Digital Design Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

• Plans, performs, and executes engineering research and design development for both new products and existing products.
• Performs design/HDL analysis, including high speed and low power designs.
• Participates in simulation, verification, and integration tasks.
• Takes algorithmic or functional specifications and coverts that to a design that can be implemented for use in a lab or field environment.
• Develop models, simulate and verify designs, fabricate prototypes, and test hardware solutions.
• Creates and maintains accurate and detailed design files.
• Candidate should possess experience in electrical engineering and a track record of demonstrating designs on hardware.
• Digital HDL design experience is required, including complex, high-speed HDL based implementations of algorithms targeting programmable logic devices (PLDs, FPGA, ASIC, etc.), microprocessors, DSP and/or ARM processors.
• Hands-on experience with code design, simulation and testing is required.

Skills:

• Experience with DDR4 memory, terrestrial network standards, DSP processing techniques, and design and debug of complex circuit boards
• Knowledge of MATLAB, Perl, TCL, System C, System Verilog
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
• In-depth knowledge of Xilinx Ultrascale+ and Versal FPGAs.

Education/Experience:

• Greater than 7 years of experience with team based VHDL development processes for FPGA based designs is required, including VHDL code development, simulation, verification, synthesis, high-speed timing closure and hardware-based acceleration
• Must be able to function proficiently in an exclusively UNIX based environment.
• In depth familiarity of UNIX based scripting, Xilinx Vivado, Modelsim/Questa, laboratory test equipment, network test equipment, and source/revision control tools.
• Experience developing implementation architectures from requirements documents or high-level specifications.
• Experience using and maintaining legacy IP and UNIX build environments. Requires the ability to troubleshoot designs operating within an integrated system.