Job Description

Softnautics LLP requires skilled FPGA design engineer who is confident, self-motivated and has hands-on experience. The successful candidate will be responsible for understanding FPGA requirements, design creation/porting, RTL coding, FPGA validation, simulations, and related activities. The candidate will also lead the team of 3+ members. The role will be part of the VLSI group function in which there is a very strong culture of teamwork, cooperation, and collaboration for common goal of producing quality customer deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Implementation and validation of FPGA solutions for Video/Audio, ML/AI, USB, and related products.
• Work with manager to achieve customer deliverables.
• Contribute individually and lead a team of 3+ members.
• Collaborate with team members to develop and verify the functionality of FPGA, HW, and embedded SW.
• Handle implementations individually by taking ownership of assigned module
• Review work of team and provide status to customer
• Integrate keenly with work from others, thoroughly test all designs while supporting SW team throughout development – debugging/fixing hardware problems as required
• Assist in supporting other staff members as necessary for process flow – including documentation review, customer support, and quality assurance
• Customer Communication – Weekly Calls, Deliverables Progress Meetings, etc.
• Able to meet timelines and provide quality deliverables

Skill Set

Required Skills

• Strong digital design fundamentals and FPGA concepts
• Experience in Logic design with Verilog, debugging, and able to run simulations at block/system level
• Experience in FPGA Synthesis, STA, and timing closer
• Experience in any Processor based system, SoC, AMBA System bus and DMA concepts
• Minimum 5+ Years of Industry Hands-on Experience in FPGA based system design and understand board schematics
• Hands-on experience with Audio/Video/Image Processing related IP integration/enhancements
• Working knowledge of I2C/SPI/UART/Wishbone interfaces
• Hands-on Experience with any of the FPGA Design Tools of Xilinx, Lattice, Altera
• Experience with digital video standards (MIPI, SMTPE, HDMI, Display Port) and associated audio standard
• Strong knowledge in any of the Image/Video Processing Algorithms like image enhancement, auto exposure control, colour correction, noise reduction, gamma correction, white balance, de-mosaic, etc.
• Knowledge of colorimetry, image sensing technology, and digital video formats
• Ability to map to requirements for FPGAs, generate clocking/PLL blocks
• Ability of board bring up and hardware validation
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Self-starter, problem-solving mentality, and creative thinker
• Good in documentation & shall be able to prepare the test plan & test reports from requirements

Desired Skills

• Independently lead the module with 3 or more junior engineers
• Experience in FPGA POC development, porting, and pre-silicon validation
• Positive attitude with readiness to contribute to design/validation area
• Experience with ASIC and/or FPGA designs, network transceivers, PLL’s, power and clock integrity
• Hands-on with Radiant/Diamond and Propel Builder tool to generate FPGA modules for demo applications
• Board soldering/rework
• Knowledge of software languages such as System Verilog, C, C++, Python