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Job Title: Specialist, Electrical Engineering - VHDL/FPGA Engineer

Job Code: 45744

Job Location: Mason, OH – On Site

Job Schedule: 9/80 - - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

L3Harris Sensors in Cincinnati Ohio is currently seeking a talented FPGA engineer with experience developing VHDL. You will get the opportunity to participate in FPGA developments including requirements, system design, detailed design, and hardware integration on cutting-edge systems. The product portfolio at L3Harris Sensors provides the opportunity to work at ultra-high speed, ultra-large format infrared cameras targeting a wide variety of defense applications. As an established pioneer in military/defense technology, Sensors is a first-rank engineering and production company.

Essential Functions:

Requires proficient knowledge of job area. May have practical knowledge of project management.

Proficient knowledge of FPGAs and VHDL design including a minimum of 4 years of direct experience in:

ModelSim/Questa or equivalent logic simulation tools

MATLAB/Simulink for algorithm development

Standard streaming and memory mapped interfaces (Avalon, AXI, etc.)

FPGA vendor tools (Altera, AMD/Xilinx)

Python for automating tasks (FPGA builds, simulations, etc.)

Product Development

Design, implementation, verification, and integration of VHDL components.

Effective communication skills with other engineering teams and customers.

Participate in VHDL peer reviews.

Analysis of component synthesis, timing, and clock domain crossings.

Technical presentations including internal design reviews.

Ability to obtain a US Secret security clearance.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

Proficiency in digital hardware design, interfaces, and architecture:

NAND, NOR, and DDR memory interfaces

GigE Vision, Camera Link, CoaXpress, HDSDI, SDI

High Speed Ethernet (1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 100GbE)

High Speed Serializers and Deserializers (SERDES)

LVDS, RS-422, I2C, SPI

Interfacing with custom ASICs

Understanding of project/task management and technical estimating

Facilitate continuous improvement activities

Working knowledge of manufacturing, assembly, and test processes

Experience in design for test, quality, reliability, manufacturability, and EMC is a plus.

Experience in Agile Scrum development methods is a plus.

Experience in writing VHDL that interfaces with a microcontroller.

Experience with Universal Verification Methodology.

Experience in writing timing constraints for FPGA designs.

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