FPGA Engineer, Senior

Job Title

FPGA Engineer, Senior

Role Summary

Lead technical programs delivering FPGA-based microelectronics solutions for advanced systems, sensors, and processing technologies supporting Department of Defense customers. Provide technical and programmatic leadership across design, verification, fabrication, packaging, and trust/assurance activities.

Work directly with government customers to perform technical assessments, strategic planning, and engineering evaluations for assurance and fielding of critical microelectronics systems.

Experience Level

Senior — requires significant hands-on FPGA development and research experience. The posting specifies 7+ years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include technical leadership, system design, verification, and program support.

• Lead design, development, testing, fielding, and sustainment of FPGA and microelectronics systems.
• Provide technical and programmatic advice to government customers and lead engineering evaluations.
• Develop hardware architecture, block diagrams, state diagrams, and schematics for FPGA-based systems.
• Create hardware design specifications, technical plans, circuit-level designs, and verification plans.
• Perform functional analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definitions.
• Oversee verification, formal acceptance testing, and production test activities.
• Address security, trust, and assurance considerations in hardware and design flows.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills, security eligibility, and hands-on experience.

• 7+ years of FPGA development and research experience across multiple device families and platforms.
• Proficiency with Hardware Description Languages (HDL) and embedded design practices.
• Experience implementing HDL for systems-on-chip or FPGAs, with or without microcontrollers.
• Familiarity with hardware and design security concepts, verification methodologies, and test benches; experience with embedded software is expected.
• Knowledge of alternatives to traditional HDL in FPGA workflows (e.g., HDL Coder, Xilinx System Generator).
• Ability to perform technical planning, implementation, verification, and production testing for hardware designs.
• Proven ability to lead hardware design efforts and coordinate cross-discipline engineering tasks.
• Active or eligible for Secret security 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 is a plus.

Nice to Have

• Experience in verification of defense microelectronics systems.
• Familiarity with microelectronics design and verification landscape including various IP block types.
• Experience with Universal Verification Methodology (UVM).
• Experience with continuous integration and automated build/test workflows.

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.