Senior FPGA & ASIC Design Engineer (Defense)

Lockheed Martin; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 148,000 - 276,000; Full time

Job summary

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control seeks an ASIC & FPGA Engineer to own end-to-end FPGA development and coordinate a multidisciplinary team of engineers. You will translate system requirements into high‑performance hardware while managing risk and communicating progress to leadership.

You will conduct FPGA trade studies, collaborate across software, hardware and systems teams, and verify datalink communications through simulation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or related discipline; equivalent experience accepted.
• Proven experience leading FPGA design teams or managing FPGA development projects.
• Proficiency in hardware description languages (VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog).
• Experience with embedded System‑on‑Chip integration and hardware validation.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end development of FPGA solutions and coordinate multidisciplinary teams.
• Develop trade studies to optimize FPGA choice for utilization, power, and thermal.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, and systems engineering to define architectures and FPGA requirements.
• Contribute to Design Architecture development process across the team.
• Perform datalink/communication verification through simulation.

Skills

FPGA leadership

HDL (VHDL/Verilog/SV)

Embedded SoC

Video processing

FPGA simulation

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Tools

AMD/Xilinx tools

Vivado/Vitis

GitLab

Versal/UltraScale+

Job description

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control seeks an ASIC & FPGA Engineer to own end-to-end FPGA development and coordinate a multidisciplinary team of engineers. You will translate system requirements into high‑performance hardware while managing risk and communicating progress to leadership.

You will conduct FPGA trade studies, collaborate across software, hardware and systems teams, and verify datalink communications through simulation.