Senior FPGA Engineer

Job Title

Senior FPGA Engineer

Role Summary

Senior FPGA Engineer responsible for designing, verifying, and integrating FPGA-based digital signal processing and control for advanced RF transmitter systems. The role works on FPGA circuit card assemblies, hardware bring-up, and hardware/software interface definition within an engineering team supporting RF products.

Experience Level

Senior — typically 8+ years of relevant FPGA or RF system engineering experience.

Responsibilities

Key day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Define and document functional requirements for FPGA subsystems.
• Design, simulate, and implement FPGA-based digital signal processing (e.g., baseband processing).
• Develop FPGA-based circuit card assemblies using schematic capture and deliver design artifacts.
• Build and test hardware prototypes using oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and logic analyzers.
• Coordinate and specify software tasks related to hardware–software interfaces (e.g., Linux host / PCIe endpoint).
• Perform timing closure, synthesis, and implementation verification for FPGA builds.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience; preferred items listed separately.

• Proficiency with Xilinx FPGA design flows, including ISE and Vivado; strong VHDL design skills.
• Experience across FPGA design flow: simulation, synthesis, implementation, and timing closure.
• Hands-on experience with Xilinx 7-series devices.
• Expertise in FPGA real-time DSP algorithms: decimation/interpolation filters, fractional delay, asynchronous sample-rate conversion, NCOs, Hilbert transforms, FFTs, and waveform generation.
• Knowledge of FPGA hardware interfaces for RF sampling and waveform generation using A/D and D/A converters.
• Experience with FPGA-based high-speed interfaces such as PCIe and DDR3 memory controllers.
• Strong understanding of hardware–software interaction and verification on Linux hosts and PCIe endpoints.

Nice-to-have:

• MATLAB/Simulink modeling and converting high-level models to FPGA implementations.
• Experience with RF system design for high-power or high-speed communications.
• C programming and ability to develop simple Linux test applications for FPGA verification.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering. The posting specifies 8+ years of relevant experience and requires an active DoD-issued Secret clearance.

About the Company

Company: Clearance Jobs

Headquarters: Arlington, VA, USA

Clearance Jobs is an online job marketplace specializing in careers requiring security clearances, connecting cleared professionals with employers in defense, intelligence, aerospace, and government contracting sectors.