Lead Engineer - FPGA

Job Description Summary

The Lead Engineer - FPGA will be responsible for designing and developing RTL applications, as well as test benches on SoC FPGA targets, for real-time multitasking embedded software applications critical to protection and control solutions involved in the management of high-voltage electrical substations.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Develop new functions in VHDL for RTL design on FPGA.
• Develop/enrich test benches for FPGA in VHDL/Verilog, Python, and C Matlab.
• Editing FPGA timing constraints and analysis of these timings.
• Essential knowledge in the field of signal processing for the study and implementation of FIR-type filtering on FPGA, as well as associated spectral analysis.
• Implementation of multi-cadence FIR on FPGA in VHDL and C on generated code environments.
• Development/testing of polynomial and Fourier interpolation/decimation functionalities for multi-cadence systems.
• Analyze requirements and technical and applicative solutions.
• Adhere to the defined architecture of functions and technical solutions to achieve objectives.
• Write and review detailed design and test documents for implemented software and FPGA functionalities/modifications.
• Estimate the workload of new development (design/development/unit tests)
• Perform or participate in a peer review of the design and code.
• Maintain existing real-time FPGA applications.
• Demonstrate mastery of the deliverable by maintaining high quality through the implementation of test benches compatible with those of the test team and follow-ups with the test team as well.
• Work with the local and international R&D team.
• Follow Agile software development lifecycle processes and methodologies (SAFE Framework and JIRA/Confluence environment)
• Participate in technical discussions and brainstorming sessions on software design.

• Master's or engineering degree in embedded software, electrical engineering
• Minimum of 5 years of hands - on experience of working on on Xilinx (Vivado) and Altera (Quartus) FPGA based embedded systems.
• In Depth experience in the field of SoC FPGA for real-time embedded systems with operating systems such as Linux and VxWorks.
• Minimum required knowledge in signal theories and manipulation of binary word types in a SoC FPGA environment.
• Minimum required skills in Python in a test environment for FPGA.
• Minimum required knowledge in MATLAB/Simulink tools.
• Experience with developing and maintaining embedded real-time applications.
• Interpersonal and analytical skills.
• Ability to work in a strong collaborative spirit, demonstrate transparency, and work in a context of changing priorities with a focus on the customer.
• Fluent in English
• Experience with git version control

• Knowledge in FPGA work environments will be an asset.
• Hands-on experience in Linux and Real time systems development environments, troubleshooting and command line, will be a strong asset.
• Minimum required skills in C, CPP in a test or generated code environment for FPGA.
• Exploit and consolidate FIL "Fpga In the Loop" achievements on Matlab/Simulink on our FPGA target.
• Port FIL to a new Xilinx target.
• Develop new test benches using comtrades.
• Development of low-level drivers in C in a FPGA test environment.
• Implementation of functionalities for hardware acceleration based on Xilinx Run-Time FPGA tools (XRT).