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Senior Specialist, Electrical Engineering (FPGA Design Engineer)

Palm Bay, Florida, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Full Time On-site

Summary

Job Description

Responsible for developing FPGA Firmware in the Space & Mission Systems (SMS) Segment of L3Harris. The SMS Segment provides critical mission solutions for space and airborne domains with defense, intelligence, and commercial applications. As an FPGA design engineer, you will be directly involved in one or more of the areas of design, integration, and test of advanced satellite communication links, digital telemetry, signal processing, and/or encryption technology.


Essential Functions:

  • Support proposal efforts in the estimation and planning of end-to-end FPGA development.
  • Decompose and allocate system and box-level requirements to FPGA requirements and specifications.
  • Architect solutions against requirements and implement those solutions in various FPGA technologies or platforms.
  • Design Med/High Complexity Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) starting from SystemDe-composition and completing through System Integration and Test
  • Follow, enforce, and refine consistent firmware development processes across FPGA designs.
  • Synthesize designs to targeted technologies and perform constraint driven place and route and analysis.
  • Generate design review and deliverable documentation including review packages, block diagrams, interface control documents, and test plans/procedures.
  • Conduct design peer reviews at various phases in the development process.
  • Ensure FPGA simulations verify performance, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly.
  • Generate verification plans and procedures to validate hardware.
    Perform hardware testing and debug.
  • Ability to obtain a Secret clearance

Qualifications:

  • Bachelors of Science Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering with 6 years' professional experience or a Graduate degree and a minimum of 4 years' relevant professional experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years' of prior related experience
  • 6+ years experience using VHDL/Verilog
  • 6+ years experience with and understanding of AMD Xilinx FPGA architectures 
  • 3+ Years of professional experience with Xilinx Vivado
  • 3+ years experience performing timing closure, optimizing FPGA resource utilization
  • 3+ years experience debugging down to the hardware level, using Signal Generators, Logic Analyzers, Digital Oscilloscopes and Embedded FPGA Debugging tools

Preferred Additional Skills:

  • FPGA development and Verification Vendor tool suites: Xilinx ISE, Xilinx Vivado, Xilinx Vitis, Microchip Libero, Mentor Graphics ModelSim/Questa, Synopsis Synplicity
  • Version Control tools such as GIT, SVN, CVS.
  • Experience with advanced verification environments such as UVM & OVM
  • Experience using System Verilog for verification 
  • Build FPGAs with difficult timing and/or difficult routing constraints
  • Develop FPGA requirements and specifications
  • FPGA Device Selection and supporting the Pinout on a new CCA Design
  • High speed memory interfaces and/or high speed SERDES interfaces
  • Analog to Digital (AD) and Digital to Analog (DA) interfaces
  • Experience with AXI streaming and control buses
  • Possess the ability to interface with Hardware, Software, and Systems Engineering
  • Self-motivated individual with the ability to work and communicate effectively within a development group
  • Bring-up of advanced FPGA products such as SoC, MPSoC, RFSoC, ACAP, etc.
  • Digital Circuit Card Design: Schematic Entry, PCB/PWB Layout/Route, Signal Integrity Analysis.

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About L3 Harris

L3 Harris

L3 Harris is one of the largest defense and aerospace companies in the United States, delivering advanced technologies that support missions across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains. The company develops communications systems, space payloads, intelligence platforms, electronic warfare capabilities, missile defense technologies, and mission-critical sensors used by the U.S. military, intelligence community, and allied nations around the world.

For job seekers, L3Harris offers opportunities across engineering, software development, cybersecurity, space systems, manufacturing, intelligence, program management, and mission operations. The company is especially attractive to veterans, cleared professionals, and engineers who want to work on advanced technologies that directly support national security. With programs spanning tactical communications, ISR platforms, satellite systems, and defense electronics, employees have the opportunity to contribute to some of the military’s most important capabilities.

Unlike companies focused on a single mission area, L3Harris operates across a diverse portfolio of defense technologies, providing employees exposure to a broad range of programs and technical disciplines. Teams work on everything from secure communications and autonomous systems to space-based sensors and electronic warfare platforms, creating opportunities for both specialization and long-term career growth within the organization.

As governments continue investing in modernization, space capabilities, resilient communications, and advanced sensing technologies, L3Harris remains one of the most important employers in the defense industry. For professionals seeking a mission-driven career with strong growth opportunities, technical challenges, and direct impact on global security, L3Harris continues to stand out as a leading destination in aerospace and defense.

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