Apex Systems has an exciting Field Programmable Gate Array Firmware Engineer opportunity for our client,a global aerospace and security company! Ideal candidates will have at least 5 years of experience and understand how the many different pieces of a system work together. The products involve hundreds of people, processes, and systems, and you’ll help determine the ones that are relevant to your analysis and how they fit together.
If you or someone you know is interested in hearing more please send all resumes to aalburger@apexsystems.com for immediate consideration.
Length: Long Term Contract
Location: Moorestown, NJ or Syracuse, NY (onsite)
Clearance Level: Secret
Hourly Rate: Negotiable based on experience
The Work
As an FPGA Engineer you will;
• Perform complex FPGA firmware architecture and/or custom digital board designs.
• Design digital signal processing, messaging, control, and high-speed communications.
• Interface and collaborate with program leadership and teammates on a regular basis.
• Estimate, break down and plan work for their firmware team.
• Take a high DSP algorithm for a radar system and break it into small pieces and coach junior engineers.
Why Join Us
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren't focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we're happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life both in and outside of work.
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering or equivalent engineering/technical bachelors degree and 7+ years of relevant work experience
• Prior technical leadership experience
• FPGA architecture and design, with applied knowledge of AMD(Xilinx) and/or Intel(Altera) FPGA devices and their associated application environments.
Digital board design of complex mixed signal boards to support FPGAs.
• Possess technical expertise to implement designs without appreciable direction.
• Successful candidate may develop technical solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity applied to FPGA design and/or board design.
• Working knowledge of digital signal processing functions
• Candidate must be able to obtain & maintain a Secret security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship
Desired Skills:
• Strong working knowledge of digital signal processing functions, specific to radar and electronic warfare capabilities, including digital receivers and exciters.
• Extensive VHDL firmware programming capability, and having applied that knowledge on an FPGA device (Xilinx, Intel, Microsemi). Having utilized Xilinx Vivado, Intel Quartus, or Microsemi Libero development platforms to successfully build and test an executable hardware implementation of code which they have written.
• Use of the Mentor Questa HDL simulator, including UVM verification techniques.
• Experience with MATLAB modeling is a plus.
• Higher level code development, including Nvidia CUDA, OpenCL, Simulink HDL Coder, and Xilinx System Generator are also a plus.
• The candidate should possess excellent oral, written, and presentation skills.
• Successful candidate should possess the ability to efficiently perform on multiple tasks simultaneously and guide the successful completion of major programs and may function in a project leadership role.
• Exercises considerable latitude in determining technical objectives, using current technology such as FPGAs, Microprocessors, DSPs, and/or Interface Controllers.
Thank you,
Amanda Alburger
Professional Recruiter - Applications
aalburger@apexsystems.com
