FPGA Engineer
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The Opportunity:

The FPGA Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing complex FPGA solutions for various position, navigation, and timing applications. The role is ideal for an engineer with a strong foundation in digital design using VHDL and a practical understanding of broader electrical engineering principles. The engineer will create and integrate programmable logic architectures and components for digital signal processing, command and control, external hardware interfaces, high-speed communication protocols and more.

You'll work across disciplines to bring up new hardware platforms, develop and verify custom FPGA logic, and contribute to innovative systems critical to defense, aerospace, and assured PNT solutions.

Our Technology:

We're the world leader inResilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing (R-PNT)solutions that improve the reliability, performance, and safety of critical high-risk operations, even in GPS/GNSS denied environments. We provide virtually fail-safe GNSS and PNT solutions for military and commercial applications worldwide. We do pretty remarkable things!

How I will Contribute:

• Collaborate with hardware and software engineers to ensure FPGA designs are compatible with other components and systems.
• Analyze requirements, develop specifications, and create design documents. Contribute to technical reviews and system integration plans
• Support rapid prototyping of advanced PNT hardware, including board-level debugging and hardware validation.
• Work on embedded soft processors to implement software-based solutions within an FPGA
• Interpret and contribute to hardware schematics, interface control documents, and system diagrams.
• Collaborate with electrical, systems, and embedded software engineers to define and implement robust digital architectures.
• Work closely with the software team, ensuring interactions between FPGA and SW environments operate successfully
• Synthesize, place, and route designs using industry-standard FPGA toolchains (e.g., Xilinx Vivado, Altera Quartus)
• Architect and implement algorithms in FPGA or embedded processor environments
• Design and optimize high-performance digital circuits and systems using VHDL while adhering to industry best practices and digital design methodologies
• Conduct thorough functional and performance verification of FPGA designs through test bench simulation and hardware testing, identifying, and resolving any design issues or bottlenecks
• Troubleshoot and debug FPGA designs and provide solutions to technical problems.
• Participate in design reviews and provide feedback to improve design quality.
• An understanding of FPGA design flow including RTL design, verification, logic synthesis, prototyping, timing analysis, and lab debug
• Support lab testing efforts using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and custom test benches.
• Stay up to date with the latest technological advancements and trends in FPGA design.

What You Bring to Safran Federal Systems:

• Experience in FPGA development
  • 2+ Years with B.S. degree in Engineering or related technical degree
  • 0+ Years with M.S. degree in Engineering or related to the technical degree
• Technical knowledge of FPGA design principles, processes, and methodologies.
• Proficiency in Verilog, VHDL, and FPGA design tools, such as Vivado, Quartus, or Libero.
• Understanding of digital logic design, embedded systems, and FPGA architecture.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics and collaborate on hardware design.
• Experience with hardware prototyping platforms and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Demonstrated ability to debug hardware in a lab environment using standard instrumentation.
• Familiarity with FPGA development boards, such as Xilinx or Altera.
• Experience with FPGA simulation and verification tools, such as ModelSim or QuestaSim.
• Knowledge of Python and C/C++
• Knowledge of developing in a Linux based environment
• Knowledge of scripting (Python, Tcl, Bash) for build automation or test development
• Familiarity with revision control systems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to obtain a security clearance is preferred.
• Strong ethics and integrity.

• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.

About Safran Federal Systems:

Safran Federal Systems has been awarded as aWinner of the USA Today and Rochester Metro Area Top Workplaces 2025 Award.In 2022, Safran acquired Orolia, now Safran Trusted 4D, the world leader in Resilient PNT. At the intersection of critical infrastructure and national defense, Safran Trusted 4D solutions govern and protect the integrity of systems that shape the world. In early 2019, Orolia Defense & Security spun off as a separate entity from its parent company Orolia, with the mission of providing resilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) solutions and custom engineering services to U.S. Government agencies, U.S. Defense organizations, and their contractors.

In August of 2019, Orolia Defense & Security acquired Talen-X, a U.S. company specializing in advanced GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Simulation solutions and Interference, Detection, and Mitigation (IDM) technologies. Talen-X's portfolio was an ideal fit and has helped to enhance Safran FS's overall offerings. The acquisition enabled Talen-X's existing resources, operations, and capabilities to be scaled and accelerated to better support the warfighter. Read the press releasehere.

Safran Federal Systems operates as a proxy-regulated company, Free of Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI). As such, Safran FS Defense & Security is approved to work on the full spectrum of U.S. Government classified and unclassified projects and is positioned to support strategic partnerships in the development of key PNT technologies for the defense market.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Please note this description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice