Senior FPGA Design Engineer

Job Title

Senior FPGA Design Engineer

Role Summary

Perceptive Innovations seeks an experienced engineer to lead and contribute to FPGA-based digital signal processing development for RF and optical/thermal imaging systems. The role focuses on architecture, RTL implementation, verification, and delivery of high-performance FPGA solutions for embedded systems.

Successful candidates must be U.S. citizens and able to obtain a DoD security clearance.

Experience Level

Senior-level. Minimum 5 years of FPGA development experience required; 10+ years preferred, including leadership of FPGA projects.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include design, verification, integration, and documentation of FPGA signal processing systems.

• Architect, implement, and optimize FPGA-based digital signal processing engines for RF and imaging systems.
• Develop self-checking unit and system-level testbenches and run simulations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve design, timing, and integration issues.
• Integrate FPGA IP cores and interfaces (memory, video, Ethernet, USB, SFP+, etc.).
• Produce detailed design documentation and government-facing reports as required.
• Manage individual tasks and schedules, participate in code reviews, and coordinate with team members and customers.

Requirements

Must-have skills and qualifications are listed first, followed by desirable skills.

• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a DoD security clearance (mandatory).
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on RTL design, simulation, and implementation experience; VHDL primary, Verilog secondary.
• Mastery of FPGA tool flows (Xilinx Vitis/Vivado, Intel Quartus Prime, Lattice Radiant, Microsemi Libero); synthesis, place-and-route, TCL scripting and GUI usage.
• Recent Xilinx experience with UltraScale+ devices, Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, and Versal platforms; understanding of FPGA SoC hardware/software co-design.
• Experience integrating DDR memory, HDMI/DisplayPort video, multi-gigabit Ethernet, SFP+, and USB3 interfaces.
• Strong Linux experience (including embedded Linux) and familiarity with embedded multicore processors.
• Ability to develop verification environments and self-checking testbenches; strong debugging skills.
• Proficiency with version control (Git, Subversion) and scripting for automation (Tcl, Python, Perl, etc.).
• Clear written and verbal communication for technical documentation and customer interaction.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with SIGINT, EW, radar, lidar, communications, or image processing.
• Experience with MicroBlaze, PicoBlaze, ARM Cortex-A9, or bringing up Linux/RTOS on FPGA SoCs (Yocto).
• Familiarity with lab equipment (oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers) and hardware/PCB bring-up.
• Experience with OpenVPX, VITA49, digital receivers/transmitters, and CMMC/cloud development practices.
• Modeling in MATLAB/Simulink/Python and translating high-level models to FPGA implementations; experience with C/C++ embedded code.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or ECE is required; a master's degree is preferred.

About the Company

Company: Beacon Industries

Technology/engineering company focused on analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design and custom IC layout (SerDes, SRAM, high-speed interfaces), using Synopsys/Cadence EDA tools for design, simulation, verification, and silicon validation.