Staff FPGA Engineer

Job Title

Staff FPGA Engineer

Role Summary

VTG is hiring a Staff FPGA Engineer to support a defense customer in Reston, VA. The role focuses on rapid development, testing, and implementation of FPGA designs on Xilinx SoC/FPGA platforms for signal processing and high-speed communications.

Work includes design, hands-on board bring-up, verification, and ensuring designs meet system-level requirements and safety/performance standards. Position is contingent upon contract award.

Experience Level

Senior — requires 12+ years of professional FPGA design and development experience.

Responsibilities

The engineer will work across the full design lifecycle and support integration, testing, and deployment.

• Participate in requirements, concept, RTL design, verification, and hands-on board bring-up.
• Develop and test FPGA designs on Xilinx SoC/FPGA platforms.
• Integrate third-party vendor IP and ensure proper integration and validation.
• Implement interfaces and signal types such as high-speed communications (Ethernet, serial) and analog/digital signal processing.
• Ensure designs trace back to top-level system requirements and meet relevant safety and performance standards.
• Debug and resolve issues at the HDL and system level during testing and bring-up.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and qualifications.

• 12+ years professional FPGA design and development experience.
• Proficient in VHDL and/or Verilog and HDL-based debugging.
• Experience with Xilinx SoC platforms (highly preferred).
• Familiarity with FPGA toolflows such as Vivado, ModelSim, or Quartus.
• Experience with SoC hardware bring-up, preferably ARM-based systems.
• Experience implementing high-speed interfaces and signal-processing functions.
• Ability to perform hands-on board testing and resolve system-level bugs.
• Active U.S. Secret clearance and ability to maintain it.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience designing for safety-critical functions.
• Experience with FPGA interfaces and high-speed buses.
• Low-level firmware experience (C/C++) for bring-up and test.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field is specified.

About the Company

Company: VTG

Headquarters: Reston, VA, USA

VTG is a defense-focused engineering and technology firm providing hardware and software development, systems integration, FPGA and embedded systems design, testing, and technical services to U.S. government and defense customers.