Senior FPGA Engineer
- Torrance, CA
- $140,500-168,600 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design and verification of RTL modules for FPGA applications
- Ownership of entire FPGA designs from initial architecture trades through implementation, verification, and hardware bringup, including FPGA sizing estimation and IO planning.
- Lead initial testing and bring-up of custom FPGA circuit cards, validating functionality of on-board peripherals including memory interfaces, Ethernet controllers, and integrated sensors.
- Automating test environment (up to and including hardware-in-the-loop testing), lab equipment, and measurement devices
- Capturing design tradeoffs, state machine flow, system address maps, and block diagrams
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in FPGA design, implementation, and testing
- Extensive experience implementing FPGA designs and embedded processing designs on embedded hardware
- Experience working with latest generation state of the art Xilinx/Intel Parts and associated tool sets (Vivado, Quartus)
- Understanding of common digital communication protocols (SPI, I2C, UART)
- Development Experience of Integrated Embedded Applications (ARM, GPU)
- Experience with standard bus and streaming protocols, such as AXI and AXI-Stream
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes
- Active Secret or Top Secret clearance, or ability to obtain one desired but not required.
- Experience with design automation, scripting languages (TCL, Python, Perl, Matlab)
- Knowledge of Advanced Firmware Verification Testbench Development (UVM, System Verilog)
- Skilled with Advanced High-Speed Verilog/VHDL Designs including High Speed Memory Interfaces (DDR4, HBM) and High Speed SerDes IO and Protocols (100GE, JESD204B, Interlaken)
- Experience implementing Complex DSP Algorithms on FPGAs using tools such as Matlab, Simulink, HDL Coder to implement advanced communications or other designs in FPGA
- Experience collaborating with software engineering team in an SoC environment to develop designs that incorporate HDL combined with embedded Linux
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Collaborative; capable of working across all levels of the organization
- Organized; comfortable working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
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