Senior Hardware Design Engineers

Department: Hardware

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: West Coast, United States, Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Expert knowledge of Verilog and SystemVerilog for complex ASIC/FPGA products
• Minimum 5 years of experience in industry, designing and delivering successful FPGA/ASIC designs implementing multiple Gbps high-speed data communication and connectivity protocols or baseband processing
• A strong skillset in delivering digital designs in the ASIC and FPGA industry 
• A strong work ethic and focus on completing designs on time to meet customer delivery schedules
• Optimisation of timing and hardware resources for high throughput data or signal processing applications. Experience in power management techniques, synthesis and timing analysis
• Track record in collaborating across teams to produce integrated solutions
• Experience in technical documentation writing – design specifications, user guides, verification plans
• Expert user of EDA tools for simulation and synthesis

• Knowledge of 3GPP L1 and digital communications signal processing algorithms (such as error correction, equalisation, channel estimation, beamforming) 
• Familiarity with the AMBA/AXI bus protocols
• Understanding of UVM verification techniques or practical experience using UVM for IP verification
• Experience using C++/SystemC for design modelling and integration 
•  Experience with high speed interfaces such as PCI-E or JESD
• Knowledge of a scripting language, such as Python
• Knowledge and appreciation of project methodologies across the design lifecycle, including agile and waterfall, requirement capture and traceability
• Experience with AMD FPGAs and the associated design tools or with any EDA’s ASIC backend tools

Benefits