PGS Worldwide is seeking an FPGA Verification Engineer in San Diego, CA for a one-year contract role supporting a leading aerospace & defense company.
The FPGA Verification Engineer will support digital logic verification for software-defined radio systems used in DoD communications programs. This role focuses on VHDL verification, FPGA product development, verification planning, simulation, test bench development, debugging, regression testing, and technical leadership for a small team of verification engineers.
Required Skills
- 12+ years of professional technical experience.
- Experience with VHDL design and verification methodologies for DoD communications systems.
- FPGA deployable product process experience, including requirements definition, conceptual design, detailed design, verification, and production release.
- Experience providing hands-on technical leadership and mentoring for verification engineers.
- Experience defining and maintaining digital logic design verification frameworks and architectures.
- Experience developing verification plans based on digital logic design requirements and specifications.
- Experience simulating and verifying FPGA logic designs and requirements.
- Experience performing system validation.
- Experience analyzing and debugging simulation failures.
- Ability to determine root causes of bugs and work with designers to resolve issues.
- Experience performing regression testing and generating verification metrics and reports.
- Experience with technical task management, forecasting, and schedule estimating.
- Ability to prioritize assignments according to program goals.
- Ability to communicate and coordinate effectively with cross-functional teams and program management.
- Experience developing functional tests, test benches, and bus functional models.
- Siemens Questa Simulator experience.
- U.S. citizenship required.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
Preferred Skills
- Active Secret clearance.
- Experience leading a team with varied skill and experience levels.
- Experience with cost and metric reporting.
- Experience with functional verification methodology using OSVVM across the full product life cycle.
- Experience with verification automation scripting in Linux using Perl, TCL, Bash, and Makefile.
- Experience using Siemens formal applications such as Lint, Inspect, and CDC.
- Ability to obtain special access program clearances.
- Experience with FPGA verification, VHDL, software-defined radio systems, DoD communications, digital logic design, verification architecture, simulation debugging, regression testing, test benches, bus functional models, and formal verification tools.
What You'll Do
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring for a team of 2-4 VHDL verification engineers.
- Define and maintain digital logic design verification frameworks and architectures for software-defined radio systems.
- Develop verification plans from digital logic design requirements and design specifications.
- Simulate and verify FPGA logic designs and requirements.
- Perform system validation.
- Analyze and debug simulation failures.
- Identify root causes of defects and coordinate with designers to resolve issues.
- Perform regression testing.
- Generate verification metrics and reporting.
- Support technical task management, forecasting, and schedule estimating.
- Operate in a team environment with 5-7 engineers.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams and program management to meet schedule and quality standards.
Work Schedule / Shift
- Hybrid role based in San Diego, CA.
- 9x80 A schedule.
- Full-time, 40 hours per week.
Pay
Job ID: 1385 Military veterans and transitioning military members are encouraged to apply to all PGS Worldwide positions. All of our jobs are military-friendly, and we work with leaders in Aerospace who rely on your military expertise to support mission-critical programs nationwide. As a Veteran Founded company, we know that the military has given you the skills and training you need to succeed in positions like this, and we want to support your success in the civilian sector however we can. We thank you for your service and humbly offer our own in return by helping you take your career to the next level.