Our client, a leading federal defense contractor is seeking an ASIC / FPGA Embedded Engineer to be a member of or lead a cross functional team dedicated to the development of military-grade electronics and underwater acoustic systems.

Duties and Tasks:

- Design, implement, simulate, and test firmware components for FPGA-based systems
- Define FPGA timing, pinout, and placement constraints; review synthesis and timing reports; and address issues
- Design, implement, and unit test firmware components for microcontroller-based systems
- Integrate and test firmware on target hardware
- Design and simulate digital circuits
- Develop test systems including test software applications
- Generate system/software/interface requirements, detailed design, and build documentation
- Document and present trade studies, analyses, test results and status to the team
- Research, identify, and evaluate new technologies

Required Skills

- Must be US Citizen due to government requirement
- Must be able and willing to obtain a government clearance
- Bachelor-s degree in a STEM field, plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

- Experience with the engineering development life cycle, including concept, requirements, design, implementation and test phases
- Experience writing technical documentation for embedded systems
- Strong background in FPGA design in VHDL, verification and timing closure
- Strong background implementing microcontroller firmware in C or C++
- Strong background in digital circuit design
- Experience with Linux and embedded operating systems
- Proficiency with memory technologies, voltage regulation devices, ADCs, DACs, and common low-level communication interfaces
- Proficiency with common lab equipment such as o-scopes, multi-meters, power supplies, and soldering

Experience with the following a plus:

- OrCAD Capture, Quartus, LabWindows/CVI, Git
- Soft-core processors (Nios and/or MicroBlaze)
- ARM-based microcontrollers
- National Instruments data acquisition systems