Senior Firmware Engineer (Onsite)

Are you an experienced Firmware Design Engineer looking for exciting and challenging opportunities?

We are seeking Senior Firmware Engineer(s) at the following sites:

• Aberdeen, Maryland
• Fort Wayne, Indiana
• McKinney, Texas

We have openings supporting programs for our US military and various international customers, keeping the world safe from foreign threats.  As a Senior 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. This position may require occasional business-related travel.

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.

Are you up for a challenge?

The Senior Firmware Engineer will be a technical leader for the firmware engineering team with a thorough understanding of the following areas:

• 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

Excellent growth opportunities.

These are exciting and challenging opportunities with tremendous growth potential leading to an IPT Lead or a Principal Engineer. These are immediate career growth opportunities for experienced Firmware Engineers.  Join our dynamic, diverse, and rapidly growing team.

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in digital hardware design and verification, or minimum 3 years with a related Master’s degree
• Successfully 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.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a US security clearance
• U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations. Prefer a bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer or Electrical and Computer Science from an accredited educational institution
• Team lead of engineers as a cost account manager using earned value management
• Proposal support, cost, and schedule estimation, and generating technical documentation related to contract deliverable items
• Embedded processors and SoC development for FPGA devices
• FPGA design implementation with VHDL design language
• Designed for applications that utilized red/black separation and redundancy concepts.
• OpenVPX technology including VITA standards
• MATLAB and Simulink for digital signal processing designs that use floating and fixed-point numbers.
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, and presentation} and ability to effectively communicate with leadership
• Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, or Cadence Simulation Tools
• Xilinx, Intel (Altera), Lattice, or Microsemi (Actel) FPGA Development tools
• TCL, Perl, or Python for Scripting
• FPGA Development with Linux Operating System
• Defense and/or Aerospace industry applications

Additional Information

• This position requires a U.S. Person who is eligible to obtain any required Export Authorization.
• Relocation assistance available provided final candidate meets eligibility requirements
• Employee Referral Award Eligibility: Only employees currently within RMD and RI&S have the potential to receive a referral award for submitting a referral to RMD and RI&S roles. ALL eligibility requirements must be met to receive the referral award.
   

Raytheon Technologies is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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.