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North Star Scientific Corportion FPGA Engineer Level II in Kapolei, Hawaii
*NSS Level II Electrical Engineer Job Description *
- SUMMARY OF DUTIES:
- FPGA development, including HDL design, IP configuration, elaboration and synthesis, IO pin assignment, routing, etc. for timing critical applications
- Support development of cutting-edge software defined radio (SDR) technology as part of a multi-discipline, multi-site team.
- Troubleshoot applications on custom-built hardware
- Other duties as assigned by the Program Manager and/or Top Management.
- MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
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``` 1. Education: Bachelor's Degree from an accredited four (4) year college or university in Electrical Engineering. 2. Experience: Minimum ten (10) years' relevant industry experience
- Abilities, Knowledge, and Skills:
- Experience with all aspects of FPGA design flow, including HDL design and IP configuration, elaboration and synthesis, simulation and testbench development, I/O pin assignment, place and route, and constraining and meeting timing.
- Experience with hardware debug and troubleshooting, including internal to the FPGA (Signal Tap or similar tool) and external (oscilloscopes, triggers, spectrum analyzer, etc.).
- Experience with FPGA aspects of embedded system design, including bus architecture, register definition, address allocation, etc.
- Experience in standard communication protocols, e.g., PCIe, I2C, SPI, etc.
- Must have a desire for achieving excellence in customer satisfaction, process, and product quality and reliabi
- Physical and/or Medical Demands: Regularly required to stand; walk; sit; talk; reach; climb stairs; stoop; crouch; listen; vision capable of reading, viewing a computer screen and inspection and or assembly of small electronic components; may occasionally lift up to 40lbs.
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``` 1. DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master's degree from an accredited college or university in Electrical Engineering.
- 15+ years relevant industry experience post-bachelors degree
- Demonstrated ability to create an FPGA application from scratch, starting with requirements definition and ending with a fully tested and integrated product delivery.
- Experience with FPGA aspects of custom circuit board development, including interface definition, pin and I/O format selection, basic understanding of schematics, etc.
- Experience with Linux embedded system development, including board support packages, device tree definition, basic kernel device development, etc.
- Ability to debug and troubleshoot complete embedded systems from C applications to custom hardware.
- Familiarity with Git for version control.
- Familiarity with Intel or Xilinx development tools with VHDL
- Experience with the latest line devices and system on chips
- Ability to write basic software applications in C to run on an ARM processor.
- Experience with troubleshooting applications on custom hardware.
- Practical (heuristic) understanding of fundamental RF and microwave principles