Senior FPGA Design Engineers

Senior FPGA Design Engineers

Location: Norwalk, CT and San Diego, CA (hybrid) Initially remote

Job Description:

The FPGA Firmware Engineer provides expertise to deliver FPGA designs supporting electronic and electrical designs for the entire development process. Conceptional design through detail design, prototypes through volume manufacture, initial integration through qualification. You will collaborate with a multidiscipline project team, perform engineering analysis, and generate detailed design documents.

The position requires someone who solves problems and takes ownership of their work and retains a sense of urgency to meet project deadlines. We are looking for candidates with innovative and energetic personalities who are willing to explore new ideas, and strong team players with excellent communication skills. motivated, extremely organized, and self-driven individuals.

Experience and Education:

• 10+ years of complex FPGA design, verification, and validation
• BSEE or MSEE (Preferred)

Qualifications:

The FPGA Firmware Engineer will work with a team of specialists who will be responsible for developing, testing, and supporting electronics boards or sub-systems. The engineer will be responsible for definition, design, verification, and documentation for FPGA's (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). They will provide RTL design, simulation, physical implementation, and verification of complex FPGA modules comprising a mix of custom RTL with hard and soft vendor IP cores within a larger architecture.

Required Duties:

• Determine architecture, system verification and detailed design approach
• Define module interfaces and all aspects of device design and simulation coordinated with the PC Board Designers
• Evaluate the process flow including but not limited to high level design, synthesis, place and route, timing constraints and power utilization
• Develop test, simulation plans and design verification test plans at design top level
• Develop, implement, and supervise design verification test plans at system level.
• Support the generation of technical engineering products by using the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the FPGA development life cycle
• May provide leadership and/or direction to lower level employees
• Independently determine approach to solutions and get alignment from System Engineers and board developers
• Contribute to design and development of FPGA hardware for control, communications systems and digital signal processing (DSP) platforms.

Required Skills:

• Highly proficient use and understanding of FPGA engineering concepts, principles, and theories
• Highly proficient in FPGA design languages, tools, and methodologies including VHDL and UVM or OSVVM
• Altera High Level Synthesis is preferred
• Experience with FPGA development software - Modelsim, Quartus, Mentor CDC a plus
• Excellent communication skills: identifying issues, impacts, and corrective actions
• Experience with FPGA SoC, including Avalon and AXI architectures
• Experience with architecting and implementing embedded processors including NIOS
• Proficient in implementing IP blocks based on interface requirements and designing the required interface logic to overall FPGA architecture
• Expertise using VHDL for implementation and verification of FPGA designs
• Basic knowledge of signal algorithms

SOFTWARE:

• VHDL, System Verilog, UVM
• Questa Sim, Modelsim, Quartus
• GIT, JIRA
• MATLAB and SimuLink