Senior Engineer II - Software Design

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Job Description:

This position is an excellent opportunity for someone willing to work on making himself/herself a domain expert & mastering in EDA SW development with touch of FPGA HW. The individual will work on deeply understanding Silicon/FPGA architecture and inside complex IPs/core blocks and bring a tcl based core to configure the block functionality. Few complex cores will have C++ based UI developement.

The individual must have strong knowldage & expereience on various FPGA IPs/Cores, protocols and memories and should interact with stake holders to conclude on configuration options in UI. In addition, the individual must be able to work in a fast-paced, high-demand, multiple-deadline driven environment.

Responsibilities:

• Read and understand the Silicon Architecture specifications.
• Define macros/primitves and guide and/or develop the software core to configure IP blocks in Microchip FPGAs like SERDES, Etherent, PCIe, PLL and Memories (DDR, RAMs and uPROM) involving tcl based core development, UI development and Netlist generation.
• A tcl based core development to generate Verilog netlist to connect various macros/primitves. Few complex cores will involve UI development using C++ and Qt frameworks.
• Generation of design files (netlist, register settings, timing constraints files) for various hard IP blocks in Microchip FPGAs.
• Should be able to capture the requirements and create Software requirements document.
• Should be able to create simple designs to test the Synthesis & PnR flow for generated netlist.
• Should be able to estimate the efforts and provide the plan for completing the requirements.
• Propose / review test plans
• Work across with multiple teams in accomplishing the tasks.
• Assist and train Juniors engineers
• Debugging and Bug fixing

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters in Electronics Engineering
• 7+ years of experience in EDA software core development
• Experience with industrial standard protocols like PCIe, High speed Serial Connectivity Ethernet, SPI, I2C, USB, GPIO, AXI/AHB and Memory architectures DDR/SDRAM/DMA
• Exposure to FPGAs and FPGA software tool chain
• Experience in writing scripts in Tcl/Perl/Python
• Experience in Verilog, Developing GUI using Qt is plus
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills are must
• Experience in software development using C++ Programming Language is plus
• Good verbal & written communication
• Good attitude, result driven & ability to deliver on next gen technology

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