Senior Design Engineer - FPGA

Purpose of the job

The Senior Engineer will play a key role in the design, development, and implementation of engineering projects. This position requires a solid understanding of engineering principles and the ability to apply them effectively. The Senior engineer will work autonomously and collaboratively with lead engineers and managers to ensure the successful completion of projects.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the development of Image Processing products within the IX R&D team. These products perform real time video and image processing and compositing for display on LED, projection and other displays. The products are part of highly visible systems in environments such as corporate events, rock concerts, television studios, House of Worship, Trade shows and fixed installations. The candidate will take responsibility for the quality completion of designated features and design suitable solutions to complex problems while working as a member of the Image Processing R&D team.

General Job Responsibilities:

• To ensure that the design, implementation, and testing/verification of the system is within the constraints: time, cost, specification & quality targets.
• To ensure that the implementation confirms to the Company common guidelines and best practices.
• To evaluate & assure that the market requirements are being understood and become part of the project (specification, verification). Develop system design from marketing requirements into functional specifications and partition the overall product design into realizable sub-modules.
• To develop component/complex module level specifications from higher level specifications.
• To review test cases developed by the test team to verify the implementation against the specifications.
• Find and analyze available information for working out and proposing solutions to the problems; analyze test results and test plans w.r.t. functional coverage.
• Interact with the R&D team to achieve the consistency of the work with the overall design and to share knowledge.
• To collect/prepare the documents (documentation and reports) of the related design/module/sub-assembly in time as per the project plan.
• Ensure that the given milestones are being achieved. Review test plans and quality reports, report problems on time if goals cannot be reached.
• Decide about design alternatives.
• To be the primary technical domain knowledge owner of a technology or technology platform.

Detail Job Responsibilities and Requirements

• System Architecture Design: 
  • Convey architecture ideas using easy to understand drawings, block diagrams, flow-charts... 
  • Remain flexible regarding your architecture ideas and able to listen to other ideas and pivot
  • Come up with realistic estimates regarding the performance and resource usage of FPGA architecture before detailed design has begun. 
• Very Large FPGA design: 

• • HDL design language experience: Verilog, System Verilog  preferred. 
  • Experience with Xilinx and or Altera design environments. 
  • Ability to break up complex design into logical modules. 
  • Design and code modules for reuse. 
  • Organize and document modules for ease of use in future designs. 
  • Document memory map and programming instructions for the software team. 
  • Good coding style practices: formatting, comments, variable names, etc 

• • Identify and address potential synthesis/routing/fitting problems. 
• Very Large FPGA debug: 
  • Identify/Locate potential timing problems in a large FPGA design. 
  • Debug problems using Chip-Scope or equivalent. 
• Cross discipline communication 
  • Communicate well with other disciplines: software, product owner, test... 
• Simulation 
  • Modelsim experience preferred. 
  • Flexible test bench design that can be adapted to various scenarios encountered in the FPGA. 
• Scripting 
  • Develop test scripts to assist on FPGA bring up. 
  • Experience with scripting languages like TC, Python is helpful. 

Qualifications/Competencies

• BS or MS in Electronics or Computer Engineering.
• 8+ years of relevant experience. To include experience in real-time video and image processing.
• Very large FPGA design is a must
• Advanced technical skills i.e. Hardware design, FPGA design, System Verilog HDL, Embedded software, Different software and scripting languages.
• High level of intellectual affectivity and flexibility.
• Analytical skills.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills. 
• Takes Initiative; is a self-starter
• Ability to both, work independently, and effectively collaborate and achieve results as part of a team
• Good time management and multi-tasking