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Position would require the candidate to be a W2 employee of Donatech. US Citizenship Required. Active Secret Clearance Required.

We are looking for a talented FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) design lead with industry experience in advanced signal processing techniques and/or Electronic Warfare techniques including Electronic Support and Electronic Attack.  We design, develop, and test advanced electronic warfare and multi-function systems.  Our client development efforts include the whole lifecycle of designs from proposals, requirement definition, coding, simulation, synthesis, place and route, verification testing, and system support.  This position would focus on the FPGA design and leading FPGA design teams in coding, simulation, synthesis, place and route, and verification testing aspects.  We are looking for an engineer who enjoys challenging work with a team of talented engineers and can work well both with an interdisciplinary team and as an individual contributor. 

Areas of expected technical experience or education include:

Expertise in simulation, synthesis, and placement software tools such as ModelSim, Synplicity, Xilinx Vivado / Client and/or Altera Quartus development tool sets.

Expertise in laboratory debug techniques using signal generators, digital oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, BERTS, and other complex measurement devices.

• Expertise with timing closure in large FPGAs.
• Experience implementing Electronic Support or Attack signal processing.
• Experience implementing complex Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms in FPGA devices.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors (Masters preferred) degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• 5+ years FPGA design experience on Digital Signal Processing designs.
• Experience with digital communications architectural design.
• Expertise in either VHDL (preferred) or Verilog hardware development languages.

Experience implementing Electronic Warfare (EW) algorithms (either Electronic Sense (ES) or Electronic Attack (EA)) in FPGAs in systems with Electronically steered antennas.

Experience with systems in high doppler effects.

Preferred Skills:

Simulation, synthesis, and placement software tools such as ModelSim, Synplicity, Xilinx Vivado / Client and/or Altera Quartus development tool sets.

Laboratory debug techniques using signal generators, digital oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, BERTS, and other complex measurement devices.

• Implementation of complex Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms in FPGA devices.
• Experience with timing closure in large FPGAs.
• Experience with s ignal detection and identification.
• Implementation of signal processing techniques.
• Generation of arbitrary waveform data files.
• Familiarity with code revision management tools such as Git/Clearcase.
• Familiarity with C/C++/C# and Matlab/Simulink.

Donatech is an EEO Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.