Senior FPGA Firmware & Controls Engineer (Onsite)

globalhr; McKinney (TX); On-site; USD 87,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance available

Job summary

RTX in McKinney, TX is seeking an experienced firmware/FPGA engineer to collaborate across electrical engineering and hardware teams, developing firmware for new hardware and control architectures.

You will implement and test control solutions, translate system requirements to hardware baselines, and work with SMEs to define architectures, with occasional travel. Onsite role requiring U.S. citizenship and security clearance.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience with hardware development and/or integration and a minimum of 3 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 technical subject matter experts to establish new architectures; Implement algorithm description documents (ADDs) within the hardware; Generate block diagrams and state machines of control systems.
• Experience hardware integration: Early design phases with development FPGA boards; Transition from development hardware to tactical hardware; Collaborating with hardware and software teams in a lab and/or scrum environment.

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 subject matter experts (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

Firmware development

FPGA design

Hardware integration

Lab testing

Agile/Scrum

JIRA

Education

STEM degree

Tools

Vivado

Xilinx/Altera FPGA/SoCs

JIRA

Job description

RTX in McKinney, TX is seeking an experienced firmware/FPGA engineer to collaborate across electrical engineering and hardware teams, developing firmware for new hardware and control architectures.

You will implement and test control solutions, translate system requirements to hardware baselines, and work with SMEs to define architectures, with occasional travel. Onsite role requiring U.S. citizenship and security clearance.