ASIC & FPGA Design Engineer Sr Stf - E5
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 23, 2026. Lockheed Martin scores A on the Alion truth index.
Standard Job Description
Join Our Team as a ASIC/FPGA Design Engineer Sr Staff where you will work on the development of a sophisticated state-of-the-art avionics product in a world class Integrated Product Development environment.
Location: This position does not support teleworking; the selected candidate will be located near our Lockheed Martin Space facility in:
You will be working a flexible 9x80 schedule in the office full-time.
The information below reflects the standard job description for this position:
Develops, designs, verifies, and documents Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) development. Determines architecture design, logic design, and system simulation. Assignments include the analysis of all aspects from high-level design to synthesis, place and route, and timing and power utilization. Typically uses specialized equipment to establish operation data, conduct experimental tests, and evaluate results.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience in the design of FPGA and/or ASIC devices.
- HDL programming experience with VHDL, Verilog, and/or SystemVerilog.
- Willing and able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance, thus US Citizenship is required for this position.
- Equivalent experience/combined education.
- Acitve Secret Clearance.
Desired Skills
- Bachelor of Science or higher from an accredited college in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
- Understand the basics of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) implementation, and have the ability to implement a defined module or part of an algorithm.
- Experience with DSP methodologies (Nyquist sampling, FFT/IFFT, digital filtering, FIR filters)
- Familiar with MATLAB, C/C++, and VHDL/Verilog DSP implementation.
- Understanding Fixed vs. Floating-Point processing.
- Experience or coursework in the design of FPGA and/or ASIC devices.
- Experience in ASIC / FPGA life cycle (architecture, design, simulation, verification, validation, integration & test).
- Knowledge of Forward Error Correction (FEC), interleaving/de-interleaving, hopping/dehopping, modulation/de-modulation, channelizers and reconstructors.
- Experience with ADC and DAC implementation.
- Experience or knowledge of MS Project, JIRA.
- Experience leading projects of multiple engineers, managing schedules. prioritizing work and actively communicating with internal or external stakeholders.
- Knowledge of space-grade/qualified FPGAs and ASICs.
- Experience with Earned Value Management System (EVMS).
- Experience in 5G and/or LTE is a plus.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers.
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $166900.00 - $309900.00
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The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.