Senior FPGA Engineer

Responsible for designing, developing, modifying and evaluating electronic parts, components, integrated circuitry for electronic equipment, other hardware systems, or electrical engineering applications. Duties may include analyzing equipment to establish operating data, conducting experimental tests and evaluating results as well as selecting components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability.

Job Description

Mastodon Design specializes in designing and building hardware and software to meet our customers’ next requirement. We focus on offering devices that can be fielded immediately to meet the mission needs that lie directly ahead. Size, weight, power, and packaging are of paramount importance in everything we design and build. Our expertise allows us to rapidly provide these solutions in specialized electronic/mechanical design, embedded & application-level software, reverse engineering & protocol analysis, and RF signals and communications systems. U.S. Citizenship required.  Successful candidates must be willing and able to obtain a security clearance and pass a pre-employment drug screen.

We are seeking an FPGA Engineer to work on the development of our wireless product line.  This role requires understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of designing FPGA solutions for RF products. An ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience designing such solutions in a commercial environment with aggressive time-scales.

Are you seeking a truly creative, challenging technical opportunity? This role requires the ability to effectively collaborate with a cross functional design team. Candidates must possess solid interpersonal as well as excellent oral and written communication skills.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

• BS in EE or similar field and experience in designing DSP/FPGA solutions

• 10+ years of relevant experience

• Ability to obtain and maintain minimally a Secret clearance

• In-depth understanding of HDL coding in VHDL, Verilog and System Verilog

• Pin and Timing Constraints management

• Demonstrated ability to debug complex FPGA designs in system

• Ability to implement and debug complex high-speed architectures like JESD204C, 2.5G, 10G, 40G, 100G Ethernet.

• Ability to implement and debug VITA-49 transport layer in a system.

• Communications systems, associated algorithms and their design. This includes an understanding of RF filters, signal modulation/demodulation, channel equalization/channel estimation, channel coding (FEC), RF signal acquisition, RF frequency control (AFC), RF gain control (AGC)

• DSP baseband signal processing and task scheduling

• DSP Peripheral programming and control

• Programming DSP and FPGA devices using Python, C/C++, MATLAB/Simulink and VHDL

• Self-starter who likes working in a team environment

Any of These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• Interpreting and implementing wireless standards such as 3GPP (LTE, WCDMA, GSM), IEEE 802.11 (WIFI) and IEEE 802.15 (UWB, Zigbee)

• Mixed signal requirements including quantization bits, dynamic range (SFDR), power consumption and the design of baseband equivalent models. Experience designing solutions to overcome imperfections in the RF signal path

• Demonstrated ability in bringing up custom hardware with FPGAs or SoCs

• Experience with SoC’s such as Ultrascale +, Zynq 7000, Agilex, etc.

• Experience with softcore processors such as Picoblaze, Microblaze, NIOS

• Experience with DMA and AMBA Buses such as AXI/AXIS and ACP

• Simulation experience – Understanding of abstracted SystemVerilog classes and packages