Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RTX, through Collins Aerospace, develops advanced aerospace and defense solutions, including vision systems for commercial and military aircraft. The Senior Principal FPGA Design Engineer will lead the design, verification, integration, and certification of complex FPGA firmware for camera systems, heads-up displays, and helmet-mounted displays, while overseeing and mentoring less experienced designers.
Responsibilities
- Development of complex FPGA designs
- Define and capture requirements for new firmware designs using enterprise tools such as Jama
- Create conceptual designs which include block level architecture, clock and reset distribution strategies, and bandwidth/latency analyses
- Create detailed designs of the FPGA firmware at the register-transfer level with VHDL
- Perform RTL synthesis and implementation using FPGA tools such as Vivado
- Support board level integration of the FPGA firmware
- Create verification artifacts for FPGA development using VHDL, SystemVerilog, and UVM
- Present FPGA firmware design to certification authority
- Oversee efforts and train less experienced designers
Skills
- U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract
- * Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience **or** an Advanced Degree in a related field
- * Advanced FPGA Development and Verification Experience
- * FPGA design for video or image processing
- * Experience with Mentor Graphics Questasim
- * Proficiency in VHDL
- * System Verilog and UVM experience for FPGA Verification
- * Experience working in Linux/Unix
- * Excellent hands-on laboratory skills in testing and verifying FPGA designs in hardware, and familiarity with a wide range of test equipment
- * Aerospace Background
- * Experience with aerospace certification of designs including familiarity with RTCA DO-254 is highly desired
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
- Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Optional coverages you can buy: pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, and ID theft protection
- Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
- Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
- Adoption Assistance
- Autism Benefit
- Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
- Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
- Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
- Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
- Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
- Flexible spending accounts
- Flexible work schedules
- Employee assistance program
- Employee Scholar Program
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- Holidays
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