ASIC/FPGA Quality Engineer
Collins AerospaceJob Title
ASIC/FPGA Quality Engineer
Role Summary
Provide quality oversight for ASIC and FPGA engineering efforts within the Avionics Design Quality Assurance (DQA) team. Ensure hardware designs meet engineering, quality, and regulatory expectations throughout the product lifecycle.
This role performs audits, metrics analysis, and process guidance to improve product quality and maintain certification readiness.
Experience Level
Senior-level. Typically requires 8+ years of relevant experience.
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities include technical quality assurance, process audits, metrics, and cross-team guidance.
- Provide technical and process oversight of ASIC/FPGA development for avionics products.
- Perform proactive technical and process audits using objective criteria and best practices.
- Analyze and report quality metrics to identify trends and systemic issues.
- Advise hardware engineering teams on process and regulatory requirements to support project execution and certification.
- Review and verify engineering artifacts, and participate in structured peer reviews.
- Build credibility across leadership, engineering teams, and customers to foster a culture of quality and continuous improvement.
Requirements
Must-have technical skills and demonstrated experience. Nice-to-have items listed at the end.
- Hands-on experience executing DO-254 or equivalent structured hardware development processes across the full lifecycle.
- Direct experience developing, reviewing, or verifying ASIC and/or FPGA designs, including requirements capture and HDL development.
- Experience preparing and maintaining hardware lifecycle documentation for certification.
- Experience with configuration management and change control systems for electronic hardware development.
- Experience conducting structured peer reviews for hardware design and verification artifacts.
- Familiarity with industry-standard design, simulation, and verification tools used in ASIC/FPGA development.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills; ability to influence engineering processes.
- Experience working in AGILE development environments.
- Nice-to-have: Knowledge of FAA regulatory requirements and formal Design Quality Assurance principles.
Education Requirements
Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) with a minimum of 8 years relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience.
About the Company
Company: Collins Aerospace
Headquarters: Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
A major aerospace and defense supplier providing avionics, mission systems, mechanical systems, aircraft interiors, and related services for commercial and military customers. Formed from the merger of Rockwell Collins and UTC Aerospace, it is part of RTX and supports aircraft manufacturers, airlines, and defense programs worldwide.
