We at Kandou are a team of passionate professionals striving to make a mark in the trajectory of the semiconductor industry. Our list of customers reads like a who’s is who of the technology world. If you love to be part of an adventure of a start-up challenging established tech giants and you are a proactive problem-solver who is motivated by pushing your limits and challenging the status quo, we have an opportunity for you.
Kandou is actively seeking a resourceful FPGA Engineer contractor.
Responsibilities
- Support FPGA prototyping for high speed digital designs for PHY/SerDes IP
- Validation and bring-up of devices and FPGAs in the lab
- Work closely and support Kandou’s Firmware, Digital, Verification and Lab teams
Skills
- FPGAs design/prototyping of blocks for multi-Gigabit serial and parallel data-link transceivers
- Strong RTL coding skills (SystemVerilog preferred)
- Scripting (Python preferred) and tool setup skills.
- Good communicator and team player with strong analytical skills
- Understanding of verification methodologies, in particular UVM, is an advantage.
Experience
- 10+ years’ experience in prototyping digital designs in FPGAs
- Technical background in FPGA design, validation and verification
- Experience in industry standard FPGA tools for design, simulation and verification
- Experience in digital high-speed blocks. High Speed interface competence and/or PCS experience would be a plus
- Experience using Python or other scripting language for design validation
Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience prototyping digital designs in FPGAs
- Technical background in FPGA design, validation, and verification
- Experience with industry-standard FPGA tools for design, simulation, and verification
- Experience designing or prototyping FPGA blocks for multi-Gigabit serial and parallel data-link transceivers
- Strong RTL coding skills, preferably SystemVerilog
- Experience with high-speed digital blocks
- Experience using Python or another scripting language for design validation
- Strong analytical, communication, and teamwork skills
- PCS or high-speed interface experience
- Understanding of verification methodologies, particularly UVM
What We Do
Founded in 2011, Kandou is the innovative leader in high-speed, energy efficient, chip-to-chip link solutions critical to the evolution of the electronics industry. Kandou enables a better-connected world by offering disruptive technology through licensing and standard products that empower the devices we use every day to become smaller, more energy efficient and more cost effective. Kandou has a strong IP portfolio that includes Chord™ signaling, which has been adopted into industry specifications by JEDEC and the OIF. These innovations and implementations deliver a fundamental advance in interconnect technology that lowers the power consumed and improves the performance of chip links, unlocking new capabilities for customer devices and systems. Kandou is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland with offices in Europe, North America and Asia.
