FPGA Engineer, Senior

Job Title

Senior FPGA Engineer

Role Summary

Lead FPGA and microelectronics design, verification, and trust/assurance programs supporting advanced sensor and processing systems. Provide technical assessments, strategic planning, engineering evaluations, and program leadership across design, fabrication, packaging, and sustainment for government customers.

Experience Level

Senior — requires 7+ years of FPGA development and research experience across multiple device families and platforms.

Responsibilities

Lead technical and program efforts from concept through production.

• Lead design, verification, testing, fielding, and sustainment of advanced microelectronics and FPGA systems.
• Provide technical and programmatic advice and conduct technical assessments and engineering evaluations for government customers.
• Define architecture; produce functional block diagrams, state diagrams, and schematics; perform requirements allocation and interface definition.
• Develop hardware design specifications and plans; oversee circuit-level design, implementation, verification, acceptance, and production testing.
• Integrate hardware and embedded software; apply hardware design security and assurance practices.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills, verification experience, and clearance.

• Extensive FPGA development experience across multiple device families and platforms.
• Proficiency in Hardware Description Languages (HDL) and embedded design; implementing HDL for SoCs or FPGAs with or without microcontrollers.
• Experience with verification methodologies, test benches, and embedded software integration.
• Familiarity with alternatives to HDL for FPGA development (e.g., HDL Coder, Xilinx System Generator).
• Ability to perform functional analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition.
• Proven ability to lead hardware design efforts including architecture and block-level design.
• Experience planning and executing verification, acceptance, and production tests.
• Secret clearance required.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering required. Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering preferred; Doctorate (PhD) in Electrical or Computer Engineering is a plus. No certifications or explicit equivalent-experience language specified.

About the Company

Company: Booz Allen & Hamilton

Headquarters: McLean, Virginia, United States

Management and technology consulting firm providing analytics, engineering, cyber, digital, and mission services to U.S. government agencies (especially defense and intelligence) and commercial clients.