Senior FPGA Engineer – Flight Avionics & Leadership

L3Harris Technologies; Palm Bay (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies in Palm Bay, Florida, is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to lead the design and integration of complex FPGA-based firmware for flight avionics systems. The role emphasizes architecture, simulation, and testing across multiple FPGA families, with potential team leadership responsibilities.

The ideal candidate has extensive VHDL experience, strong FPGA design skills, and the ability to drive development processes across projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

Responsibilities

• Decompose and allocate system and box-level requirements to FPGA specifications.
• Architect FPGA solutions against requirements and implement on FPGA platforms.
• Lead teams of engineers generating FPGA design solutions.
• Lead the full life cycle development and integration of VHDL into multiple FPGA families.
• Support qualification and production test for fielded products.

Skills

VHDL

FPGA

Altera

Xilinx

PCI Express

Ethernet

SoC

DDR3/DDR4

I2C/SPI

Simulation

Education

Bachelor's degree + 6 years

Tools

Siemens tools

Job description

L3Harris Technologies in Palm Bay, Florida, is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to lead the design and integration of complex FPGA-based firmware for flight avionics systems. The role emphasizes architecture, simulation, and testing across multiple FPGA families, with potential team leadership responsibilities.

The ideal candidate has extensive VHDL experience, strong FPGA design skills, and the ability to drive development processes across projects.