Senior FPGA Engineer

Job Title

Senior FPGA Engineer

Role Summary

Lead and provide technical and programmatic guidance for microelectronics programs using FPGA design solutions, supporting design, verification, fabrication, packaging, trust, and assurance for advanced systems and sensors. Act as technical lead for design, development, testing, fielding, and sustainment of FPGA-based systems and perform engineering assessments and strategic planning for government customers.

Estimated salary range: $86,900–$198,000 per year (USD).

Experience Level

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

Responsibilities

Lead technical execution and provide expert engineering judgment across FPGA and microelectronics efforts. Typical responsibilities include:

• Lead FPGA design projects from requirements through production, including architecture, implementation, verification, and acceptance testing.
• Provide programmatic and technical advice to government clients; perform technical assessments and engineering evaluations.
• Develop hardware design specifications, block diagrams, state diagrams, and schematics to meet customer requirements.
• Perform functional analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition.
• Lead verification efforts, create and use test benches, and integrate embedded software where applicable.
• Support fabrication, packaging, technology-node access, and sustainment activities for microelectronics systems.
• Ensure design integrity, security, trust, and assurance practices are applied to FPGA systems.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills, clearance, and experience:

• 7+ years of FPGA development and research across multiple device families and platforms.
• Proven experience with Hardware Description Languages (HDL) and embedded design for SoC or FPGA-based systems.
• Experience implementing HDL in systems with or without microcontrollers and developing verification methodologies and test benches.
• Familiarity with hardware and design security concepts and embedded software interaction.
• Knowledge of alternatives/tools for FPGA development such as HDL Coder or Xilinx System Generator.
• Ability to develop hardware specifications and execute circuit-level design, implementation, verification, formal acceptance, and production tests.
• Ability to lead hardware design activities, including generating architecture plans, functional block diagrams, and schematics.
• Active or obtainable Secret security clearance required; candidates will undergo a security investigation.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience performing verification for Defense microelectronics systems and familiarity with a variety of IP block types.
• Experience with Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) and continuous integration development practices.

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 Engineering or Computer Engineering is a plus.

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.