FPGA Architect

Role - FPGA Architect

Technical Skills

· Good Understanding in deriving digital ASIC/FPGA requirements specification from higher-level (system or board-level) requirements specifications.

· Proficient in crafting architecture to meet the FPGA requirements.

· Expert in RTL Design using VHDL or Verilog

· Should be able to create / review FPGA architecture document, Detailed design documents, Timing Diagrams, State Machine Diagrams etc

· Good understanding of FPGA Internals – Internal Memory, IO Blocks, High speed transceivers etc

· Experience in writing performance critical RTL logic

· Should be able to select third party or vendor IP cores based on FPGA requirements and integrate them into the system

· Experience working with Xilinx and Altera devices

· Experience using soft processor cores in FPGA such as microblaze

· Very good understanding on RTL synthesis, Implementation, Static Timing Analysis and correcting timing violations.

· Expertise in analysing Static Timing Analysis reports

· Experience in timing closure of high speed designs

· Should be able to support hardware validation of FPGA design

· Should have excellent debugging skills, Should be able to identify root cause of bugs and fix them

· Experience directing a team of engineers for technical excellence

· Experience in developing video processing systems in FPGA

· Experience to standard interfaces like AXI-4, AXI-S, Ethernet, PCIe etc

Job Responsibilities

· Understand customer requirements and develop FPGA architecture design

· Identify independent modules and guide engineers to implement the FPGA design

· Ownership of all the FPGA development activities in the project

· Build good rapport with customer

· Mentor junior design engineers in the team

· Provide guidance for timing closure

· Support team in identifying root cause and fixing issues reported during hardware validation

Would be a plus:

· Exposure to hardware and firmware

· Experience developing FPGA designs for medical domain

· Exposure to FPGA SoC

· Experience leading FPGA development team of atleast 10 members

Communication

· Good and strong verbal and written communication to involved stakeholders

· Should be able to conduct fruitful discussion with hardware, firmware and verification team on high levels, architecture, technical issues faced etc.

Preferred qualification

•  Bachelor degree in Engineering - Electronics Engineering
•  Years of Experience : 12 - 15 Years

Job Location

· Trivandrum