Senior Electrical Engineer DO-254 - Sierra Nevada Corporation (Reno, NV) in Reno, Nevada For Sale

To give you a little background, our project involves FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) certification of an avionics product. For such products, the FAA requires the engineering to be done per a variety of development guidelines/processes.
For FPGA work, the applicable process is DO-254. We have several very experienced FPGA engineers, but we have never dealt with DO-254. Additionally, all of our FPGA engineers are currently busy on other assignments.
We are looking for help in three areas:
Creation of DO-254 compliant documentation.
There are quite a few ( 10) documents required by DO-254, covering a range of plans, standards, and procedures.
Typically, there is a lot of boiler plate that can be applicable from one program to another, but there is also a LOT of detail that is quite specific to the particular project.
The FAA is quite picky about them; they cannot be quickly thrown together.
It requires a lot of careful, detailed work to put them together. We are looking for someone who can help us navigate our way through this process and write the documents themselves.
This speaks to the need for a senior engineer who has been down the road before.
FPGA high-level design.
There are multiple FPGAs in our system, so the work will also involve coming up to speed on our system and how it has been partitioned, what each FPGA will be doing, and developing the high-level architecture of each FPGA design.
This work will not be done from scratch, as we already have a working concept demonstrator and a closely-related prototype system which has been flying for several years.
We are also currently in development of a new non-FAA system which will be the starting point for the architecture of the FAA system.
Transition to our internal FPGA team. Once the DO-254 documents are in place and as our FPGA engineers free up from their current work, I fully expect they will be able to take over and complete the remaining DO-254 development effort.
I am looking for someone to start in January xxxx. I expect the duration of the above work to be in the 3-6 month timeframe. There could easily be some low-level, periodic consulting to help with later stages of the DO-254 development; we can work that out later.
Specializing in leading-edge manned and unmanned aircraft control and landing systems, SNC s Communication, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management business area designs and develops surface and airborne radars, 3-dimensional imaging radars, manned and unmanned aircraft flight control systems, GPS navigation systems, support avionics, mobile Air Traffic Control shelters and related products. This business area is continuing to grow in support of its customers and seeks qualified and highly motivated individuals to join our team in Sparks, NV.
The Senior Electrical Engineer DO-254 is responsible for leading the development of complex digital electronic designs for airborne radar control, signal processing, and system interfacing within the Enhanced Flight Visions Systems (EFVS) product line. The candidate will join active fixed and rotary wing programs focused on developing and producing millimeter wave radar Enhanced Flight Vision Systems for military and commercial aviation.
This position offers the opportunity to work with a team of highly talented engineers on exciting programs utilizing cutting edge technologies to provide our customers with innovative, state-of-the-art products.
Essential functions of the Senior Electrical Engineer FPGA:
a. Lead the creation and definition of a DO-254 compliant process for FPGA code development.
b. Lead the design and development of complex FPGA code in a DO-254 compliant environment. Assist in FPGA selection and over-all architecture. FPGA code will be implementing such functionality as digital signal processing, servo control, Tx/Rx timing control, and various I/O and communications interfaces. Responsibility encompasses design partitioning, high-level design, VHDL code generation, simulation, and test.
c. Author artifacts following DO-254 guidance including plans, standards, checklists, requirements, design, implementation, test cases and procedures, reviews, configuration items, validation and verification results, change impact analyses, conformity reviews, and accomplishment summaries.
d. Support functional simulation, development board configuration, unit testing, system integration testing, lab test and ground/flight testing.
e. Mentor non-DO-254 engineers and junior engineers through FPGA development process and DO-254 process.
f. Create test plans and procedures for test and qualification of FPGA portion of the system.
g. Participate as a member of a program s Integrated Product Team (IPT).
h. Understand, plan, and execute engineering design and development activities in accordance with SNC s SEI-CMMI Maturity Level 3, DO-254, ISO xxxx:xxxx and ASxxxx:xxxx compliant processes and specific customer quality, cost and schedule requirements.
i. Compose and present technical and status data at technical interchange meetings and design reviews.
j. Support continuous process improvement, helping to develop and improve processes to positively impact product quality, performance and increase productivity.
