Senior FPGA Firmware Lead for Space Missions

Jobtome; Town of Henrietta (NY); On-site; USD 111,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies is seeking an FPGA Design Engineer - Firmware Lead in Rochester, NY to drive FPGA firmware activities for space mission systems. You will lead engineering teams and ensure robust HDL development, verification, and integration with system requirements.

The role requires strong FPGA/VHDL expertise, experience with Xilinx/Intel/Microsemi toolchains, and a path to government security clearance. Collaboration across proposal planning, design, and integration will be essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 9+ years of relevant experience; or a graduate degree with 7+ years of related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Ability to obtain Federal Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead FPGA firmware engineering activities for space mission systems.Decompose system requirements into FPGA requirements and specs.
• Architect FPGA solutions and implement across FPGA technologies/platforms.
• Lead small teams to develop high-reliability FPGA designs.
• Enforce and refine firmware development processes across FPGA designs.
• Develop HDL code for module and top-level designs and create testbenches and verification environments.
• Map FPGA work products to system-level requirements and capabilities.
• Synthesize designs and perform place & route and timing analysis.
• Ensure FPGA simulations verify performance and test FPGA on hardware.

Skills

VHDL

FPGA design

Version control

Vendor tool suites

Space environment design

High speed serial protocols

SpaceWire

Git

Subversion

Education

Bachelor's degree

Graduate degree

Tools

HDL simulators

Place & Route tools

Xilinx tools

Intel tools

Microsemi tools

Job description

L3Harris Technologies is seeking an FPGA Design Engineer - Firmware Lead in Rochester, NY to drive FPGA firmware activities for space mission systems. You will lead engineering teams and ensure robust HDL development, verification, and integration with system requirements.

The role requires strong FPGA/VHDL expertise, experience with Xilinx/Intel/Microsemi toolchains, and a path to government security clearance. Collaboration across proposal planning, design, and integration will be essential.