This is a Senior FPGA Engineer position in the Transport and Switching FPGA team.
- Architectural / top-level ownership of sophisticated FPGA designs both data path and control
- Can work with minimal direction, exercises good judgment in achieving project/department goals
- Aid in project planning
- Involved in all aspects of FPGA design
- Conception / architecture
- Top-level partitioning / backend / constraints
- RTL coding
- Verification
- Lab bringup / debug / validation
- Work with hardware and software design teams during design and integration phases
- Work with verif prime to develop verification strategies
- Work with designers to develop lab test strategies
- Consult and work with product architects and PLM
- Demonstrate experience to guide management in technology and design decisions
- Mentoring of junior team members
- Identify IP (re-)use both in-house and third party
- Stay on top of technology and product developments in the FPGA space
- Evaluation of new tools and processes
- Attend vendor and industry conferences
- Support IT / PV
- Customer issue investigation / resolution
What technical experience and personal skills are required for this role?- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent
- 8 years validated experience as an FPGA/ASIC design engineer
- Proven technical management of large sophisticated FPGA devices with area and timing challenges
- Excellent communications skills
- Ability to balance multiple tasks/responsibilities at the same time
Experience/knowledge outside of FPGA: board and/or embedded s/w knowledge an asset - Outstanding RTL design skills
- Detailed understanding of back-end constraints and entry into vendor flow
- Detailed knowledge of the latest design tools (i.e. Vivado, Quartus)
- Experience with UVM verification environments
- Knowledge of transport system design and related protocols (OTN/SONET, Ethernet, etc).
- Knowledge of protocols such as FC, SDI video, IB, CPRI is an asset
Verilog/VHDL, SystemVerilog/UVM - Scripting (Tcl/Perl)
- Linux
- IP integration
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment
- Excellent interpersonal and team skills
- Highly motivated and creative
- Passionate about long term sustainability
- Well organized, thorough, and detail-oriented
