FPGA Engineer(Mid-Sr.)

CACI International, Inc.
Rochester, NY
01 Dec 2024

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FPGA Engineer(Mid-Sr.)

Job Category: Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: None

Type of Travel: None

Mastodon Design 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 and pass a pre-employment drug screen.

We are seeking a Mid and/or 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.

Are you seeking a truly creative, challenging technical opportunity? This role requires the ability to effectively collaborate with a cross functional design team. Candidates must possess solid interpersonal as well as excellent oral and written communication skills.

You'll Bring These Qualifications:
  • BS in EE or similar field and 5 years+ experience designing DSP/FPGA solutions
  • Ability to obtain and maintain minimally a Secret clearance
  • HDL coding in VHDL or Verilog
  • Experience with SoC's such as Ultrascale +, Zynq 7000, Agilex, etc.
  • Experience with softcore processors such as Picoblaze, Microblaze, NIOS
  • Experience with DMA and AMBA Buses such as AXI/AXIS and ACP
  • Simulation experience - block level as well as system level
  • Pin and Timing Constraints management
  • Demonstrated ability to debug FPGA designs in the system
  • Demonstrated ability in bringing up custom hardware with FPGAs or SoCs

Any of These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
  • 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
  • Programming DSP and FPGA devices using C/C, MATLAB/Simulink and VHDL
  • Interpreting and implementing wireless standards such as 3GPP (LTE, WCDMA, GSM), IEEE 802.11 (WIFI) and IEEE 802.15 (UWB, Zigbee)
  • Mixed signal requirements including quantization bits, dynamic range (SFDR), power consumption and the design of baseband equivalent models. Experience designing solutions to overcome imperfections in the RF signal path
  • TI Code Composer Studio or similar DSP IDE
  • Fixed-point DSP design

What We Can Offer You:

- We've been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post.- Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.- We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities.- We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solutions with the nation's highest priorities.- For over 55 years, the principles of CACI's unique, character-based culture have been the driving force behind our success.

Company Overview: At CACI, you will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact by providing information solutions and services in support of national security missions and government transformation for Intelligence, Defense, and Federal Civilian customers. CACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

As directed by Executive Order 14042, all current and newly hired employees are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by January 18, 2022 and provide proof of vaccination, except where they are legally entitled to an exemption/accommodation.