Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com .

It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

Who will you be working with?

Our best-in-class Control Electronics team combines knowledge of micro-electronics hardware design, firmware, packaging, and validation with deep domain expertise to develop new products with cutting-edge technologies. You will have opportunities to work with other engineering teams, product management teams, supply chain teams, as well as our suppliers to deliver high quality and reliable electronic products for the Freight Locomotive and Off High Vehicle industry.

How will you make a difference?

The FPGA/Firmware Design Engineer will design, develop and validate advanced digital logic for the electronics team and provide key technical contributions to near term and longer-range projects with substantial business impact. Strong initiative and organizational skills are required to manage the projects and deliver program goals.

What do we want to know about you?

• Minimum of 10 years experience developing FPGA logic and low level software / firmware in real-time embedded environment.

• Excellent digital design skills including the design of state machines, soft cores, clock domain management, and I/O interfaces.

• Firm understanding of electronic schematics, printed circuit board design and test, as well as hands on experience in simulation / design validation tools preferably ModelSim.

What will your typical day look like?

• Lead the FPGA/Firmware development efforts at Wabtec Freight and equipment business

• Develop FPGA based control, processing and communication solutions in an embedded real-time control environment utilizing the latest Xilinx / Znyq / Artix technology and Vivado development tools

• Work with electronics hardware, software, and system teams to define product requirements and develop FPGA vision and roadmap for innovation

• Develop distributed digital CPU core technology involving Freescale microprocessors and Xilinx FPGA’s / CPLD’s

• Partition processing, communication and control tasks for optimized core efficiency and real-time software / firmware task management simplification

• Develop and articulate FPGA/digital core vision and work with internal and external teams to establish FPGA based platform technology and culture

• Establish performance and robustness in terms of sensor and peripheral sampling, stimulation and control using Nyquist, sampling methods, state machine control, data control, microprocessor interfacing and interrupt design and management

• Establish design and quality methods, specifications, documentation, verification, test benches, best practices and VHDL / Verilog coding standards.

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