Published Date: May 31, 2026
Collins Aerospace, 855 35th Street NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
Job Description:
Collins Aerospace is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to join their team in Cedar Rapids, IA. This role involves designing, implementing, verifying, and integrating high-performance digital ASICs and FPGAs for aerospace and defense applications. Candidates must possess an active U.S. government security clearance and be U.S. citizens.
Responsibilities:
- Identify requirements capture, ASIC/FPGA digital architecture and design using RTL, timing closure, verification, and system integration.
- Recommend new tools and practices for continuous improvement in ASIC/FPGA design flow.
- Contribute to engineering estimates for new program pursuits.
- Provide technical leadership for project design teams by breaking down work, planning activities, and reporting status.
Qualifications:
- Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience or an Advanced Degree with 3 years of experience.
- Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance required prior to start date.
- U.S. citizenship required for security clearance eligibility.
- Experience in RTL coding and simulation in Verilog or VHDL.
- Experience in digital circuit architecture, design, resource tradeoffs, timing analysis, and timing closure.
- Experience in Testbench development for RTL verification using System Verilog.
- Proficient in ASIC/FPGA simulation and synthesis tools (e.g., ModelSim, Synplify, Quartus, Vivado).
- Familiarity with revision control concepts and tools (e.g., Git, Subversion).
Skills:
- Familiarity with best-practice chip-level verification techniques and languages (e.g., constrained random, functional coverage, System Verilog).
- Experience in ASIC/FPGA lab validation using advanced laboratory equipment.
- Experience in Design for Test (DFT) and manufacturability.
- Experience with Unix, scripting, C/C++, and/or Perl.