Published Date: October 10, 2026
Lockheed Martin, Liverpool, NY
Job Description:
Lockheed Martin is seeking a Mid Career Firmware Engineer (FPGA Design) to join their team in Syracuse, NY. The company values innovation, integrity, and a collaborative work environment, offering a flexible schedule to promote work-life balance. The role involves designing and implementing FPGA firmware architecture and custom digital board designs, with a focus on digital signal processing and high-speed communications.
Responsibilities:
- Perform complex FPGA firmware architecture and custom digital board designs.
- Design digital signal processing, messaging, control, and high-speed communications.
- Interface and collaborate with program leadership and teammates regularly.
- Estimate, break down, and plan work for the firmware team.
- Develop, design, verify, and document ASIC and FPGA development.
- Determine architecture design, logic design, and system simulation.
- Analyze all aspects from high-level design to synthesis, place and route, and timing and power utilization.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline (Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering).
- 2 to 5 years of professional experience in FPGA architecture and design.
- Technical expertise to implement designs with minimal direction.
Skills:
- Strong knowledge of Xilinx, Intel, or Microsemi FPGA devices and their application environments.
- Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and guide major program completions.
- Extensive VHDL firmware programming capability on FPGA devices.
- Experience with Xilinx Vivado, Intel Quartus, or Microsemi Libero development platforms.
- Familiarity with Mentor Questa HDL simulator and UVM verification techniques.
- Experience with MATLAB modeling, Nvidia CUDA, OpenCL, Simulink HDL Coder, and Xilinx System Generator is a plus.