Senior Specialist, FPGA Engineering

Location: Carlsbad, California, US; onsite role

Salary: $106,500–$197,500 annually, with the final offer varying by experience and geographic location.

Company

hirify.global develops end-to-end defense technology solutions connecting space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains for national security missions.

What you will do

• Design advanced wireless digital communication and electronic warfare systems across the full FPGA lifecycle, from proposals and requirements through coding, simulation, synthesis, place and route, and verification testing.
• Develop FPGA functions for forward error correction, modulation, demodulation, digital filters, networking, and digital signal processing.
• Implement and integrate industry-standard interfaces including Ethernet, SPI, UART, SDRAM, DDR3, JESD, and PCIe.
• Perform FPGA verification through simulation and unit testing.
• Collaborate with engineering teams while contributing independently to challenging design work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 6 years of prior experience, graduate degree with 4 years of prior experience, or at least 10 years of related experience in lieu of a degree.
• Active US Secret security clearance required.
• Security-clearance eligibility requires US citizenship.

Nice to have

• VHDL or Verilog development experience, with VHDL preferred.
• Experience implementing complex modem or DSP circuits in FPGA devices; equivalent ASIC design experience is applicable.
• Experience with modem FPGA development, discrete-time DSP, digital communications, high-speed DSP data paths, digital filters, FFTs, and error-correction codes such as Turbo or LDPC.
• Experience with ModelSim, Synplicity, Xilinx Vivado or ISE, and/or Altera Quartus for simulation, synthesis, and placement.
• HLS experience and laboratory debugging with digital scopes, logic analyzers, BERTs, and other complex measurement devices.
• FPGA design using high-speed serial interfaces of 3+ Gbps; experience with software/FPGA interfaces, memory controllers, and high-speed interfaces.
• Experience with testbench architectures and working knowledge of Matlab, SystemC, C, and/or C++.
• Familiarity with Git or Bitbucket and JIRA.

Culture & Benefits

• 9/80 schedule: work 9 of 14 days for 80 total hours, with every other Friday off.
• Benefits include health and disability insurance, 401(k) matching, flexible spending accounts, employee assistance, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays.
• Benefits and programs may vary by hire date, schedule type, and applicable collective bargaining agreements.
• Employment includes background checks and, where permitted by law, pre-employment substance-abuse testing.
• The position is subject to security investigations and eligibility requirements for access to classified information.