{"id":1609524,"url":"https://alion.io/job/l3harris-technologies-fpga-firmware-electrical-engineer","title":"FPGA Firmware Electrical Engineer","company":{"id":177017,"name":"L3Harris Technologies","domain":"l3harris.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/l3harris-technologies","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":26,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":18,"computed_at":"2026-10-24T06:02:35Z"}},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Fort Wayne, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":104000,"max_usd":189000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":1396},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Siemens QuestaSim","optional":false},{"name":"Synplify Pro","optional":false},{"name":"VHDL","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-16T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-16","last_verified_at":"2026-10-24T07:53:40Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":38,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":38},"description":"Job Title: FPGA Firmware Electrical Engineer\nJob Code:44394\nJob Location:Fort Wayne, IN\nJob Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off\nJob Description:\nThis self-motivated individual will participate on a team to develop FPGA Firmware in the Space & Mission Systems (SMS) Segment of L3Harris. The SMS Segment provides critical mission solutions for space and airborne domains with defense, intelligence, and commercial applications. As an FPGA design engineer, you will be directly involved in one or more of the areas of design, integration, and test of advanced satellite communication links, digital telemetry, signal processing, and/or encryption technology.\nEssential Functions:\nDecompose and allocate system and box-level requirements to FPGA requirements and specifications\nAssist in architecting solutions against requirements and implement those solutions in various FPGA technologies or platforms\nFollow, enforce, and refine consistent firmware development processes across FPGA designs\nSynthesize designs to targeted technologies and perform constraint driven place and route and analysis\nGenerate design review and deliverable documentation including review packages, block diagrams, interface control documents, and test plans/procedures\nConduct design peer reviews at various phases in the development process\nEnsure FPGA simulations verify performance, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly\nGenerate procedures to validate hardware, and perform hardware testing and debug\nAbility to obtain a US Security Clearance\nQualifications:\nBachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.\nPreferred Additional Skills:\n2+ years professional experience using VHDL\nProfessional experience with the FPGA design process and the tools used to generate FPGA designs\nExperience generating procedures to validate hardware, and perform hardware testing and debug\nActive Secret (or higher) security clearance is preferred, but not required\nBuild FPGAs with difficult timing and/or difficult routing constraints\nDevelop FPGA requirements and specifications\nHigh speed memory interfaces and/or high speed SERDES interfaces\nAnalog to Digital (AD) and Digital to Analog (DA) interfaces\nExperience with vendor tool suites such as Xilinx, Microsemi, or Intel\nFamiliarity with Questasim simulator and Synopsys Synplify/Synplify Pro synthesis\nPossess the ability to interface with Hardware, Software, and Systems Engineering\nVersion control tools (subversion, git, etc.)\nSelf-motivated individual with the ability to work and communicate effectively within a development group","description_format":"text","description_chars":2816,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Government","Military","Science & Engineering"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T20:06:34Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-06T04:04:59Z"},{"event":"reopen","at":"2026-10-06T07:26:57Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 5","filings_12m":5,"filings_prev_12m":7,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":107500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":23,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.657,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":38,"expected_fill_days":18,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-24T06:02:35Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/l3harris-technologies-fpga-firmware-electrical-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/l3harris-technologies-fpga-firmware-electrical-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-24T16:36:39Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":24020,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-25T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":177017},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=177017"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fl3harris-technologies-fpga-firmware-electrical-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fl3harris-technologies-fpga-firmware-electrical-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fl3harris-technologies-fpga-firmware-electrical-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/l3harris-technologies-fpga-firmware-electrical-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fl3harris-technologies-fpga-firmware-electrical-engineer"}]}