Principal FPGA Firmware Engineer

• Design, develop, enhance and debug new and existing firmware (C,Python,VHDL) for our next generation Laser products.
•  Work with electronics hardware, software, and testing teams to define product requirements and develop FPGA vision and roadmap for innovation.
• Architect light-weight FPGA/MCU solutions for digital control system
• Generation of requirements, FPGA coding in various industry tools, FPGA verification and traceability mapping
• Work in a cross-functional team to design, implement, and verify RTL using Verilog or System Verilog HDL
• Develop customized libraries and testbenches to facilitate rapid digital FPGA design deployment and reuse.
• Programming in high-level and low-level languages as appropriate including C/C++, Verilog/VHDL.
• Support estimation activities associated with new and remapping FPGA design efforts.

Required Qualifications:

• BS / MS. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• 8+ years embedded systems design and development experience in an agile development.
• Proven FPGA architecture and design industrial experience with applied knowledge of AMD(Xilinx) and/or Intel(Altera) FPGA devices and application environments
• Demonstrated skills of embedded system architecture and design patterns, formulating specifications and implementation firmware for complex embedded systems
• Strong proficiency in in C, C++, Verilog/VHDL, Python
• Experience designing real-time embedded systems on bare-metal or RTOS
• Expertise designing and implementing complex systems with HDL: System Verilog or Verilog
• Solid understanding of digital design concepts, timing issues and clock domain crossing.
• Good communication skills in English
• Experience in leadership, mentoring, organization and coordination skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Humble, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude, with the grit to get things done. 
• Experience developing Software/Hardware coverage, stimulations, and test.
• Extremely proficient in VHLD /Verilog and C++ programming or equivalent.
• Experience in developing and debugging scripts (Python or similar)
• Debug experience resulting into solving complex Hardware/Firmware interface issues.