Senior Principal Engineer - FPGA

RTX is a global aerospace and defense company with more than 185,000 employees worldwide. We push the boundaries of technology and innovation to help create a safer, more connected world. Through our industry-leading businesses—Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon—we deliver advanced solutions for commercial aviation, defense, and connected technologies.

Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, is a leader in aerospace and defense technologies, delivering intelligent solutions that redefine the future of aviation. Our Digital Technology (DT) organization enables business transformation by providing secure, scalable, and innovative digital solutions that support our global operations, customers, and suppliers.

Join our Digital Technology team and play a key role in driving digital transformation across our global Supply Chain organization while collaborating with talented professionals around the world.

Lead development of high-performance reusable FPGA architectures for various product lines.  

Lead DO-254 compliance and certification activities for FPGA-based avionics products, providing technical leadership across planning, development, verification, validation, and certification documentation. Drive compliance with DO-254 processes and coordinate with engineering, quality, and certification teams to support successful product certification.

Work closely with systems engineers, hardware designers, embedded software teams, and test/validation groups to ensure cohesive product development.

Lead timing closure strategies and performance optimizations to meet real-time latency, throughput, and power requirements.

Lead FPGA/ASIC obsolescence management across products, driving lifecycle monitoring, risk assessment, alternate part evaluation, and FPGA/ASIC redesign/migration strategies.

Lead FPGA development using Model-Based Design with MATLAB/Simulink for different Avionics products. Drive algorithm modelling, simulation, FPGA implementation, verification, and providing technical leadership across projects and teams.

Evaluate and recommend next-generation FPGA families, IP cores, high-speed transceivers, and design tools to improve performance and reduce risk.

Author and review detailed design specifications, interface control documents, verification plans, and executive summaries for stakeholders.

Guide selection, deployment, and optimization of FPGA EDA tools, building automation systems, and continuous integration practices tailored for avionics development.

Mentor engineers across experience levels-guiding complex design decisions, performance tradeoffs.

Able to use AI tools and provide guidance to the team.

Communicate with a wide variety of individuals including Engineering, Program Management, Internal Leadership, and Customers.

You will learn the technologies of today and tomorrow which we count on to maintain world leadership in the avionics industry.   

You will learn all phases of the hardware product life cycle from requirements through to verification, while employing the company engineering processes to produce high-quality products.   

You will learn the requirements for product certification required by federal agencies.   

You will learn how to establish and maintain a computing module platform product line with a broad base of customers. 

Engineering Degree and minimum 15 years prior relevant experience in FPGA/ASIC design and verification.

Experience with leading multiple FPGA/ASIC development projects for Aerospace products from concept till DO-254 certification.

Experience in FPGA/ASIC obsolescence redesign and DO-254 certification.

Experience in FPGA development using Model-Based Design with MATLAB.

Experience in high-speed serial protocols, Image and Video Processing domains.

Experience with VHDL and SV/UVM.

Experience leading technical projects including customer interaction and briefing leadership. 

Able to interface within the wide spectrum of individual contributors to program management and customers. 

The ability to effectively document and present one’s work and status. 

Experience with Change Management, Earned Value Management and Lifecycle Program Management 

Experience with Microsoft Project, Subversion, Jira, Jama, DOORS, and other documentation tools. 

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