing.

Responsibilities

• Develop hardware design specifications from requirements or sketches.
• Perform circuit design, verification, and production tests.
• Lead system-level analysis through all product design phases.
• Translate customer requirements into scalable hardware solutions.
• Conduct architectural reviews and create functional diagrams and schematics.
• Oversee FPGA simulations, signal integrity modeling, and power analysis.
• Coordinate with software, manufacturing, and QA for integration and testing.

Skills

PCI Express

DDR high-speed interfaces

Ethernet PHY

I2C

USB

SoC FPGA design

HDL (VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog)

noise reduction / EMI immunity

design execution / completed designs

Education

BSEE or MSEE

Related technical discipline

Tools

Riviera Pro

Active-HDL

Questa

VCS

MATLAB

Quartus Prime

AMD-Xilinx Vivado

Vitis

Cadence

PSPICE

Microsoft Office

Job description

Parraid LLC is seeking a Hardware Systems Engineer to design, develop, and optimize complex hardware systems for aerospace and ground tactical applications. You will collaborate with software, product, and manufacturing teams to ensure seamless integration and robust performance of hardware components.

The role emphasizes system-level troubleshooting, validation, and testing to meet stringent industry standards and customer specifications while evaluating emerging technologies to improve