Principal FPGA Design Engineer

4 weeks ago


Cambridge, United States Draper Labs Full time


Principal FPGA Design Engineer

Job Location

US-MA-Cambridge

Requisition ID

2024-8233

Overview

Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. The 2,000+ employees of Draper tackle important national challenges with a promise of delivering successful and usable solutions. From military defense and space exploration to biomedical engineering, lives often depend on the solutions we provide. Our multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists work in a collaborative environment that inspires the cross-fertilization of ideas necessary for true innovation. For more information about Draper, visit www.draper.com.

Our work is very important to us, but so is our life outside of work. Draper supports many programs to improve work-life balance including workplace flexibility, employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga, health and finance workshops, off site social events and discounts to local museums and cultural activities. If this specific job opportunity and the chance to work at a nationally renowned R&D innovation company appeals to you, apply now www.draper.com/careers.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Draper is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. We understand the value of diversity and its impact on a high-performance culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

Draper is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, please contact hr@draper.com.

Responsibilities

We are seeking a talented principal engineer to join the digital design team at Draper. The successful candidate will contribute to FPGA development with an emphasis on architecture, design, simulation, and test/support. Candidate must have experience using high level design and simulation tools and be familiar with process flows supporting design and simulation for digital FPGA efforts. Applicant should also be familiar with embedded software development for FPGA SoCs.

The ideal candidate will be capable of working independently as well as working and communicating effectively with team members from multiple engineering, program, and customer groups. As a principal member, you will have leadership opportunities and mentoring responsibilities.

Preference will be given to candidates with an understanding of hardware security, signal or image processing, filter design and algorithm implementation in hardware. Direct experience with embedded FPGA design is required.

Minimum of 3 days/week onsite.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • BSEE with 10+ years relevant experience
  • Fluent in Verilog or VHDL
  • Significant experience in FPGA Design / Development
  • Familiarity with Xilinx Vivado and/or Microsemi Libero
  • Digital simulation using Modelsim/Questa
  • Significant experience with design closure including timing, power, and area for SWaP constrained designs
  • Experience with high speed interfaces like SERDES, PCIe, DDR2/3/4, LVDS
  • Experience implementing digital signal processing algorithms
  • Strong analysis and problem-solving skills
  • Experience with scripting languages
  • Excellent communication and teaming skills
  • Self-starter and a good team player
  • Ability to mentor and willingness to be mentored

Preferred Qualifications:

  • MSEE with 10+ years relevant experience
  • Experience with Matlab/Simulink
  • UVM skills (Test and/or Test Bench Development)
  • Experience in hardware design and hands-on lab debug
  • Experience working with FPGA design verification teams

Security Requirement:

Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance. US citizenship is required.

STRONG PREFERENCE given to applicants with current in scope DoD Secret or Top Secret clearance.

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