Principal Firmware Engineer (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2024-11-04

Country:

United States of America

Location:

FL410: Largo FL MFG 7887 Bryan Dairy Road , Largo, FL, 33777 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market. You will be a member of a multi-disciplinary group of System, Hardware and Software Engineers.  We are a growing business developing new products in an aggressive and competitive market. The new designs are exciting and technically challenging. 

We are hiring Principal Firmware Engineers to support programs for our US military and various international customers, keeping the world safe from foreign threats.  As a Principal Firmware Engineer, you will be a member of an Integrated Program Team (IPT)) creating complex firmware solutions implemented in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), System on Chip (SOC), and Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs). Development activities may also include laboratory integration, test and evaluation, fault isolation of prototype hardware, and system qualification testing support. 

What You Will Do
    • Develop system and/or FPGA architectures based on high level requirements
    • Target device trade studies, recommendations, and selection
    • Generate firmware requirements based on the system architecture
    • Generate 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
    • Less than 10% business travel may be required

Qualifications You Must Have
    • Minimum 8 years of experience in digital hardware design and verification
    • Successfully have 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 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 12 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 

Qualifications We Prefer
    • 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

What We Offer
    • 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