Senior FPGA Reverse Engineer

The role

The Senior FPGA Reverse Engineer will execute FPGA reverse engineering tasks and support software development to improve and automate the process. This role involves netlist analysis, hardware modeling, and tool development within a multi-disciplinary team.

What you will do

• Perform FPGA reverse engineering work to identify behavioral details of an application
• Model, test, and document RE findings using hardware modeling and simulation platforms
• Prepare reports and presentations for STR’s customers and collaborators
• Assist in research for emerging FPGA and hardware reverse engineering capabilities
• Develop software supporting STR’s FPGA reverse engineering capabilities
• Identify new areas for tool development
• Participate in design reviews and testing for FPGA RE tools

Required qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering/Electrical & Computer Engineering
• At least 5 years of relevant experience
• Strong problem solving skills
• Experience working with hardware description languages (i.e., Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL)
• Experience developing applications targeting FPGAs including design, synthesis, and configuration
• In depth knowledge of industry standard FPGAs (i.e., Altera, Xilinx), their development environments (i.e., Quartus, Vivado), RTL simulation, and project compilation workflows
• Strong background with digital design and logic concepts
• Software development experience ideally in Python, C, and/or C++
• Ability to prepare and present technical material to customers and internal staff

Nice to have

• Active Top Secret (TS) Security Clearance
• Deep knowledge of FPGA architecture
• Hardware troubleshooting experience including using logic analyzers and oscilloscopes
• Experience using Matlab and Simulink
• Embedded systems experience including sensor interfacing with an FPGA or microcontroller
• Knowledge of signal processing implementation techniques common to FPGA implementations
• Leadership experience especially for hardware, FPGA, and/or embedded systems design efforts

Before you apply

• Ability to obtain a Top Secret (TS) security clearance
• U.S. citizenship is needed by the U.S. Government

About the company

STR is a growing technology company specializing in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security. They have locations near Boston, MA, Arlington, VA, near Dayton, OH, Melbourne, FL, Carlsbad, CA, Atlanta, GA, and Denver, CO.