[Hiring] FPGA Developer @Booz Allen Hamilton

Role Description

Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big‑picture thinking to make an impact on national defense? You understand your client’s environment and how to develop the right systems to support their mission. Your ability to translate real‑world needs into technical specifications makes you a key contributor to delivering client‑focused engineering solutions.

As an experienced electrical engineer with a background in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) design, you will help solve complex challenges that drive the development of next‑generation satellite systems. You will take on a hands‑on role in designing, implementing, and testing FPGA‑based processing architectures, while enhancing these systems through advanced technology solutions that meet demanding space and mission requirements.

You’ll apply your expertise while providing guidance to a cross-domain team focused on digital design, verification, and system integration. In this role, you will collaborate closely across engineering disciplines to ensure seamless integration of FPGA designs into spacecraft subsystems. Through this work, you will help translate system‑level requirements into robust hardware implementations that enable reliable on‑orbit performance.

Join our team and help shape the future of resilient space systems in support of national security.

Qualifications

• Experience using Vivado for embedded system design
• Experience with Digital Signal Processing mathematics and implementing algorithms in synthesizable HDL
• Experience with scientific analysis software, such as MATLAB
• Experience with benchtop equipment, including oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, arbitrary waveform generators, and vector signal generators
• Knowledge of commercial RF and digital component and assembly distributors for rapid prototyping
• Knowledge of wideband RF signal acquisition and generation, as well as FPGA development processes
• Knowledge of RF signal propagation chain configurations
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 7+ years of experience in digital design through HDL and schematic layout, or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 5+ years of experience in digital design through HDL and schematic layout

Requirements

• Experience with FPGA development tools, such as AMD Vitis or Intel Quartus
• Experience with EDA tools for HDL and RTL simulation, such as ModelSim, Questa, Xcelium, VCS, or Aldec
• Knowledge of satellite requirements and design
• Knowledge of space‑specific requirements, including system hardening
• Knowledge of RADAR and Electronic Attack (EA) and Electronic Support (ES) concepts
• Knowledge of embedded Linux and RTOS development, including U‑Boot, Yocto, BitBake, OpenEmbedded, or device tree components
• Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Benefits

• Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
• Paid leave
• Professional development
• Tuition assistance
• Work-life programs
• Dependent care
• Recognition awards program for exceptional performance