FPGA Developer, Senior

The Opportunity:
Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big-picture thinking to make an impact on national defense? You understand your client’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a client-focused engineering solution.

As a leader in electrical engineering and FPGA design, we’re looking for you to solve complex challenges and shape DoD research staff challenges. Your client will trust you to not only to help test, design, and develop specific algorithms in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), but also evolve them with advanced technology solutions. You’ll share your expertise through leadership and mentoring of a hardware team focused on digital design and algorithm testing with FPGAs, while broadening your skillset into areas supporting radio frequency (RF) modeling and simulation. You will work alongside RF or radar modeling and simulation engineers and compare model outputs with corresponding hardware implementations to provide validation of threat representations. Join our team and create the future of EMSO in evolving National Security objectives.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

6+ years of experience in digital design through HDL and schematic layout
Experience using AMD Vitis and related tools
Experience with Digital Signal Processing mathematics and implementing in synthesizable HDL
Experience with benchtop equipment, including Oscilloscope, Spectrum Analyzer, Arbitrary Waveform Generator, and Vector Signal Generator, and their various operating modes
Experience with RF signal propagation chain configurations, and scientific analysis software, such as MATLAB
Knowledge of RADAR and Electromagnetic Warfare, including EA and Electronic Support (ES) concepts
Knowledge of commercial RF and digital component and assembly distributers for rapid prototyping purposes
Knowledge of wideband RF signal acquisition and generation concepts, and associated development processes with FPGAs
Secret clearance
Bachelor’s degree in an Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering field

Nice If You Have:

Experience with electrical circuit design and fabrication processes with printed circuit board development
Experience with other tools for FPGA development, such as Intel Quartus
Experience with EDA tools for HDL and RTL simulation, including ModelSim and Questa, Xcelium, VCS, or Aldec
Knowledge of embedded Linux and RTOS development, including U-Boot, yocto, BitBake, and OpenEmbedded, or device tree components
TS/SCI clearance
Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.

Compensation

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Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $75,600.00 to $172,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

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FPGA Developer – Senior

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