Belay Technologies has been voted Baltimore Business Journal's (BBJ) Best Places to Work 2019, runner up in 2020 and a finalist in 2021!

Belay Technologies is seeking a Senior Hardware Design Engineer (HDE). The HDE will designs and tests new integrated circuits and hardware components for a wide variety of signal processing applications and research. Designs, documents, and develops code (to include firmware) for digital signal processors or other programmable hardware devices such as Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware. Analyzes the function of existing integrated circuits and hardware components for the purpose of reverse engineering the hardware and firmware. Conducts the necessary hardware engineering and related functions to modify and adapt vendor-manufactured hardware to meet special Government needs and contingencies.

Candidate should have the following qualifications:

• Seven (7) years' experience as a HDE in integrated circuit or microelectronic component design is required.

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional hardware design engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

• TS/SCI with poly

   

Candidates shall have the following skills and capabilities: 

• The Level 3 Hardware Design Engineer (HDE) shall perform the following duties:

• Senior to Mid-level FPGA Design Engineer to join a team supporting design, develop, simulate, and integrate challenging signal processing solutions for FPGA-based COTS hardware platforms.

• Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a multi-disciplined design team (electrical engineers, software engineers and signals analysts) to design and integrate FPGA solutions for COTS hardware platforms incorporating Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ and Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGAs.

• Analyze, design, simulate, and implement signal processing algorithms in hardware description language, HDL (VHDL), based on customer requirements.

• Assist with maintenance of an HDL library of processing modules, creating new modules as needed, optimizing existing modules for speed and resource utilization as required.

• Design and implement testbenches in VHDL for code verification and validation.

• Utilize FPGA synthesis and place and route tools to implement designs for target platforms while verifying resource utilization and timing performance.

• Perform lab functional testing of completed designs.

• Provide technical support for deployed designs

   

• Assist with designing new products and processes and improving and maintaining existing products

• Communicate with the other engineering personnel to coordinate the interrelated design and assure project completion

• Conduct design analysis on components and/or assemblies to assist in the development process by ensuring designs are cost efficient, able to be manufactured, and reliable

• Apply ASIC or FPGA place and route (P&R) tools with various libraries to create physical implementations of designs

• Develop and maintain documentation for the P&R design flows

• Assist with de-processing electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures

• Design new products and processes and improving and maintaining existing products

• Work with tool and library vendors to develop solutions for designers' P&R design challenges

• Perform the de-processing of electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures

• Integrate new P&R tools, P&R tool updates, and ASIC or FPGA design libraries into Government's computer aided design environment, documents the use of those tools and libraries, and Assist other physical designers to successfully complete their specific P&R design tasks

• Lead the designs of new products and processes and improve and maintain existing products

• Provide technical leadership to less experienced engineers

• Perform the de-processing of electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures and develops improved procedures

• Direct and check the work of other hardware design engineers

• Act as internal consultant providing technical guidance on most complex projects

• Develop novel procedures for reverse engineering of new component types

• Oversee the de-processing of electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software 

Desired Skills:

• FPGA design

• Hardware Description Language (VHDL)

• Xilinx ISE

• Xilinx Vivado

• Mentor Graphics Modelsim

• Synplicity SynplifyPro/Premier

• Experience with digital signal processing protocols and techniques

Perks and Benefits:

• 8 weeks paid leave - 4 weeks of personal leave, 3 Yay! days, take off on your birthday,11 paid holidays and optional leave up to 6 days through Belay's volunteer program

• 10% matching in 401(k) contributions vested on day one

• $5,000 annual training/tuition

• Student Loan Repayment Program

• 100% company funded HSA

• Rich medical coverage (100% coinsurance)

• Dental coverage including orthodontia

• Up to $420,000 in life insurance, premiums 100% company funded

• Amazon Prime, gym reimbursement, monthly lunches, games and prizes

• Pet adoption program, generous referral bonus program, fun events, and more!

  Belay Technologies is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business located in Columbia, Maryland (Baltimore/Washington area). Belay Technologies specializes in systems automation and full stack development. Belay Technologies provides leading technology and engineering solutions to the DoD, as well as state-of-the-art commercial products. We hire software engineers, web designers, test engineers, systems engineers, systems administrators, database engineers and other tech services. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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