What are the responsibilities and job description for the Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Engineer position at Tekskills Inc.?
Role : FPGA Engineer
Location : Melbourne, FL
Duration : Contract/Fulltime
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.
- Bachelor's Degree and 10-12 years’ work experience or Master’s Degree and 8 years of work experience.
Required Skills:
- Must have Aerospace and DO-254 experience.
- 10-12 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.
- 10-12 years’ work experience
- Up to 25% Travel
- Minimum Training/Education: BSEE
Preferred Skills and Education
- Experience with any of the following is a plus:
- Design experience with Microprocessor/Microcontroller interfaces such as I2C, SPI, CAN bus ARINC-825, memory interfaces such as SDRAM controllers, Flash, SRAM; serial interfaces (MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429, RS422, RS485, AFDX ARINC-664) and FPGA design using Microsemi, Xilinx, Lattice, Altera, etc.
- Familiarity with RTCA/DO-254 hardware development objectives
- Design tools such as Synplify, ModelSim, Questasim
- Experience with high-speed Digital circuit card design, including part placement and routing, constraint generation, and signal integrity analysis.
- Experience with VHDL, System Verilog designs and UVM test benches
- Experience with state machines, code coverage
- Experience with Requirements Management tools (i.e. DOORS), Configuration Management, and Problem Reporting tools.