Job Description:
- Under direct supervision, performs engineering work and applied research, development, and design of new products.
- Work includes design, fabrication, modification, and evaluation of electronic apparatus, components, or circuitry for use in electronic equipment and devices.
- Analyzes equipment to establish operating data and conduct experimental tests.
- Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and no prior experience.
- The Experienced Engineer performs or directs others in sophisticated analysis, design and testing of complex systems.
- Responsible for developing and supporting FPGA/CPLD designs through all phases of design and system integration for high-reliability embedded aerospace and ground based vehicle systems applications.
Responsibilities:
- Perform activities such as requirements generation, design, RTL-synthesis, test bench development and design simulation, static timing and power analysis, and requirements based design verification.
- Prototype evaluation, design-to-cost tradeoffs, design reviews, qualification test support, system integration support, production and obsolescence support tasks.
- Maintain the desire to stay current in the continuously developing field and to expand knowledge base and skills in FPGA design and digital hardware engineering.
- Considered an expert in specific engineering discipline
- Provides leadership to promote system engineering education and training across the engineering department
- Decisions have major impact on cost, schedule and technical performance
- Acts as a mentor to engineering leadership
- Leads, writes, reviews, and delivers proposals and presentations
Required Skills and Education:
- 5+ years circuit design experience, with the demonstrated ability to design HDL-based FPGAs and CPLDs for aerospace applications.
- Comprehensive knowledge of digital electronic devices and circuit design principles and experience using design/analysis tools, such as Timing Designer and Hyperlynx.
- Synopsys - Design Complier (DC), IC Compiler II (ICC2), PrimeTime (PT), PrimePower (PT-PX)
- Hands-on hardware build, test, and integration experience.
- Familiarity with RTCA/DO-254 hardware development objectives
- Experience with Matlab and Simulink for auto-generation of FPGA code
- Motivated self-starter with the ability to effectively work in a team environment.
- Excellent problem solving skills, judgment, and analytical capability, along with follow-up and monitoring skills.
- Strong written and oral presentation skills.
- Familiarity with FPGA integration into digital circuit card designs to ensure electrical integrity of FPGA design in embedded applications.
- 10 years’ work experience
- Minimum Training/Education: BSEE
Preferred Skills and Education:
- Experience with any of the following is a plus:
- Design experience with Microprocessor/Microcontroller interfaces such as I2C, SPI, CAN bus ARINC-825, memory interfaces such as SDRAM controllers, Flash, SRAM; serial interfaces (MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429, RS422, RS485, AFDX ARINC-664) and FPGA design using Microsemi, Xilinx, Lattice, Altera, etc.
- Familiarity with RTCA/DO-254 hardware development objectives
- Experience with Matlab and Simulink for auto-generation of FPGA code
- Design tools such as Synplify, ModelSim, Questasim
- Experience with high-speed Digital circuit card design, including part placement and routing, constraint generation, and signal integrity analysis.
- Emphasis on design-to-cost methodology
- Experience with VHDL, System Verilog designs and OVM/UVM test benches
- Experience with state machines, code coverage
- C++ or other Object Oriented Programming languages
- Perl, Python, Tcl or other industry standard scripting languages
- Synposys VCS
- Synopsys Verdi waveform viewer and debug system
- Cadence JasperGold Formal Verification Platform
- Mentor Graphics Calibre
- Cadence Conformal LEC
- Apache RedHawk
- Synopsys PrimeTime-SI (PT-SI)
- Experience with Requirements Management tools (i.e. DOORS), Configuration Management, and Problem Reporting tools.
- Knowledgeable of commercial certification objectives and activities.
- Experience with development of formal validation and verification procedures.
- Demonstrated leadership ability to lead small working groups.
- Experience with flight critical fly-by-wire Flight Controls, Actuators, Air Data Systems, Pilot Inceptors, Inertial Sensors and/or Autopilot systems.
Job Families for Job Profiles:
- Electronic/Digital Engineering.