Senior FPGA Engineer

 

About Epirus  

E pirus is a high-growth technology company dedicated to overcoming the asymmetric challenges inherent to the future of national security. Epirus' flagship product, Leonidas, is a software-defined system built using intelligent power management techniques which allow power-hungry systems to do more with less.

Job objective: This is an exciting role an innovative, high-growth defense technology company. The ideal candidate for the position is someone who has experience designing, verifying, and integrating state-of-the-art FPGA systems and embedded processing solutions for RF applications. As a Sr. FPGA Engineer , you will work closely with a talented, multi-disciplinary engineering team in a fast-paced environment to apply emerging technologies in innovative ways to rapidly produce new products .      

Duties   

• Design and verification of RTL modules for FPGA applications
• Ownership of entire FPGA designs from initial architecture trades through implementation, verification, and hardware bringup, including FPGA sizing estimation and IO planning.
• Lead initial testing and bring-up of custom FPGA circuit cards, validating functionality of on-board peripherals including memory interfaces, Ethernet controllers, and integrated sensors.
• Automating test environment (up to and including hardware-in-the-loop testing), lab equipment, and measurement devices
• Capturing design tradeoffs, state machine flow, system address maps, and block diagrams  

Required Qualifications  

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience  in FPGA design, implementation, and testing
• Extensive experience implementing FPGA designs and embedded processing designs on embedded hardware
• Experience working with latest generation state-of-the-art Xilinx/Intel Parts and associated tool sets (Vivado, Quartus)
• Understanding of common digital communication protocols (SPI, I2C, UART)
• Development Experience of Integrated Embedded Applications (ARM, GPU)
• Experience with standard bus and streaming protocols, such as AXI and AXI-Stream
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes
• Active Secret or Top Secret clearance, or ability to obtain one desired but not required.   

Desired Qualifications   

• Experience with design automation, scripting languages (TCL, Python, Perl, Matlab)
• Knowledge of Advanced Firmware Verification Testbench Development (UVM, System Verilog)
• Skilled with Advanced High-Speed Verilog/VHDL Designs including High Speed Memory Interfaces (DDR4, HBM) and High Speed SerDes IO and Protocols (100GE, JESD204B, Interlaken)
• Experience implementing Complex DSP Algorithms on FPGAs using tools such as Matlab, Simulink, HDL Coder to implement advanced communications or other designs in FPGA
• Experience collaborating with software engineering team in an SoC environment to develop designs that incorporate HDL combined with embedded Linux
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Collaborative; capable of working across all levels of the organization
• Organized; comfortable working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment  

 

ITAR REQUIREMENTS: 

• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR  here .

At Epirus,  you’ll  work with technical peers and great people—and get first crack at some of the defining technology challenges of our time. Here, “impossible” is just a challenge.  We're  a diverse, fast-growing team of change-makers fueling the future of energy with revolutionary solutions.  Join us and rewrite the rules.  

 

 

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