Seeking a Senior FPGA design engineer with 7 to 15 years of experience. In this role, you will drive innovative solutions in the Semiconductor Test Group at Cohu. At Cohu, semiconductor test solutions span digital, RF, and mixed signal applications.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
This role is an exciting opportunity to design challenging solutions for semiconductor test instruments. You will be involved in all stages of product development from initial concept through release to manufacturing. You will be working alongside other FPGA designers as well as collaborating with software and hardware engineers to drive compelling FPGA solutions to solve complex system requirements. This role is for FPGA implementation to support key functions across multiple test instrument families. This includes:
- High speed PCIe
- High bandwidth DDR memory
- Waveform generation and digitization
- DSP implementation
- Precision analog signal control and calibration
Work activities involve:
- FPGA design using AMD and Intel FPGA devices
- RTL design and simulation
- System-level FPGA architecture definition and translation of instrument requirements into RTL implementations
- High-speed interfaces and memory subsystem design including JESD, PCIe, DMA, and DDR4/5
- Board-level debug, and lab bring-up using standard lab equipment
- Revision control and configuration management
- Collaboration with software and hardware engineers to ensure proper integration of a complete test instrument
- Interaction with other functional groups and coordination with outside design resources
- Must be a self-motivated individual to work in a fast-paced environment
- Generation of technical documentation and reports
Required Qualifications:
- BS, MS, or PhD
- Minimum 7 years of experience with RTL and FPGAs
- Expertise with RTL design and simulation
- Experience with AMD (Xilinx) or Altera tools
- Proficiency using simulation tools such as Modelsim, VCS, or Xcelium
- Verilog/System Verilog language experience
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team and follow through on assignments with minimal supervision
- Attention to detail and high degree of accuracy
- English language proficiency
Desired Qualifications:
- Working knowledge of Python
- Working knowledge of C/C++
- Formal verification experience
- Experience with AMD (Xilinx) or Altera SoC devices and toolchains
Skills Required
- BS, MS, or PhD
- Minimum 7 years of experience with RTL and FPGAs
- Expertise with RTL design and simulation
- Experience with AMD (Xilinx) or Altera tools
- Proficiency using simulation tools such as Modelsim, VCS, or Xcelium
- Verilog/SystemVerilog language experience
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team and follow through with minimal supervision
- Attention to detail and high degree of accuracy
- English language proficiency
- Experience with high-speed interfaces and memory subsystems (PCIe, JESD, DMA, DDR4/5) and board-level debug
- Working knowledge of Python
- Working knowledge of C/C++
- Formal verification experience
- Experience with AMD (Xilinx) or Altera SoC devices and toolchains
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What We Do
Cohu is a leading supplier of semiconductor test and inspection & metrology handlers, micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) test modules, test contactors, thermal sub-systems and semiconductor automated test equipment used by global semiconductor and electronics manufacturers and semiconductor test subcontractors. Our product portfolio is focused on increasing yield, reducing cost of test, and accelerating time-to-market. Cohu is a publicly traded (NASDAQ: COHU) global company with headquarters in Poway, CA. We have a global footprint with ~3,000 employees. We are the leading supplier of Semiconductor Test and Inspection & Metrology Handlers and Test Contactors. We have market leadership in RF Power Amplifier/Front-End Module Testing.
