Company Description
CS Group USA, a subsidiary of CS Group, develops and certifies safety-critical systems for the aerospace industry in the United States. The company works on complex high-tech systems for aerospace manufacturers and offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and professional development opportunities.
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced FPGA Development Engineer with real-time embedded systems development experience to lead requirements, design, and development activities for safety-critical airborne systems. The successful candidate will guide development lifecycles to satisfy DO-254 objectives, provide technical leadership, and support certification and verification teams.
This role can be onsite in Connecticut, hybrid, or fully remote.
Responsibilities
- Technically lead end-to-end FPGA development activities for embedded aerospace and defense systems from concept to integration.
- Collaborate across systems, hardware, software, verification, and certification teams.
- Support compliance with DO-254 and AC 20-152A objectives, including certification audits, reviews, and data package development.
- Define interfacing between hardware and FPGA, and between software and FPGA.
- Define, solve, and defend technical decisions while guiding implementation and conducting formal design reviews.
- Capture device-level requirements accurately and effectively.
- Implement requirements into conceptual and detailed designs.
- Support development according to schedules and quality objectives while communicating technical status to stakeholders.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering, science, or technical discipline.
- At least 7 years of relevant experience in FPGA, programmable logic, digital hardware, or embedded systems development.
- Strong understanding of embedded hardware architectures, development processes, COTS IP selection, safety-critical hardware development, and systems engineering processes.
- Experience with VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, or similar hardware design languages.
- Experience with Python or equivalent scripting languages.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and root-cause investigation skills.
- Excellent communication and technical leadership skills.
- U.S. citizenship is required; dual citizenship must be disclosed.
- Ability to travel up to approximately four weeks per year.
Benefits
- Annual cash bonus opportunity.
- 2% annual retirement benefit opportunity.
- Training and professional development opportunities.
- Six paid holidays.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Vacation, sick time, and bereavement leave.
- Employee Assistance Program, including mental health benefits.
- Optional spouse and child life insurance, whole life insurance, critical illness insurance, legal assistance, and military leave.
Additional Information
CS Group USA values diversity in the workplace and encourages women, visible minorities, ethnic minorities, Aboriginal people, and people with disabilities to apply. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.