Senior FPGA Engineer

Senior FPGA Engineer

Job Category: Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Continental US

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CACI's Mastodon Design team in Rochester, NY specializes in designing and building hardware and software to meet our customers’ next requirement. We focus on offering devices that can be fielded immediately to meet the mission needs that lie directly ahead. Size, weight, power, and packaging are of paramount importance in everything we design and build. Our expertise allows us to rapidly provide these solutions in specialized electronic/mechanical design, embedded & application-level software, reverse engineering & protocol analysis, and RF signals and communications systems. U.S. Citizenship required.  Successful candidates must be willing and able to obtain a security clearance.

We are seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to work on the development of our wireless product line.  This role requires understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of designing FPGA solutions for RF products. An ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience designing such solutions in a commercial environment with aggressive time-scales. 

Qualifications:

• BS in EE or similar field
• 7+ years of relevant experience 
• Ability to obtain and maintain minimally a Secret clearance 
• In-depth understanding of HDL coding in VHDL, Verilog and System Verilog 
• Pin and Timing Constraints management 
• Demonstrated ability to debug complex FPGA designs in system 
• Programming FPGA devices using Python, C/C++, MATLAB/Simulink and VHDL 

Nice to have Qualifications:

• Ability to implement and debug complex high-speed architectures like JESD204C, 2.5G, 10G, 40G, 100G Ethernet. 
• Ability to implement and debug VITA-49 transport layer in a system. 
• Communications systems, associated algorithms and their design. This includes an understanding of RF filters, signal modulation/demodulation, channel equalization/channel estimation, channel coding (FEC), RF signal acquisition, RF frequency control (AFC), RF gain control (AGC) 
• DSP baseband signal processing and task scheduling 
• DSP Peripheral programming and control 
• Demonstrated ability in bringing up custom hardware with FPGAs or SoCs 
• Experience with SoC’s such as Ultrascale +, Zynq 7000, Agilex, etc. 
• Simulation experience – Understanding of abstracted SystemVerilog classes and packages 

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What You Can Expect:

 

A culture of integrity.

At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation.

 

An environment of trust.

CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers - every day. You’ll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to robust learning resources to make your ambitions a reality.

A focus on continuous growth.

Together, we will advance our nation's most critical missions, build on our lengthy track record of business success, and find opportunities to break new ground — in your career and in our legacy. 

 

Your potential is limitless. So is ours.

Learn more about CACI here.

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Pay Range: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific