Raleigh, NC
Josue Ortiz — FPGA Engineer.
I implement custom digital designs on FPGA and SoC devices.
About
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FPGA engineer working on systems incorporating FPGAs for low-latency, deterministic, and/or safety-critical functions.
My field of focus has been aircraft systems in the Aerospace & Defense industry.
Portfolio
Experience
2026 — Present
Plexus Corp.
FPGA Engineer
Design of an electronic control unit FPGA, developed in compliance with DO-254 / AC 20-152A, for an aircraft airframe system.
- Simulink
- JAMA
- System Verilog
2023 — 2025
Northrop Grumman
Digital Engineer
Architecture design for FPGAs on secure processing boards, including module IP design and verification for secure boot applications.
- Vivado
- System Verilog
- QuestaSim
2022 — 2023
L3Harris
FPGA Engineer
Design refresh of a legacy controller FPGA on a processing board for an aircraft display system.
- Intel Quartus
- UVM
- VHDL
2019 — 2022
L3Harris
Electrical Engineer
Digital circuit card design, bring-up, and integration on the F-35 ICP program.
- Cadence
- Allegro
- HyperLynx
Stack
FPGA Technology
- Xilinx Ultrascale+
- Xilinx 7series
- Altera MAX10
- MicroSemi PolarFire
Languages
- System Verilog
- VHDL
- C/C++
- Python
- TCL
Simulators
- Questasim
- Xcellium
- Verilator
Integrations
- Git
- Bitbucket
- JIRA
- Agile