Senior Principal FPGA/ Firmware Engineer - Real-Time A&D

Prattwhitney; McKinney (TX); On-site; USD 132,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Flexible work schedules

Educational assistance

401(k) match

Relocation assistance

Job summary

RTX is seeking a Senior Principal Electrical Engineer – FPGA/Firmware to design high-performance digital processing solutions for APS in McKinney, TX. The role is onsite and involves working with RF, systems, mechanical and software engineers to deliver robust FPGA implementations.

You will drive RTL and model-based work through simulation, place‑and‑route, and timing closure, while mentoring EIC engineers and enabling real-time DSP pipelines.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-speed FPGA solutions using VHDL and/or Verilog.
• Participate in the FPGA development lifecycle: requirements → RTL/model-based implementation → simulation → place-and-route → timing closure → hardware integration.
• Develop multi-clock, high-throughput digital designs with strong emphasis on Timing closure at high clock speeds, Clock domain crossing (CDC), Data paths and handshaking between processing blocks.
• Implement and integrate DSP functions such as channelization, filtering, pulse estimation, and real-time signal processing pipelines.
• Contribute to systems that digitize RF signals and generate Pulse Descriptor Words (PDWs) for downstream software processing.
• Perform development on FPGA dev boards, system level emulators, and migrate designs to deliverable hardware.
• Support integration, test events, and lab validation using equipment such as Signal generators, Spectrum analyzers, Logic analyzers, Oscilloscopes, Power meters.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams including RF, systems, mechanical and software engineers.
• Train EIC (Early In Career) Engineers.

Skills

VHDL

Verilog

Vivado

Quartus

Timing closure

Clock domain crossing

FPGA design

DSP algorithms

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

Vivado

Quartus

Mentor Graphics XPedition

HyperLynx SI

SPICE

Job description

RTX is seeking a Senior Principal Electrical Engineer – FPGA/Firmware to design high-performance digital processing solutions for APS in McKinney, TX. The role is onsite and involves working with RF, systems, mechanical and software engineers to deliver robust FPGA implementations.

You will drive RTL and model-based work through simulation, place‑and‑route, and timing closure, while mentoring EIC engineers and enabling real-time DSP pipelines.