Senior Specialist, FPGA Digital Design Engineer

Innova Solutions Inc; Bristol Township (Bucks County); On-site; USD 103,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Innova Solutions, via a client, is seeking an experienced FPGA Digital Design Engineer to develop firmware for airborne telemetry, RF, and secure communications. The role involves translating system requirements into FPGA architectures and delivering VHDL implementations for ruggedized embedded hardware.

You will work with RF, systems, electrical and software teams, perform simulations, tests, and production-readiness activities, and support qualification and environmental testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field.
• Minimum six years of relevant engineering experience or equivalent.
• Experience with VHDL development and FPGA toolchains required.

Responsibilities

• Translate system and circuit-card requirements into FPGA requirements and architectures.
• Implement FPGA designs in VHDL with proper synthesis and timing closure.
• Verify FPGA functionality via simulation and test on targeted hardware.

Skills

VHDL development

FPGA design

MATLAB/Simulink models

DSP algorithms

Vivado

Quartus

Libero

Embedded systems knowledge

Oscilloscopes/logic analyzers

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Vivado

Quartus

Libero

Job description

A client of Innova Solutions is immediately hiring for a Senior Specialist, FPGA Digital Design Engineer.

Position Type: Full-time Contract, Possible Contract to Hire Duration: 06-12months Location: Bristol, PA 19007 (Onsite/1st Shift)

The FPGA Digital Design Engineer supports the development of field?programmable gate array (FPGA) firmware for airborne telemetry, radio frequency (RF), secure communications, and embedded flight?safety systems. This role contributes to the design, implementation, verification, and integration of advanced digital telemetry, signal processing, instrumentation, and encryption functions used in ruggedized mission?critical embedded hardware. The position works closely with electrical, RF, systems, and software engineering teams to translate system?level requirements into FPGA architecture and very?high?speed integrated circuit hardware description language (VHDL) implementations. The successful candidate will join a collaborative engineering organization focused on delivering high?reliability solutions supporting United States and allied aerospace and defense platforms.

Essential Functions:

• Support estimation, planning, and scheduling of FPGA development activities across the full product lifecycle.
• Translate system and circuit-card-level requirements into FPGA requirements, specifications, and architectures.
• Implement FPGA designs in VHDL, ensuring proper synthesis, timing closure, constraint management, resource efficiency, and platform-specific optimization.
• Verify FPGA functionality through simulation, then integrate and test designs on targeted circuit card assemblies in airborne and ruggedized environments.
• Develop digital signal processing and communication-oriented FPGA functions such as filtering, mixing, signal conversion, encoding, and error-correction.
• Follow, apply, and refine disciplined firmware development processes, peer reviews, and documentation practices.
• Generate clear technical documentation including design review materials, block diagrams, interface documents, and test plans and procedures.
• Collaborate closely with RF, systems, electrical, and software engineers to ensure clean digital-to-RF and digital-to-system integration.
• Prepare FPGA designs for production readiness by supporting qualification, environmental testing, and performance validation.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience designing FPGA-based hardware for ruggedized airborne, secure communications, telemetry, or RF applications.
• Experience verifying FPGA implementations against MATLAB or Simulink system-level models.
• Experience developing FPGA-based digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms for modulation, demodulation, filtering, or signal conversion.
• Experience with multiple FPGA toolsets (Vivado, Quartus, Libero) and embedded-system integration.
• Experience supporting qualification, environmental testing, and performance validation for high-reliability hardware.
• Experience with secure communications or encryption-related FPGA processing.
• Familiarity with embedded microcontrollers or mixed FPGA-processor architectures.

Ideal candidate will have:

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of six years of relevant engineering experience; or a graduate degree and a minimum of four years of related experience; or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of ten years of related engineering experience.
• Minimum four years of experience with VHDL development, FPGA design methodologies, and FPGA toolchains.
• Experience implementing FPGA designs with demanding timing, routing, or resource constraints.
• Experience integrating FPGA designs onto circuit card assemblies and using laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and signal generators.
• Experience with at least one major FPGA vendor platform such as AMD (Xilinx), Intel (Altera), or Microchip (Microsemi).

Pay Range*: Between $75- $80 per hour> *Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

This position needs a United States Secret security clearance.

This position is only open to applicants who can be engaged on a W-2 basis. 1099 contractors and Corp-to-Corp arrangements will not be considered for this position.

Benefits:

• Medical & pharmacy coverage, Dental/vision insurance, 401(k), Health saving account (HSA) and Flexible spending account (FSA), Life Insurance, Pet Insurance, Short term and Long term Disability, Accident & Critical illness coverage, Pre-paid legal & ID theft protection, Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

ABOUT INNOVA SOLUTIONS:

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Innova Solutions employs approximately 50,000 professionals worldwide and reports an annual revenue approaching $3 Billion. Through our global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe, we deliver strategic technology and business transformation solutions to our clients, enabling them to operate as leaders within their fields.

• Named One of America's Best Employers for New Grads by Forbes (2024)
• Named One of the Best Companies to Work for by U.S. News & World Report (Private Companies List, 2024-2025)
• One of the Largest IT Staffing Firms in the US - Ranked #3 by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA, 2024)
• One of the Largest Staffing Firms in the US - Ranked #13 by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA, 2024; includes Innova Solutions, Volt, & HireGenics)
• Named One of the Top Ten Private Companies in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle (2023)
• One of the Largest Certified Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) in the United States (NMSDC, 2024)
• AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with 100+ certifications

Website: https://www.innovasolutions.com/

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