Location:  Rancho Cordova, CA, USA

Hardware FPGA Engineer

Barco designs technology that makes everyday life a little better. Seeing beyond the image, we develop sight, sound, and sharing solutions to help you work together, share insights, and wow audiences. Our focus is on three core markets: Enterprise (from meeting and control rooms to corporate spaces), Healthcare (from the radiology department to the operating room), and Entertainment (from movie theaters to live events and attractions). With a team of over 3,600 employees, located all around the globe, we realized sales of 1,082.6 million euro in 2019. 

The job in this posting is for the Hardware design team of the Image Processing Product Group, which is part of the Immersive Experience Business Unit of Barco. The Image Processing group is a diverse, multi-national team with primary business activities in Rancho Cordova, part of the Sacramento Capital region of California. This team designs products used primarily in Live Events, such as corporate presentations, trade shows, car shows, concerts and other events. As demanded by market needs, the products are purposely built, rugged electromechanical enclosures, utilizing proprietary Hardware and Software to process a multitude of video inputs, compose the images in real time with minimum delay and output to display devices (LED screens, Projectors, LCDs etc). The Event Master series of products has been dominant in the event markets since 2014. The team is currently working to release the next generation Event Master Encore3.

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.

Detail Job Responsibilities and Requirements

• Large FPGA design: 
  • HDL design language experience:  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. 
• 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 TCL, Python is helpful. 

Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Electronics or Computer Engineering.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience. To include experience in real-time video and image processing.
• 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.

Barco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition or AIDS/HIV status, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, military, veteran status, marital status, citizenship or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. 

If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process at Barco, please contact our HR department at 1 678 475 8000.  Please specify the reasonable accommodation you are requesting, along with the job posting number in which you may be interested. A Human Resources representative will review your request and contact you to discuss reasonable accommodation.  

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