Design Engineers

Department: Hardware

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: West Coast, United States, Remote

Key Responsibilities

• Flexibly apply skills and expertise to enable team delivery of success at a project level
• Collaborate with colleagues on the architecture, design, development, verification and documentation of our IP 
• Develop RTL implementations of electronics systems for communication, using SystemVerilog
• Develop test benches for RTL implementations of electronics systems for communication, using SystemVerilog

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

•  Degree qualified (or equivalent)
• 4+ years of experience in relevant field in the industry
• EDA tools for simulation and synthesis (Mentor Graphics ModelSim, Altera Quartus, Xilinx Vivado, Synopsys DC, Cadence Genus)
• AXI interfacing
• Timing and hardware resource optimisation for high throughput data or signal processing applications
• C/C++/Matlab prototyping for design and verification
• Version control and peer review (e.g. Git)
• Documentation (e.g. Confluence)
• Time management (e.g. Jira) 

• Experience of maintaining EDA tools (e.g. upgrades, license manager)
• Experience of creating innovative solutions and documenting them (e.g. in publications or patents)
• Automation (e.g. Jenkins)
• Knowledge of communications signal processing algorithms (ideally error correction, equalisation, channel estimation, beamforming or another baseband component)
• Appreciation of mobile communications systems
• Understanding of telecoms and/or semiconductor industries

• Must be highly innovative and self motivated
• A team player, with an approach to version control and documentation that enables others
• Presentable and with the commitment to build long term viable relationships with all stake-holders
• Able to quickly gain customers’ trust
• Commercially aware
• Exceptional communication skills – written, presentational and verbal

Benefits