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Direct Hire opportunity for a Principal FPGA design Engineer in San Diego, California.
As a Principal FPGA design engineer, you will:
- Collaborates with System, other FPGA, and firmware engineers for the development of RU.
- RTL design development, simulation and implementation of the eCPRI interface, uplink, and downlink, PRACH signal processing flows and Xilinx IP primitive.
- Development of the synchronization plane and management plane function and interface, interface to the embedded ARM cores and radio control software, interface to peripherals such as USB, SPI, I2C, DDR4, and others, and implement OTIC test cases.
- Primary engineer for the prototype bring-up, debugging, hardware bug tracking, and functional verification.
- Works proactively with other multi-functional teams to resolve optimum software solutions to improve the quality of the products.
- Responsible to deliver high quality digital designs for the development of the FPGA design for the radio unit (RU) within a 5G NR Base station. Radio unit is based on the ORAN based split 7-2 architecture using Xilinx Zynq RFSoc for the eCPRI Ethernet interface, and lower physical layer 1 signal processing. It also contains embedded ARM cores and high speed ADC/DACs.
- Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.
This is a full-time role
The ideal candidate will have:
- Bachelor’s degree is required, but we highly value Master’s or above. Relevant subject areas include Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics and other Engineering domains.
- 7+ years design experience with Xilinx RFSoc or MPSoc.
- Directly related design knowledge and experience
- Familiarity with Xilinx FPGA
- Good interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Experience crafting RTL for high speed or multiple clock domain designs.
- Hands-on experience debugging FPGA with integrated logic analyzer (ILA) and oscilloscopes
- Experience in modem or DSP algorithm developments in FPGAs or ASICs and successfully shipping products based on them.
- Experience optimizing the segmentation of the design for a target FPGA, synthesizing for FPGA and implementing timing closure.
- Experience with requirement specifications for PCB design and complex PCB bring up.
- Familiar with Xilinx IP primitives and their interfaces.
- Experience with Xilinx Vivado and Petalinux.
- Experience with processing speed, power consumption optimization, and programmable logic resources optimization.
- Familiar with cellular system layer 1 signal processing, OFDM waveform, FFT/iFFT, channel filtering, Nyquist sampling, NCO, multi-clock rate decimation/interpolation.
- Familiar with petalinux and embedded arm core development.
- Familiar with Ethernet, USB, SPI, I2C communication protocol and physical drivers.
- Proficiency in the ORAN standards and OTIC test cases is a plus.
- Proficiency in the 5G NR or LTE wireless communications standards is a plus.
- This position is subject to ITAR which requires candidates to be a U.S. Citizen, Permanent Resident Alien, or Protected Individual per 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) or a foreign national eligible to obtain federally mandated authorizations of U.S. export control laws
Salary: $170k- $276k per year
*Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate’s education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.
Client is offering the following benefits:
- Competitive pay based on experience and an annual bonus program for all employees
- 3 weeks of accrued vacation the first year, higher levels based on years with the company
- No cap on vacation accruals – employees can cash out or save with no limit
- Immediate 401(k) eligibility – with company match
- Pension Program (100% paid by employer)
- 10 Paid Holidays per year
- Generous paid “Sick time” for managing the unexpected and caring for your family
- Medical, Dental and Vision insurance for you and your family with no wait period
- Life, AD&D and Long-Term Disability Insurance (100% employer paid)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Paid time off for volunteer activities
- Employee Assistance Program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Adoption Assistance benefit
- Various wellness benefits including reimbursement for massages and many of our work locations have on-site gyms!
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Job ID : 393723