Hardware Design Engineer

Hardware Design Engineer

woodcons.com

Senior to Mid-level FPGA Design Engineer to join a team supporting design, develop, simulate, and integrate challenging signal processing solutions for FPGA-based COTS hardware platforms.

Security Clearance Requirements:

This position requires candidates to be U.S. Citizens and possess an active TS/SCI Security Clearance with a Polygraph.

• Collaborate with a multi-disciplined design team (electrical engineers, software engineers and signals analysts) to design and integrate FPGA solutions for COTS hardware platforms incorporating Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ and Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGAs.
• Analyze, design, simulate, and implement signal processing algorithms in hardware description language, HDL (VHDL), based on customer requirements.
• Assist with maintenance of an HDL library of processing modules, creating new modules as needed, optimizing existing modules for speed and resource utilization as required.
• Design and implement testbenches in VHDL for code verification and validation.
• Utilize FPGA synthesis and place and route tools to implement designs for target platforms while verifying resource utilization and timing performance.
• Perform lab functional testing of completed designs.
• Provide technical support for deployed designs

Required Education & Years of Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or university is required and seven (7) years' experience as a HDE in integrated circuit or microelectronic component design is required.
  • Five (5) years of additional Hardware Design Engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Desired Skills

• FPGA design
• Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
• Xilinx ISE
• Xilinx Vivado
• Mentor Graphics Modelsim
• Synplicity SynplifyPro/Premier
• Experience with digital signal processing protocols and techniques

WOOD is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.