FPGA Designer

We're looking for a FPGA Engineer to join our Optronics team in Granada, Spain.

Our Technology:

Safran is a global leader in optronics, delivering cutting-edge electro-optical systems for defense, aerospace, and security applications. Our portfolio features cutting-edge multispectral imaging technologies, including both infrared and visible spectrum sensors. These technologies are integrated into airborne, naval, and land platforms, supporting missions from surveillance and reconnaissance to targeting and navigation. Safran’s optronic solutions are trusted by armed forces worldwide for their reliability, performance, and technological superiority.

We’re also a world leader in Resilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing (R-PNT) solutions that improve the reliability, performance and safety of critical applications, and high-risk operations, even in GPS/GNSS denied environments. We provide virtually fail-safe GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) and PNT (Positioning, Navigation and Timing) solutions for military and commercial applications worldwide.

To this end, we have developed industry-leading solutions that are built around a sound foundation of ultra-accurate synchronization (sub-ns) and frequency distribution services. These combine to deliver a broad set of products and technical solutions based on the enhanced White Rabbit PTP (Precision Time Protocol) synchronization technology for myriad applications, ranging from timing distribution in financial networks to robust and reliable positioning.

In addition, we are experts on control systems and diagnostics applications for particle accelerators and scientific facilities. We provide highly innovative elements and dependable solutions with always time at the essence of the solution.

The position:

We are looking for an FPGA Engineer specialized in image and video processing who is highly motivated to work with a talented and diverse engineering team to address the development of a high-performance multi-camera platform for airborne systems. The platform integrates multiple video streams and requires advanced real-time video processing to deliver a unified output to the pilot for better visual perception in a degraded environment.

As part of the optronics engineering team, you will be responsible for implementing key FPGA image and video processing functions such as:

- Video acquisition and preprocessing from multiple camera sources.

- Video distribution with left/right channel segregation.

- Integration with avionics and video interfaces such as 3G-SDI, ARINC 429, Ethernet and MIL-STD-1553 for synchronized data exchange.

- Automatic histogram control for dynamic contrast optimization.

- Global contrast harmonization to ensure seamless blending of multiple video sources.

- Image stitching for enabling a wide field-of-view visualization.

- Real-time image extraction.

The ideal candidate for this role is someone who is able to work proactively and closely with other cross-functional engineering groups such as industrial design, product design, production test, FPGA and hardware engineering.

What you’ll be doing: 

· Work with a friendly and positive team to design new high-performance multi-camera platform for airborne systems.

· You will work on international projects with the latest and greatest in video processing technologies!

· You will have responsibility for understanding requirements, developing innovative projects, planning new features, and ensuring that all developments are delivered according to specification.

· Collaborate with Hardware, FPGA, and Mechanical Engineers to ensure the platform works for its intended purpose.

· You will use your critical thinking and problem-solving skills to ensure the highest quality for the results considering scheduling, budget, and effort constraints.

· You will have effective, constant communication with other project partners and project managers all the way from the kick-offs to the stakeholder meetings.

· You will participate in internal meetings to build a comprehensive work plan, manage the budget and personnel effort for projects.

· You will write deliverables, dissemination material, assist in project-related communication activities, and attend workshops and other events.

· You will be developing key FPGA image and video processing functions. Validation of the design will be an important part of the position, and you will be expected to produce test benches, simulations, and experimental evaluation strategies to verify the prototypes.

What You Bring to Safran:

· A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Telecommunications, Electronic or Computer Engineering.

· Passion, energy, and high motivation to participate in industrial R&D projects and initiatives.

· Teamwork, organization skills, autonomous work, and project management.

· Good written and communication skills in English.

· Knowledge of Xilinx FPGA tools and platforms (Vivado, Vitis, HLS, …).

· General understanding of FPGA logic design and verification.

· FPGA logic design (VHDL/Verilog, SystemVerilog, test bench implementation, debugging, timing closure, ...).

· Proven expertise in implementing and debugging FPGA IP cores for video-processing algorithms (filtering, segmentation, edge detection, object detection, tracking, etc...).

· Extensive experience in repositories and version control systems (Git, SVN, …).

· Minimal experience required: 3 years.

Desirable skills. The company will positively consider knowledge and experience working with:

· Knowledge of avionics and video interfaces such as 3G-SDI, ARINC 429, Ethernet and MIL-STD-1553.

· Proven expertise in Design Assurance Level (DAL) compliance, particularly DAL C, for airborne platforms.

· Knowledge of advanced FPGA applications in image/video processing:

◦ Basic Image Processing: Filtering, Thresholding & Binarization, Morphological operations, Color space conversion, Histogram equalization & contrast adjustment.

◦ Feature Extraction & Analysis: Edge and corner detection, Keypoint detection, Feature descriptors & matching.

◦ Object Detection & Tracking: Background subtraction, Real-time object detection, Optical flow estimation, Object tracking.

◦ Stereo Vision: Stereo matching & disparity map computation, Multi-scale stereo vision, 3D reconstruction using FPGA-accelerated pipelines.

◦ Video Processing: Motion detection, Video stabilization, Compression & encoding, Real-time video enhancement.

◦ Image Mosaicking & Registration: Image stitching and mosaicking from multiple overlapping views in real-time, Image alignment and warping, Multi-camera fusion for panoramic or wide-area, Low-latency mosaicking pipelines.

· Previous experience in R&D projects.

· Basic knowledge of some programming languages for embedded systems (C, C++, Python...).

· Knowledge of SCRUM, JIRA or agile methodologies.

The keys of our offer: 

· Be part of a leading and expanding company.

· Health insurance.

· Flexible work schedule.

· International and dynamic environment in Granada, Spain.

· High possibilities to grow inside the company.

· Professional Career Plan.

· Salary flex.

Safran is an equal opportunity employer who does not discriminate based on race, color, citizenship, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran’s status or any protected category. We encourage veterans and people with disabilities to apply.