Senior Firmware Engineer (Onsite)

Arinc International Of Canada Ulc - Largo, FL

Part-time,Full-time - Senior

Largo, FL

10,001+ employees

About the position

As a Senior Firmware Engineer at Collins Aerospace, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team responsible for developing complex firmware solutions for military and international customers. This role involves creating architectures for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), System on Chip (SoC), and Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs), as well as conducting laboratory integration, testing, and evaluation of prototype hardware. You will play a critical role in ensuring the safety and security of systems that protect against foreign threats.

Responsibilities

• Develop system and/or FPGA architectures based on high level requirements
• Conduct target device trade studies, recommendations, and selection
• Generate firmware requirements based on the system architecture
• Create firmware documentation that describes the firmware architecture
• Design HDL based digital circuits that are structured and readable
• Build test benches to verify/test the HDL based design
• Generate constraints for target device
• Create scripts to automate build, integration, and test activities
• Verify target device functionality in laboratory environment

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in digital hardware design and verification
• Successfully completed several designs for various devices and applications
• Designed communication interfaces and bus standards (e.g., SPI, I2C, PCIe, UART, or Gb Ethernet)
• Tested and verified designs using logic analyzers, high-speed oscilloscopes, signal generators, and/or target device debugging tools
• 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 or in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Nice-to-haves

• Experience leading a team of engineers as an Account Control Manager using Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Provide proposal support, cost and schedule estimation, and generating technical documentation related to contract deliverable items
• Experience in embedded processors and SoC development for FPGA devices
• Experience in FPGA design implementation with VHDL design language
• Experience in designing applications that utilized red/black separation and redundancy concepts
• Experience in OpenVPX technology including VITA standards
• Experience in MATLAB and Simulink for digital signal processing designs that use floating and fixed-point numbers
• Experience in the following Simulation Tools: Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, or Cadence
• Experience in the following Development Tools: AMD (Xilinx), Intel (Altera), Lattice, or Microsemi (Actel) FPGA
• Experience in TCL, Perl, or Python for Scripting
• Experience in FPGA Development with Linux Operating System

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, 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
• This position is eligible for relocation assistance