Description

SAIC is currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer experienced in FPGA-based design to support the development, integration, and testing of a wide range of underwater systems in Middletown, RI.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• You will work within a multidisciplinary team of SAIC and government electrical engineers and computer engineers to define, design, and verify embedded electronic and processing systems for undersea applications.
• You will define requirements, generate architectural and detailed designs, generate test plans, lead and execute the testing of analog & digital electronic systems including debugging of embedded electronic and software systems.
• You will be exposed to a wide variety of projects and interesting engineering challenges.
• You must be highly motivated and have excellent problem solving and organizational skills, and the ability to work on multiple tasks concurrently with changing deadlines and priorities.

Qualifications

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience in embedded design and electronic system testing

• Software:
  • Proficiency with C/C++ & Python
  • Experience with different embedded software architectures
  • Experience writing device drivers for bare-metal systems and Linux
• FPGAs:
  • Proficiency with VHDL or Verilog
  • Experience with Xilinx Vivado/SDK or Vitis preferred. Altera Quartus acceptable.

CLEARANCE:

• Must be able to obtain and hold a clearance up to the level of SECRET

DESIRED:

• Software:
  • Experience with different processor boot sequences
• FPGAs:
  • Utilizes Test Driven Design (TDD) and creates self-testing test benches for every level of design
  • Experience with clock domain crossing & timing closure techniques
  • Experience with both pure FPGAs and MPSoCs

• Electrical:
  • Comfortable going through schematics to debug hardware issues
  • Comfortable with lab devices such as multimeters, logic analyzes, oscilloscopes, etc.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.