Senior Digital Hardware Engineer – FPGA & High-Speed

Top Echelon Software, LLC; City of Syracuse (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Benefits

Stock options

Job summary

Top Echelon Software, LLC in Syracuse, NY, is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer – Digital Hardware to design and develop advanced digital hardware, FPGA-based systems, and high-speed interfaces for DoD sensing technologies.

You will lead PCB layout, architect FPGA solutions using VHDL/Verilog on Xilinx platforms, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Strong lab skills and ability to obtain U.S. government clearance are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of digital hardware design experience.
• Experience designing analog and digital circuits including FPGAs, microcontrollers, memory, and high-speed interfaces.
• Hands-on experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and similar lab equipment.
• Experience with VHDL and/or Verilog.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• U.S. Citizenship required with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of advanced digital hardware for next-generation products.
• Design multi-layer PCBs, develop schematics, and support board layout activities.
• Architect and develop FPGA solutions using VHDL and/or Verilog on modern Xilinx platforms.
• Perform hardware integration, testing, validation, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Design high-speed digital interfaces, data acquisition systems, digital signal processing (DSP), and communication architectures.
• Develop Python and Bash scripts to automate engineering workflows and improve efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams throughout the entire product development lifecycle.

Skills

FPGA design

VHDL/Verilog

Python

Bash

High-speed digital design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

Xilinx Vivado

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Job description

Top Echelon Software, LLC in Syracuse, NY, is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer – Digital Hardware to design and develop advanced digital hardware, FPGA-based systems, and high-speed interfaces for DoD sensing technologies.

You will lead PCB layout, architect FPGA solutions using VHDL/Verilog on Xilinx platforms, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Strong lab skills and ability to obtain U.S. government clearance are required.