Senior FPGA Engineer & Flight Avionics Lead

L3Harris; Palm Bay (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies in Palm Bay, FL is seeking a Senior Specialist, FPGA Engineer to design, simulate, and integrate firmware for flight avionics systems. You will lead FPGA teams, map requirements to FPGA solutions, and verify designs in lab environments.

The role requires strong VHDL experience, familiarity with Kintex/UltraScale SoCs, high‑speed protocols like PCIe and Ethernet, and the ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance. Prior leadership and mentoring skills are a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and 6+ years of related experience; or graduate degree with 4+ years.
• In lieu of a degree, 10+ years of experience.
• Active Secret security clearance preferred.

Responsibilities

• Decompose requirements to FPGA specifications.
• Architect FPGA solutions against requirements and implement them on FPGA platforms.
• Lead teams of engineers generating FPGA design solutions.
• Ensure FPGA simulations verify performance and test on hardware.

Skills

VHDL

FPGA design

Altera/Xilinx

PCI Express

SRIO Ethernet

IPv6 UDP

Kintex/UltraScale

I2C SPI DDR3/DDR4

Mentoring

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Graduate Degree

Tools

Siemens toolset

Subversion (SVN)

Git

Job description

L3Harris Technologies in Palm Bay, FL is seeking a Senior Specialist, FPGA Engineer to design, simulate, and integrate firmware for flight avionics systems. You will lead FPGA teams, map requirements to FPGA solutions, and verify designs in lab environments.

The role requires strong VHDL experience, familiarity with Kintex/UltraScale SoCs, high‑speed protocols like PCIe and Ethernet, and the ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance. Prior leadership and mentoring skills are a plus.