Senior Systems Design Engineer

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Senior Systems Design Engineer

THE ROLE:

We are seeking an individual interested in creating hardware validation platforms and debugging complex issues involving both hardware and software.

Our team develops hardware systems for pre-silicon and silicon validation of our advanced FPGA and ACAP families.  We use both commercial emulation systems and FPGA-based platforms for prototyping.  On silicon, we develop boards to functionally validate the latest silicon features.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Worked with the leading emulation and prototyping vendors (Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor) to debug issues and deploy new capabilities
• Experience with Emulation of full-SoC design with embedded processors such as ARM Cortex A53, A72
• Experience building, running and debugging SoC system failures on emulation platforms (Zebu, Palladium or Veloce)
• Broad software debug experience with C/C++ and knowledge of low-level assembly programming languages
• Fluent in System Verilog and a familiarity with VHDL hardware design languages, simulation and debug
• Working knowledge of Linux environment
• Experience with scripting languages including Perl, Python, Unix shells and Makefiles
• Experience with Synopsys Design Constraints (SDC)
• Experience developing system or IP prototypes using FPGAs
• Experience using FPGA synthesis tools, including Synopsys Synplify
• Experience using Xilinx Ultrascale FPGAs, Vivado, and Vivado Debug

• Knowledge of high-speed interfaces including QSFP, PCIe, USB, SATA, GB Ethernet, DDR3/4/5, LPDDR3/4, HBM
• Knowledge of devices including SPI, IIC, SD, NAND, QSPI.
• Experience with FPGA-based validation designs based on embedded processors such as ARM Cortex A72 and other hard IP within Xilinx FPGAs and ACAPs

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related equivalent field
• MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related equivalent field
• PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related equivalent field 

LOCATION:

San Jose, CA

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Requisition Number: 171821 
Country: United States State: California City: San Jose 
Job Function: Design  

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