Senior FPGA Engineer

Epirus•Torrance, CA

19h

About The Position

This is an exciting role at an innovative, high-growth defense technology company. The ideal candidate for the position is someone who has experience designing, verifying, and integrating state-of-the-art FPGA systems and embedded processing solutions for RF applications. As a Sr. FPGA Engineer, you will work closely with a talented, multi-disciplinary engineering team in a fast-paced environment to apply emerging technologies in innovative ways to rapidly produce new products.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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