FPGA Design Engineer, Mid Career

About Us:

By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, at Lockheed Martin we keep people safe and solve the world’s most complex challenges.

Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work. With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel development and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work.

At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility.

Your Mission is Ours.

About this program:

The space domain is essential to modern commerce, scientific discovery, and national defense. Maintaining space domain awareness in cislunar space – the volume of space between the Earth and the Moon – will require a leap-ahead in propulsion technology.

Come join Lockheed Martin’s Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program. Here, you will work with DARPA, NASA, and BWX Technologies to develop and demonstrate a nuclear-powered spacecraft.

This project will represent a rapid advancement in propulsion technology to benefit both exploration and national defense.

What does this role look like?

Please join us as an FPGA Design Engineer where you will work on the Command & Data Handling subsystem for spacecraft.

Key activities you will accomplish in this role:

• Support ASIC and FPGA development such as architecture, design, analysis, test and validation.

• Support technical reviews and be able to present to internal and external customers support an independent verification team verifying the design.

Typical mins for this role:

• 9 – 15 years of professional experience for this role.
• No security clearance is needed for this position but US Citizenship is required.

Join us. Let’s do Space!

BENEFITS OF EMPLOYMENT:
Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Lockheed Martin. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor of Science or higher from an accredited college in Electrical Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education.

• HDL programming experience with VHDL, Verilog, and/or System Verilog.

• Experience on Hardware-Software Integration and Validation

• Familiarity with FPGA toolsets (Vivado, Libero, and/or Quartus strongly preferred)

• Experience with electronics design and troubleshooting activities.
Desired Skills:
• Experience in ASIC / FPGA life cycle (architecture, design, simulation, verification, validation, integration & test)
• Familiarity programming Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) or Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLD).
• Experience with management of Configuration Control
• Experience with Vivado FPGA toolset
• Comfortable using digital oscilloscopes, power meters, and other test equipment; basic soldering and wiring skills a plus.
• Ability and desire to work both independently and as a part of cross-functional team of electrical, mechanical, software and control engineers.
Clearance Level: None
Other Important Information You Should Know
Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
Ability to Work Remotely: Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
Schedule for this Position: 9×80 every other Friday off
Pay Rate:
The annual base salary range for this position in California and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Washington or Washington DC is $109,500 – $209,900 . Please note that the salary information 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 and business considerations when extending an offer.

Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
(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.

This position is incentive plan eligible.
Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 – 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: SPACE
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Electronics Engineering
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First