Staff Engineer, FPGA Design

Staff Engineer, FPGA Design: You will be responsible for providing technical contributions in developing novel/game-changing cellular infrastructure radio Front Haul Gateway (FHGW) FPGA and contributing to our ASIC solutions. You will be responsible for our solutions' features, architectures, device functional specifications, and performance. You will work closely with a multi-site team of FPGA design, verification, and software engineers to deliver production-quality programmable logic designs with embedded Linux-based wireless communications software to enable our market-leading cellular infrastructure radio solutions.

This full-time position is based in Irvine, CA.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with a team of SW engineers to define, develop, and verify embedded Linux-based SW for Cellular base station radios on custom FPGA designs, including Applications and Drivers for an embedded Linux-based environment and follow-on ASIC solutions.
• Establish unit-level design, implementation, and test strategies
• Perform Synthesis, P&R, and generated FPGA images
• Bring up emulation platform with SW and system teams
• Support integration, test, and debug software for timely closure
• Develop and own functional blocks to be used on multiple platforms
• Hands-on debug capability using lab equipment and JTAG
• Contribute to/review specifications and architectures
• FPGA front-to-back digital design and verification RTL through physical implementation

Job Requirements

• BS in EE/CS or equivalent required
• 10+ years' of working with FPGA architecture, implementation, and verification
• Develop FPGA design specifications, communicate and verify these specifications with the RF/FW designers
• Debug designs and provide timely closure
• Perform Synthesis, P&R and generated FPGA images
• Experience with embedded systems, wireless protocols, power management, signal processing and standard digital interfaces
• RTL design knowledge (Verilog/VHDL) and SystemVerilog
• Knowledge of front-end tools (Verilog simulators, linters, clock-domain crossing checkers)
• Proven knowledge of synthesis, static timing, F2B digital SoC design flow
• Experience with development for PetaLinux (Xilinx-based Linux SW package) incl. development workflow incorporating Xilinx Vivado & Xilinx SDK
• Experience with Xilinx Zynq platform, Vivado Tools (10G Ethernet IP)Experience with Embedded Linux Kernel, Driver, and Application development
• Experience building and integrating SW for a multi-vendor environment e.g. some internal custom SW + Xilinx IP + 3rd-party / open source SW
• Experience with ARM or similar embedded SoC development environments
• Excellent debug skills
• Comfortable with configuration management and version control
• Able to work productively and independently
• Experience with C, C++, python

Desirable Skills

• Prior experience with cellular infrastructure radio development
• Familiarity with ORAN M/C/S/U plane
• Familiarity with netconf2, netopeer2 client/server, yang, SysRepo, SyncE, PTP
• Experienced in RTOS principles and concepts, and hands-on experience in any RTOS
• Prior System on a Chip (SoC) ASIC product development experience
• Good understanding of cellular wireless protocols (MAC/PHY)
• Experience using command-line Git, GitLab and Jira tools
• Able to work effectively with incomplete or changing requirements
• Strong knowledge of mixed-signal concepts