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Description:
The applicant must have experience writing embedded software in the C or C languages for embedded systems. They should have a solid understanding of and experience with real-time software principles such as RTOS task scheduling and prioritization, inter-process communication with semaphores and mutexes, memory management involving both the stack and heap, and boot processes. Must have experience interacting with real hardware from a software environment and have experience writing low-level device drivers in both bare-metal and operating system environments, interacting with device registers and chip-to-chip hardware interfaces. Must have experience with boot processes and bootloaders and customizing bootloaders, such as U-Boot to support specific hardware configurations. Experience with low-level communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, and UART are a must. Experience with high-speed data transfer using protocols like PCIe and Aurora are desired.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or a related discipline from an ABET-accredited institution with 8 years of relevant experience or 6 years with MS degree.
Experience with embedded Software/Firmware design.
Experience working with embedded operating systems High proficiency with C/C , and TCL.
Experience in FPGA system design and test from architecture through implementation
Familiarity with modern Xilinx FPGA families and design tools (7-series FPGAs, Ultrascale , Vivado, Xilinx IP cores)
Experience with multiple high-speed serial communication standards and interfaces (e.g. Aurora, 10Ge, PCIe, DDR4/3/2/1, JESD204B)
Experience with standard internal interfaces such as AXI4, AXI4-Stream, AXI4-Lite
Motivated self-starter and problem solver with experience executing in multi-disciplinary teams.
Hands-on laboratory experience with instrumentation, test equipment, and debug/test methods.
Candidate must meet the eligibility to obtain (and maintain) a Secret Clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working with SoC designs such as Zynq and Zynq Ultrascale including architecting and interfacing with peripherals, interrupts, and related bus architectures
Working knowledge of digital/analog/mixed signal electronics, components, and interface/communication standards
Experience with FPGA PCBA hardware design
Active US Secret Security Clearance
Skills:
Firmware, Embedded software, FPGA, hardware design
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$85k-95k (estimate)
05/24/2024
08/07/2024
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