Senior Firmware & Controls Engineer - FPGA/SoC Architect

Socket.dev; McKinney (TX); On-site; USD 108,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

RTX is seeking an experienced FPGA/firmware engineer for onsite work in McKinney, TX to develop firmware for new design hardware and control architectures. You will collaborate with electrical engineering, hardware, systems, and software teams to translate requirements into robust hardware solutions.

The role involves FPGA development/verification, design reviews, and firmware integration on control systems, with occasional travel. Remote work is not indicated and relocation support is provided.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience with hardware development and/or integration and a minimum of 6 yrs of experience in FPGA Logic design and verification.
• Experience in testing products using FPGA debugging tools (such as Xilinx/AMD Vivado).
• Experience with interfaces and bus standards such as: PCIe & 10/100 Gb Ethernet/Multi-gigabit serial standards (e.g. Aurora, RoCE, RIO).
• Experience designing with Xilinx and/or Altera FPGA/SoCs (Zynq, Kintex/Virtex Ultrascale and newer).
• Experience with architect control systems including translation of system level requirements into a hardware baseline; collaborate with SMEs to establish new architectures; implement ADDs; generate block diagrams and state machines.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary electrical engineering and hardware design team, with the primary objective of creating firmware solutions for new design hardware and new design controls architectures.
• Architect and implement controls solutions with requirements and algorithms defined by SMEs in a laboratory environment.
• Simulate, implement, test, and troubleshoot firmware updates, support design reviews, and perform as an integrator of the firmware on controls systems.
• Work in the product development team environment with systems, mechanical, and software engineers.
• Architect solutions for new business pursuits or new design systems is required.
• This position may require occasional business-related travel.

Skills

FPGA design

Verilog/VHDL

FPGA debugging

PCIe/ethernet interfaces

SoCs (Xilinx/Altera)

Education

STEM degree

Tools

Xilinx Vivado

Altera Quartus

Job description

RTX is seeking an experienced FPGA/firmware engineer for onsite work in McKinney, TX to develop firmware for new design hardware and control architectures. You will collaborate with electrical engineering, hardware, systems, and software teams to translate requirements into robust hardware solutions.

The role involves FPGA development/verification, design reviews, and firmware integration on control systems, with occasional travel. Remote work is not indicated and relocation support is provided.