Firmware Developer

Firmware Developer

Job Description

At Boeing we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity equity and inclusion are shared values. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming respectful and inclusive with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

In this exciting role you will work in a fast-paced dynamic environment supporting our current and future customers. Our team is responsible for creating FPGA-based solutions to complex real-time data processing problems that involve the entire system development cycle from requirements definition all the way through implementation and fielding of capabilities. Duties include the creation of new components as well as the support/modification of existing capabilities. The ability to effectively work independently as well as a member of larger teams is critical for success in this job.

Competitive Salaries and Comprehensive Benefits

• Employee Performance Incentives
• Ongoing Training Opportunities
• Boeing Employee Discount Program
• Health Insurance Opt-out Incentives
• Generous 401k Contribution – 10% contribution (NOT A MATCH)
• Student Debt Payoff
• Tuition Assistance
• HSA Contributions
• Professional Development Program

Every day Boeing Intelligence & Analytics supports global missions by building and delivering intelligence analytics and cyber solutions that enable users to advance national security. We have provided our customers with the tools needed to counter evolving global and cyber threats and to improve wartime decision making. Our talented employees bring software development systems engineering and advanced analytics expertise. We offer numerous prime contract opportunities with customers headquartered in Maryland Virginia and the District of Columbia as well as subcontract opportunities that align with our areas of focus and additional opportunities nationwide through our parent company.

A Day in the Life (Just a Few of the Things You Will Do)

• Apply an interdisciplinary collaborative approach to lead activities to plan design develop and verify complex lifecycle balanced system of systems and system solutions.
• Lead others to evaluate customer/operational needs to define system performance requirements integrate technical parameters and assure compatibility of all physical functional and program interfaces.
• Lead analyses to optimize total system of systems and/or system architecture.
• Lead analyses for affordability safety reliability maintainability testability human systems integration survivability vulnerability susceptibility system security regulatory certification product assurance and other specialties quality factors into a preferred configuration to ensure mission success.
• Lead develop maintain and identify improvements for the planning organization implementation and monitoring of requirements management processes FPGA/firmware/software configuration management processes tools risk issues opportunity management and technology readiness assessment processes.
• Lead activities to develop and maintain full documentation of architecture algorithms FPGA/firmware software and system interfaces.
• Plan and lead research projects to develop concepts for future product designs to meet projected requirements.

Work Location: Annapolis Junction MD

Telework Availability: No Telework Availability

Required Skills

• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
• FPGA/Xilinx and the associated development tools
• VHDL/Verilog
• MATLAB/Octave
• DSP
• C++
• Python
• Linux development
• Ability to effectively communicate ideas and theories via white papers and technical design meetings

Desired Skills

• Basic Linux System Administration
• RPMs and YUM
• Git/GitLab
• Agile development processes
• Continuous integration tool support - GitLab CI/CD Jenkins
• Shell scripting (Bash but any scripting experience will suffice)
• PCIe Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
• Atlassian Tools (Jira Confluence etc…)
• Strong math skills
• Boeing Intelligence & Analytics Benefits: Employees are more effective on the job when they are not distracted by health and financial worries. To support our workforce we offer a wide variety of health life and other insurance benefits (as described above) that allow each employee to choose the coverage best suited to their needs and the needs of their family.

Summary Pay Range

$ - $

Equal Opportunity Employer

BI&A is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to racecolor religion sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin age protected veteran status or disability status.

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We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not accept unlawful discrimination in our recruitment or employment practices on any grounds including but not limited to race color ethnicity religion national origin gender sexual orientation gender identity age physical or mental disability genetic factors military and veteran status or other characteristics covered by applicable law.

We have teams in more than 65 countries and each person plays a role in helping us become one of the world’s most innovative diverse and inclusive companies. We are proud members of the Valuable 500 and welcome applications from candidates with disabilities. Applicants are encouraged to share with our recruitment team any accommodations required during the recruitment process. Accommodations may include but are not limited to: conducting interviews in accessible locations that accommodate mobility needs encouraging candidates to bring and use any existing assistive technology such as screen readers and offering flexible interview formats such as virtual or phone interviews.