Senior FPGA Engineer

Position would require the candidate to be a W2 employee of Donatech.

US Citizenship Required.

Active Secret Clearance Required.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to all applicable Client Engineering Development and Quality processes, procedures, instructions and guidelines.
• Participate in Agile team meetings and planning activities, as required to support programs covered by this work plan.
• Requirements, design and verification of FPGA solutions.
• Integration of developed FPGA on target hardware units.
• Supporting peer reviews and certification analysis activities.
• Peer reviewing FPGA development artifacts.
• Management of change request and task assignments through Jira.

Qualifications – Required

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience.
• An active U.S. government issued Final Secret Security Clearance is required.
• A minimum of 3 years professional experience in FPGA development, ASIC front end, or related areas.
• Proficient in VHDL/Verilog for FPGA/ASIC design and implementation.
• Experience in digital circuit architecture, design, resource tradeoffs, timing analysis, and timing closure.
• Familiarity with FPGA platforms such as AMD/Xilinx, Altera, Microchip, or others, and associated toolchains (e.g., Vivado, Quartus, Libero).
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills for FPGA/ASIC systems.
• Proficiency with revision control concepts and tools (e.g., Git, Subversion).

Qualifications – Preferred

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills with the ability to work in a collaborative environment.
• Experience with high-speed digital interfaces and protocols (e.g., DDR, PCIe, Ethernet).
• Familiarity with best-practice chip-level verification techniques and languages (e.g., constrained random, functional coverage, System Verilog).
• Experience in ASIC / FPGA lab validation using advanced laboratory equipment.
• Experience with Unix, scripting, C/C++, and/or Perl.