FPGA design engineer

Responsibilities:

• design FW for Xilinx FPGA (Spartan, 7-series, Zynq);
• work with Xilinx ISE, Vivado, Mentor Modelsim, Cadence Xcelium;
• RTL design on Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL;
• testbench development on Verilog, SystemVerilog;
• STA review and proper constraints development;
• maintaining already developed projects (fix reported bugs);
• scripts for autobuilds, autotests development (TCL, Perl, Python);
• work with Embedded engineers and SW team on FW integration;
• reading schematics for proper constraints creation, advising schematics engineer on pinout placement;
• writing technical documentation in English on developed FW (block diagram, control registers and functionality description);

Primary requirements:

• degree in electronics engineering or computer engineering;
• experienced in digital designs for Xilinx FPGAs (all stages);
• experienced in multi-clock domains and high-speed digital designs;
• experienced in designing the code, which uses AXI, AHB, APB, PLB, LMB interfaces (master/slaves);
• familiar in creation of the SoCs based on MicroBlaze, ARM (Zynq) CPUs;
• experienced in developing the code for applications, which performs real-time Ethernet packets processing;
• good background in various applications, which transmit data over Ethernet, USB, AES, MADI;
• good background in work with different serial interfaces (I2S, I8S, SPI, I2C, MDIO);
• good background in work with different memory interfaces (parallel/serial flash, SRAM, DDR)
• solid skills in work with Xilinx tools (Vivado, ISE) and simulators (Modelsim, Xcelium);
• ability to read/review someone’s else code in order to fix the mistakes;
• experienced in developing the scripts for doing the simulation or builds (Perl, Tcl, Python);
• solid skills in fixing the timing violations for developed projects with help of various methods – adding the pipeline, using right CDC techniques, constraints, proper tools adjustment;
• ability to work under Windows/Linux OS;
• ability to be a good team player, as well as work independently;
• accuracy, creativity, paying great attention to details, desire to learn;
• ability to work with various measurement equipment (oscilloscope, chipscope, spectrum analyzer, multimeter etc);
• good spoken, written English;

Desirable (optional skills):

• experience in development for audio over Ethernet applications;
• experience in C code development;
• understanding how digital electronics works.

Work conditions:

• Good remuneration;
• Work at international company;
• Good and friendly work atmosphere;
• Nice office in class A business center with large parking lot;
• Possible business trips (Israel)
• English classes;
• Ability to live and work in a beautiful city in the south of Russia with good climate not far from sea and mountains