Firmware Engineer
Irvine, CA

Firmware Engineer

 Qualifications:

·        US Citizen

·        Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical, Computer or Equivalent engineering

·        20 years of experience in Verilog or VHDL designs

·        Ability to architect and partition high speed DSP designs

·        Experienced with the Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+

·        Worked with the Xilinx IP cores including latest (AXI, PCIe, Memory, IO Interface, and others)

·        Understanding the device architectures and tradeoffs in implementing complex algorithms 

·        Image processing and Image compression experience (DFT, filtering, cropping, statistical sampling, etc.)

·        Talented in generating engineering documentations (requirements, block diagrams, and ATPs)

·        Aerospace experience is a plus (Focal Plane Electronics, Cryocooler Control Electronics, etc.)

·        Familiar with Microsemi RTAX and ProASIC family is plus

·        Proficient in generating representations and representing the team in design reviews and technical meetings

 Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

·        Interfacing with customer and creating documents and presentation slides to support design and code review and technical meetings

·        Work closely with a team of software, firmware, electrical, and systems engineers to ensure firmware implementations meet the product requirements

·        Participate in all phases of FPGA design flow – from concept to mass production.

·        Develop high-level design requirements and block-level micro-architectures, partition design within FPGA, and create specification documents with a strong emphasis on creating reusable and maintainable designs

·        Optimize your designs for area, speed, and power to meet system requirements; analyze architectural trade-offs and use of off the shelf IP.

·        Prototype designs on FPGA, focusing on closely emulating the final product functionality

·        Use scripting languages to achieve higher performance and improve productivity through automatio