FPGA Verification Engineer

PGS Worldwide is seeking an FPGA Verification Engineer in Owego, NY for a one-year onsite contract-to-hire role supporting a leading aerospace & defense company. This position will focus primarily on FPGA verification for safety-critical avionics hardware while also supporting ASIC/FPGA development, integration, and testing. The engineer will perform DO-254 verification activities, develop and execute test environments, analyze coverage, and collaborate across systems, hardware, and certification teams.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree with 9–15 years of relevant experience, or master’s degree with 7–13 years of relevant experience.
• Experience performing FPGA verification for complex digital hardware.
• Experience supporting DO-254 compliance activities for safety-critical avionics hardware, including Level A requirements.
• Proficiency with SystemVerilog.
• Experience with FPGA development tools such as Xilinx Vivado, Intel Quartus, and/or Synopsys Synplify.
• Proficiency with HDL simulators, waveform viewers, and coverage-analysis tools.
• Experience with requirements analysis, verification test development, test execution, simulation, coverage analysis, and results back-annotation.
• Experience with FPGA-based digital signal processing, high-speed digital design, high-speed communications, and/or system-on-chip architectures.
• Familiarity with hardware-in-the-loop test environments and equipment such as JTAG and logic analyzers.
• Experience with version control and configuration management systems.
• Ability to collaborate across FPGA/ASIC, systems, RF/analog, and digital circuit engineering disciplines.
• Ability to provide technical direction and support to less experienced engineers.

Preferred Skills

• Proficiency with UVM.
• Proficiency with C.
• Previous involvement with FAA or EASA certification audits.
• Experience with embedded processors and COTS-based control platforms.
• Experience developing automation or scripting solutions that improve FPGA development and verification efficiency.

What You’ll Do

• Perform FPGA verification activities supporting DO-254 compliance and certification of safety-critical avionics hardware.
• Analyze hardware requirements and develop verification strategies, test cases, and test procedures.
• Execute simulations and verification testing and perform functional and coverage analysis.
• Back-annotate verification results and maintain supporting verification documentation.
• Support FPGA and ASIC design, simulation, verification, integration, and testing.
• Develop and integrate high-speed digital, DSP, communications, and system-on-chip functionality on FPGA platforms.
• Use FPGA design, simulation, waveform, and coverage-analysis tools throughout the development lifecycle.
• Support hardware-in-the-loop testing using JTAG, logic analyzers, and related laboratory equipment.
• Collaborate with systems architects, RF/analog engineers, digital circuit designers, and FPGA/ASIC engineers.
• Develop automation and scripts to improve FPGA development and verification processes.
• Support configuration management and version-control activities.
• Provide technical guidance and direction to junior engineers.
• Support certification activities and technical reviews associated with DO-254 Level A hardware.

Pay

• $60.00–$80.00 per hour

Job ID: 22377/22378

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