Principal FPGA Engineer – High-Performance Defense Systems

Butler Aerospace & Defense; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

Butler America Aerospace, LLC. seeks a Principal FPGA Engineering Contractor to advance defense-grade digital FPGA designs within the ART Microelectronics Technology team. You will lead design, verification, and integration of high-performance FPGAs on target hardware.

The role requires a STEM degree and 8+ years of FPGA/ASIC experience, strong VHDL/Verilog, and proficiency with Vivado, Quartus or Libero. You will collaborate in Agile environments, review artifacts, and help improve FPGA design

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience.
• A minimum of 5 years professional experience in FPGA development, ASIC front end, or related areas
• Proficient in VHDL/Verilog for FPGA/ASIC design and implementation.
• Experience in digital circuit architecture, design, resource tradeoffs, timing analysis, and timing closure
• Familiarity with FPGA platforms such as AMD/Xilinx, Altera, Microchip, or others, and associated toolchains (e.g., Vivado, Quartus, Libero).
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills for FPGA/ASIC systems.
• Proficiency with revision control concepts and tools (e.g., Git, Subversion)

Responsibilities

• Adhere to all applicable Engineering Development and Quality processes, procedures, instructions and guidelines.
• Participate in Agile team meetings and planning activities, as required to support programs covered by this work plan.
• Requirements, design and verification of FPGA solutions
• Integration of developed FPGA on target hardware units
• Supporting peer reviews and certification analysis activities
• Peer reviewing FPGA development artifacts
• Recommend new tools and practices for continuous improvement in the group's ASIC / FPGA design flow
• Contribute to engineering estimates for new program pursuits.
• Provide technical leadership for project design teams by breaking down work, planning activities, and reporting status

Skills

FPGA development

VHDL/Verilog

Timing analysis

Debugging

Revision control

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Advanced degree in related field

Tools

Vivado

Quartus

Libero

Git

Subversion

Job description

Butler America Aerospace, LLC. seeks a Principal FPGA Engineering Contractor to advance defense-grade digital FPGA designs within the ART Microelectronics Technology team. You will lead design, verification, and integration of high-performance FPGAs on target hardware.

The role requires a STEM degree and 8+ years of FPGA/ASIC experience, strong VHDL/Verilog, and proficiency with Vivado, Quartus or Libero. You will collaborate in Agile environments, review artifacts, and help improve FPGA design