FPGA DESIGN ENGINEER (M/F/D)

Job description

As an FPGA Design Engineer, your main focus will be to design, develop, integrate, and test FPGA/SOC solutions for EGSTON’s existing and next generation PHIL systems.

Your responsibilities

• FPGA/SOC Design and Development for Power Electronics.
• Autonomous development of sophisticated working packages in VHDL / (System) Verilog for AMD (Xilinx) and/or Intel (Altera) devices.
• Usage of High-Level Synthesis (Vivado HLS, Xilinx System Generator, MATLAB Simulink) to speed up development cycles.
• Perform result-oriented analysis and debugging of newly developed packages as well as existing ones.
• Preparing reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation, and maintenance of the developed applications.
• Close collaboration with software and hardware teams to ensure on-time and quality release of the developed applications.
• Supporting industrialization and certification efforts for the newly developed products and the upgrades of the existing products.
• Additional responsibilities include participating in the factory- and site acceptance testing of the non-standard and more complex customer systems as well as technical support for customer demos.

Required qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Embedded Systems or equivalent qualification (advanced degrees are preferred).
• At least two years of experience in FPGA/SoC design.
• High interest and focus on practical experimentation, from the system design, testing and validation, up to product certification.
• Solution-oriented mindset and ability to work in a highly dynamic and fast-paced work environment.

Required skills

• Proficiency in VHDL and/or (System) Verilog.
• AMD (Xilinx) tool flow (Vitis, Vivado, XSDK)
• Language: English (required), German (preferred).
• Knowledge about CI / CD pipelines
• SCM (atlassin, gitlab, github)
• C/C++ (for embedded systems)

Preferred skills

• Practical experience with Yocto
• Practical experience with Intel (Altera) tool flow (Quartus)
• Practical experience with MATLAB/Simulink and Xilinx System Generator
• Practical experience with HIL systems
• (Basic) knowledge of power electronics
• (Basic) knowledge of electrical engineering

What we offer

• An unique career opportunity in an international company aiming to become market leader in our segment.
• A Forward-looking technology-oriented environment with excellent professional and personal development and training opportunities.
• An international team of experienced and motivated coworkers and fast and effective internal communication channels.
• A strong innovative spirit, cooperation with universities and research institutions as well as our customers’ R&D teams.
• Flexible working hours (flextime) and opportunities to work from home.

For this position we offer an annual compensation including a variable portion of at least € 50,000 gross (full-time). The actual amount of your remuneration will depend on your qualifications and your experience and will be agreed upon individually