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# DSP and FPGA engineer

- **Company:** The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC
- **Location:** Laurel, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $100,000.0 - $245,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Applications, Build Automation, Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Formal Verification, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Description Language, MATLAB, Signal Processing, Software Engineering, System on a Chip, Verilog, VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL), Vivado, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Fpga Hardware, ModelSim, Gitlab, Build Management, Information Technology
- **Published:** August 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/1e85ec7a-de7a-4684-a1e0-96f4a2bc184f

## About the Role

* Have a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or another field relevant to the duties as described above.
 * Have 3+ years of software development experience with proficiency in VHDL or Verilog, FPGA development tools (e.g. Xilinx Vivado), and simulation tools (e.g. Xilinx Vivado, ModelSim).
 * Use Gitlab for build automation and CI/CD to automatically test, configure, build and deploy complex software applications.
 * Are able to acquire a Secret level security clearance by your start date. If selected, you will be subject to a government security clearance investigation and must meet the requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility requirements include U.S. citizenship.

You'll go above and beyond our minimum requirements if you...

 * Are familiar with RTL formal verification procedures
 * Have experience implementing signal processing algorithms in GPUs
 * Demonstrate success with architecting and implementing solutions that utilize the PS and PL of SoCs (e.g Xilinx Zynq).

## Description

Are you passionate about building impactful and field-forward solutions for our greatest national security challenges?

Do you have a passion for developing and implementing innovative high-speed digital signal processing algorithms in modern FPGAs and SoCs?, * Take a sophisticated signal processing algorithm developed in Matlab and implement in HDL, verify in simulation, and integrate on FPGAs.

 * Collaborate with experienced engineers on development of signal processing algorithms for wireless communication systems.
 * Support integration, field testing, debugging, and troubleshooting, often under tight time constraints.
 * Engage with sponsors to understand and tackle their toughest problems.


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