Senior FPGA Engineer

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with safety. It’s the constant that empowers people to confidently move forward. It can fill a flight or sell out a stadium. It can care for a patient or graduate a class.

As a global leader in public safety and enterprise security, we create and connect the technologies that help to keep people safe where they live, learn, work and play. Our integrated technology ecosystem unifies critical communications, video security and access control, and command center software, enabling collaboration in more powerful ways.

At Motorola Solutions, we’re ushering in a new era in public safety and security. Bring your passion, potential and talents to a career that matters.

Department Overview

Our Applied Technology organization puts some of Motorola Solutions' brightest minds on unique, highly challenging projects. Based on decades of experience with our customers, we apply leading-edge technologies to support security and safety throughout the world. We engineer our products from start to finish and manufacture them in-house. We're known for low volume and high capability with focused specialization in areas including software-defined radios, advanced antenna solutions, artificial intelligence and machine learning, cybersecurity, signals intelligence and more. We can't tell you much more about what we do, but we can tell you it's amazing.
Job Description

Responsibilities:

• You will be a member of a small (1-6 person) multi-disciplinary team

• Will be responsible for architecting/implementing/testing FPGA-based signal processing solutions for a variety of advanced wireless communications products.

• Will be involved in all phases of projects, from requirements analysis and system architecture, through coding (VHDL or Verilog), test bench design, verification, synthesis, and FPGA placement & routing.

• Will have regular interaction with customers.

• Will work closely with hardware and software developers with a hands-on role in product integration and debugging.

• Must be a flexible, results-oriented problem-solver who requires minimal supervision.

• Projects can vary greatly from one to the next, so you must thrive on variety and enjoy taking on new challenges.

• Opportunity to be involved in additional hardware engineering tasks including design, component selection, schematic entry, FPGA/CPLD design, and validation of the entire product depending on skills and interests.

• For digital design tasks, candidate will design and debug digital hardware circuits using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.

Desired Skills/Knowledge:

• 5+ years of experience developing FPGA designs using VHDL and/or Verilog

• Experience designing Firmware for FPGA or CPLDs using Verilog or VHDL

• Experience in digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms, techniques, design of filters, etc

• Experience with EDA tools such as: Cadence Incisive, Modelsim, Xilinx Vivado, Altera Quartus, Matlab/Simulink, Git.

• Applicant should be capable of working at both the simulation level (in Matlab/Simulink, or equivalent) as well as the implementation/verification level.

• Schematic capture experience using Cadence Allegro is a plus.

• Literacy with real-time embedded software, especially debugging

Basic Requirements

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

• Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain necessary security clearance as required by government contracts. Some contracts may have higher-level clearance requirements.

Travel RequirementsNone
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperienced
Referral Payment PlanYes

Our U.S. Benefits include:

• Incentive Bonus Plans
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
• 401K with Company Match
• 9 Paid Holidays
• Generous Paid Time Off Packages
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Paid Parental & Family Leave
• and more!

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status, or, any other protected characteristic.