Sr. Advanced FPGA/Firmware Engineer at General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc
Middletown, RI
$155,000–$165,000from the description
Aug 10, 2026
Middletown, RI
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A firmware/software engineering role embedded with General Dynamics Mission Systems' Torpedo Systems Group, focused on FPGA design, firmware development, and hardware integration in a Linux environment. The engineer also serves as an on-site representative for government customers during product installations and troubleshooting. The role spans the full development lifecycle and requires hands-on hardware debugging alongside software and firmware work.
Senior level · 8+ years · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Degree requirement: a Bachelor's in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related STEM field is the minimum stated; a Master's reduces the experience requirement to 6 years. Because the posting does not offer an 'equivalent experience' path in lieu of a degree, Bachelors is treated as a hard requirement.
The minimum experience requirement is 8 years (with a Bachelor's) or 6 years (with a Master's); 8 years is used as the role-level minimum.
Secret clearance must be 'obtainable within a reasonable amount of time after hire' — it is not required to be held at time of application, but it is a firm gate for continued employment.
Hardware troubleshooting tools (oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies) are mentioned in the 'We encourage you to apply if you have any of these skills' section, which reads as preferred/encouraged rather than a hard gate; they are omitted as they name categories of instruments rather than specific named technologies.
Git is listed under 'What you bring to the table' with the qualifier 'preferred', so it is marked as preferred rather than required.
The alt SOC (15-1299) reflects the hybrid firmware/FPGA nature of the role, which sits at the boundary of software development and embedded/hardware engineering.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): FPGA design, real-time operating systems.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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