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Job Description
The Electrical Engineer designs, tests and documents safety-critical hardware. Responsible for developing and supporting FPGA/CPLD designs through all phases of design and system integration for high-reliability embedded aerospace and ground based vehicle systems applications.
Responsibilities:
- Perform activities such as requirements generation, design, RTL-synthesis, test bench development and design simulation, static timing and power analysis, and requirements based design verification.
- Prototype evaluation, design-to-cost tradeoffs, design reviews, qualification test support, system integration support, production and obsolescence support tasks.
- Maintain the desire to stay current in the continuously developing field and to expand knowledge base and skills in FPGA design and digital hardware engineering.
- Works with hardware engineers and senior management to enhance existing applications and build additional applications
- Designs and develops hardware systems
- Tests and modifies hardware to ensure it meets specifications and requirements
- Understands and utilizes internal processes and tools for the development of hardware
- Decisions may have minor impact on cost, schedule, and technical performance
- Contributes to engineering estimates on simple hardware designs
- Improved depth of product domain knowledge
- Bachelor's Degree and 5-10 years’ work experience or Master’s Degree and 3 years of work experience.
Required Skills:
- Experience with VHDL, System Verilog designs and UVM test benches
- Please for Aerospace an DO-254 experience
- 5-10 years circuit design experience, with the demonstrated ability to design HDL-based FPGAs and CPLDs.
- Knowledge of digital electronic devices and circuit design principles. Experience using design/analysis tools, such as Timing Designer and Hyperlynx a plus.
- Hands-on hardware build, test, and integration experience.
- Motivated self-starter with the ability to effectively work in a team environment.
- Excellent problem solving skills, judgment, and analytical capability, along with follow-up and monitoring skills.
- Strong written and oral presentation skills.
- Experience with Matlab and Simulink for auto-generation of FPGA code
- Familiarity with FPGA integration into digital circuit card designs to ensure electrical integrity of FPGA design in embedded applications.
- 5-10 years’ work experience
- Up to 25% Travel
- Minimum Training/Education: BSEE