Principal Firmware Engineer (ONSITE)

Job description

Date Posted:

2025-08-28

Country:

United States of America

Location:

FL410: Largo FL MFG 7887 Bryan Dairy Road , Largo, FL, 33777 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: Secret

Raytheon Company, Managed by Collins Aerospace

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is hiring Principal Firmware Engineers to support programs for our US military and various international customers, keeping the world safe from foreign threats.

As a Principal Firmware Engineer, you will be a member of an Integrated Program Team (IPT)) creating complex firmware solutions implemented in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), System on Chip (SOC), and Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs).

Development activities may also include laboratory integration, test and evaluation, fault isolation of prototype hardware, and system qualification testing support.

What You Will Do
• Develop system and/or FPGA architectures based on high level requirements
• Target device trade studies, recommendations, and selection
• Generate firmware requirements based on the system architecture
• Generate firmware documentation that describes the firmware architecture
• Design HDL based digital circuits that are structured and readable
• Build test benches to verify/test the HDL based design
• Generate constraints for target device
• Create scripts to automate build, integration, and test activities
• Verify target device functionality in laboratory environment

Qualifications You Must Have
• Minimum 8 years of experience in digital hardware design and verification
• Successfully have completed several designs for various devices and applications
• Designed communication interfaces and bus standards (e.g., SPI, I2C, PCIe, UART, or Gb Ethernet)
• Tested and verified designs using logic analyzers, high-speed oscilloscopes, signal generators, and/or target device debugging tools
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience

Qualifications We Prefer
• Experience leading a team of engineers as an Account Control Manager using Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Provide proposal support, cost and schedule estimation, and generating technical documentation related to contract deliverable items
• Experience in embedded processors and SoC development for FPGA devices
• Experience in FPGA design implementation with VHDL design language
• Experience in designing applications that utilized red/black separation and redundancy concepts
• Experience in OpenVPX technology including VITA standards
• Experience in MATLAB and Simulink for digital signal processing designs that use floating and fixed-point numbers
• Experience in the following Simulation Tools: Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, or Cadence
• Experience in the following Development Tools: AMD (Xilinx), Intel (Altera), Lattice, or Microsemi (Actel) FPGA
• Experience in TCL, Perl, or Python for Scripting
• Experience in FPGA Development with Linux Operating System

What We Offer
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program 
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection 
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits 
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program 
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services 
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
• This position is eligible for relocation assistance 
• And more!

Do you want to be a part of something bigger?

A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond?

At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be.

Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions.

By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow.

Are you up for the challenge?

Join our mission today.

*Please ensure the role type (defined below) is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role.
ONSITE: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite.

This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

Employee Referral Eligible
 

The salary range for this role is 101,000 USD - 203,000 USD.

The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels.

RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.

Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.This role is a U.S.-based role.

If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted.

However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

Required Skill Profession

Engineers