Lead, FPGA Verification Engineer

L3Harris; Palm Bay (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies in Palm Bay, FL is seeking a Lead FPGA Verification engineer specializing in UVM-based design verification for complex digital blocks. You will design and execute verification plans, build reusable testbenches, and drive coverage through constrained-random and directed tests.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree with extensive experience (9+ years), strong SystemVerilog, UVM, and scripting skills, with the ability to obtain a US government clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and 9+ years of related experience; or 13 years with no degree.
• Strong background in SystemVerilog and UVM-based verification.
• Experience with constrained-random verification and regression automation.

Responsibilities

• Execute and contribute to the FPGA verification plan.
• Architect UVM test cases for blocks within the FPGA.
• Develop reusable agents, top-level testbenches, and environments.
• Define functional coverage model and achieve code coverage targets.
• Create drivers, monitors, and scoreboards using UVM.

Skills

UVM verification

SystemVerilog

Constrained random

Python

C/C++

Linux

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Graduate Degree

Tools

Vivado

Quartus

EDA tools

VHDL

PCIe

Job description

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title: Lead, FPGA Verification, UVM

Job Code: 44204

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

Seeking talented UVM/Design Verification Engineer, able to work in teams and independently, learn quickly, and be productive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. The ideal candidate will have experience developing and executing verification plans, building reusable UVM-based testbenches, and creating constrained-random and directed tests to validate complex digital designs. Responsibilities include debugging simulation failures, analyzing coverage metrics, collaborating closely with design and systems engineers, and ensuring functional correctness throughout the development lifecycle. Candidates should demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, familiarity with industry-standard EDA tools, and the ability to clearly communicate technical issues and solutions. Experience with SystemVerilog, assertion-based verification, scripting languages, and regression automation is highly desirable.

Essential Functions:

• Execute and contribute to the FPGA verification plan
• Architect UVM test cases for individual blocks or sub blocks within an FPGA
• Develop reusable agents, top level testbench modules and environments
• Define and implement functional coverage model based upon DUT requirements and close code coverage.
• Utilize UVM to create drivers, monitors, predictors, and scoreboards based on DUT requirements.
• Strong understanding of FPGA design process including requirements generation, preliminary design, peer reviews, detailed design, test plan generation, and integration and test.
• Work independently or with limited guidance to develop test bench solutions.
• Familiarity with test scoping for complex designs, code coverage, functional coverage, assertions.
• Ability to focus on finding design issues, corner cases and out of box ideas to make designs more robust.
• Ability to obtain US government clearance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience with and understanding of Altera or Xilinx / AMD FPGA architectures
• Experience with high speed serial protocols (PCI Express, SRIO, Ethernet)
• Experience designing 10G Ethernet based Network Interface Designs
• Experience in network protocols including IPv6 and UDP
• Experience with SoC (Kintex UltraScale/UltraScale+, Virtex UltraScale/UltraScale+, Zynq UltraScale)
• Experience with VHDL
• Experience in ASIC / FPGA verification using C/C++ and/or System Verilog
• Experience with DO-254 air worthiness certification
• Experience with building and setting up scalable simulation/verification environments.
• Experience with and understanding of Altera and/or Xilinx FPGA architectures.
• Experience with Vivado and/or Quartus tool suite.
• Proficiency with hardware verification languages: System Verilog, System Verilog Assertions
• Proficiency with Object Oriented Programming Concepts: Inheritance, Polymorphism, etc.
• Proficient in scripting languages: bash/csh, Perl, Python, etc.
• Revision Control Systems: svn, git
• Proficient in Linux Environments
• Constrained Random Verification Experience highly desired.
• Experience with packet-based protocols (PCI Express etc.), Network-centric designs (Ethernet, IP, FC).
• Experience with high speed memory interfaces (DDRx)
• #LI-KT1

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.

Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

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