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Senior FPGA Engineer

Senior FPGA Engineer

CompanyAstranis
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
Salary$170000 – $235000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s, PhD
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent
  • 5+ years of experience
  • A passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development
  • Experience in designing, implementing, and testing high throughput systems implemented on FPGAs
  • Familiarity with system level estimates and implications of power, thermal, and real estate
  • Strong proficiency with Verilog/SystemVerilog for both synthesis and verification
  • Writing test benches and FPGA verification at module level and at top/system level
  • Experience with C/C++ bit accurate modeling of RTL modules.

Responsibilities

  • Design RTL for high data rate, software defined radios
  • Work with multiple FPGAs and toolchains
  • Interface FPGAs with high speed data converters, memories, MCUs
  • Design, implement and test radiation mitigation schemes on FPGA
  • Collaborate closely with DSP/radio algorithm designers
  • Collaborate closely with embedded firmware and software engineers
  • Assist in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team.

Preferred Qualifications

  • MS or PhD in computer engineering or equivalent
  • Considerable expertise in at least 1 domain beyond just the logic design. This could be DSP/radio design, software, encryption, FEC encoding/decoding.
  • Experience with Xilinx Ultrascale/Ultrascale+/Versal FPGA’s
  • Experience with Vivado IDE, TCL
  • Experience with high speed data converters (ADCs, DACs, JESD204)
  • Experience with UVM and DPI simulation methodologies
  • Experience with circuit level debugging
  • Experience with digital communication theory and implementation, DVB-S2X modulation/demodulation, FEC encoding/decoding as LDPC, Turbo, Reed-Solomon, Channelization, FIR/IIR filtering, I/Q signaling.
  • Experience with space-based systems, Radiation tolerant design, such as TMR and ECC
  • Experience with a scripting language like Python or Perl or Tcl