FPGA Engineer

Job Summary

Are you looking for an exciting, innovative company with over 100 years of excellence and commitment to ethical business? Amentum is a trusted partner to United States government agencies, allied governments, and corporations worldwide supporting critical programs across a broad range of domains. We are hiring a Senior Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Engineer in support of NSWC Crane.

The selected candidate will support areas such as; FPGA Security Research; Hardware Security; Hardware Assurance; Digital Design; Verification and validation of FPGA tools; Bitstream Analysis; and Reverse-Engineering.

Position Responsibilities:

• Creating innovative solutions to securing the full life-cycle of FPGAs and their design flow per customer requirements.
• Applying hardware cybersecurity and assurance best practices to current and future FPGA applications.
• Testing and validating the capabilities of FPGA security and assurance tools for use in DoD applications.
• Support the development of functional testing for FPGAs, by testing and verifying recently developed functional testing tools.
• Presenting research to prestigious academic and government conferences.
• Providing expert insight into contractor or other program technical reviews for FPGA security and assurance tools.
• Reverse-engineering of the cryptosystems and configuration files used in state-of-the-art FPGAs and their respective EDA tools.
• Mentoring junior engineers.

Interested, but not local? Ask us about relocation opportunities and discussing your options. Visit: https://www.craneindianajobs.com/ to learn more about our exciting work supporting the Crane Naval Base!

*Telework opportunity with regular site visits to Crane may be considered.

• Master’s degree in Engineering or related scientific field and at least 10 years of job-related experience or equivalent.
• Excellent communications and analytical skills; working knowledge of computer systems and integrated software application programs.
• Strong understanding of FPGA EDA tools (Vivado, Quartus, Diamond, etc.).
• Knowledge of the basic elements that make up the FPGA fabric space and how it all works together.
• Understanding of hardware security and assurance best practices (PUFs, power analysis, watermarking, metering, authentication, encryption, etc.).
• Experienced in digital logic and design.
• Confident in using the Python and C programming languages, Tcl, and HDLs (Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL).
• Position will require the ability to pass and maintain a Security Clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship.
• Ability to travel, as required.

• Active Secret Clearance