It is desired that candidates have experience with, and/or capability in, the following areas:
a. Familiarity with XILINX FPGA development with Aldec Active-HDL
b. Experience with digital I/O circuitry and logic such as 100/xxxxBaseT Ethernet, and serial/parallel digital buses and comm. links.
c. Experience in the design of complex, high-speed, digital electronic circuitry involving such items as FPGAs, microprocessors, memories, and digital and analog I/O.
d. Experience with interfacing to analog I/O such as high-speed A/D and D/As.
e. Experience with DxDesigner / PADS schematic capture.
f. Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Candidate must have the following experience and or capabilities:
a. Extensive experience in DO-254 compliant FPGA development process, documents, plans and procedures.
b. At least 10 years of experience in electronic design and product development.
c. B.S. Degree, or higher, in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
d. U.S. citizen and must be eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
In return for the above, you can expect challenging work alongside some of today s brightest engineers and scientists, competitive salary, industry leading benefits and excellent growth opportunities.
With your application/resume, please answer the following specific questions:
Describe your experience designing complex digital electronic circuitry in a DO-254 compliant process. Please include details of your specific role.
Describe your experience designing and developing complex FPGA logic. Please include details of your specific role.
Specializing in leading-edge manned and unmanned aircraft control and landing systems, SNC s Communication, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management business area designs and develops surface and airborne radars, 3-dimensional imaging radars, manned and unmanned aircraft flight control systems, GPS navigation systems, support avionics, mobile Air Traffic Control shelters and related products. This business area is continuing to grow in support of its customers and seeks qualified and highly motivated individuals to join our team in Sparks, NV.
Essential functions of the Principal Software Engineer position:
a.Lead a program s Software Integrated Product Team as part of the program s leadership team. This includes planning and directing the execution of software development for the program.
b.Development and/or modification of DO-178 compliant real-time radar control and data processing, 3D processing and terrain modeling, and 3D graphic rendering software using C.
c.Generate detailed, measurable artifacts to evidence progress in support of key program milestones while directing the software team during the course of the development.
d.Understand, plan, and execute engineering design and development activities in accordance with SNC s SEI-CMMI Maturity Level 3, ISO xxxx:xxxx and ASxxxx:xxxx compliant processes and specific customer quality, cost and schedule requirements.
e.Compose and present engineering status at technical interchange meetings and design reviews.
f.Support continuous process improvement, helping to develop and improve processes to positively impact product quality, performance and increase productivity.
It is desired that candidates have the following experience or capabilities:
a.Practical understanding of cost and schedule reporting and measurement leveraging the Earned Value system
b.Experience with one or more of the following: digital signal processing, servo control systems, computational geometry, 3D computer graphics.
c.Experience with OpenGL SC, its graphics APIs, and an understanding of the rendering pipeline. Experience with terrain rendering and related algorithms is a plus.
d.Experience developing software using VxWorks Workbench and Microsoft Visual C/C++.
e.Familiarity with Subverison or Git version control systems.
f.Experience with Matlab for behavior modeling, simulation, and test data analysis.
g.Experience in the use of modern software engineering processes (CMMI level 3 or higher), methodologies and tools.
h.Exposure to robust code design methodology for embedded applications with real-time constraints is highly desirable.
i.Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Candidate must have the following experience or capabilities:
a.Direct experience leading the development of DO-178 compliant software.
b.Experience in full cycle software development including involvement in th development of system/software requirements, architecture, specification, analysis, design, implementation, testing, documentation, and maintenance in a disciplined software engineering environment.
c.At least 6 years of experience developing C/C++ real-time software, with at least 3 years involved in 3D processing or 3D graphics.
d.B.S. Degree, or higher, in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
e.U.S. citizen or permanent resident and must be eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
In return for the above, you can expect challenging work alongside some of today s brightest engineers and scientists, competitive salary, industry leading benefits and excellent growth opportunities.
With your application/resume, please answer the following specific questions:
Do you have experience designing and developing real-time 3D software? Describe your direct involvement.
Describe the scope/complexity of related software you've developed. What was your direct involvement?
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