Job Description

Overview Continental Electronics Corporation is a leading provider of RF technologies and innovative solutions with over 75 years of proven performance. CEC has experienced significant recent growth and has established itself as the go-to supplier for a diversified product line supporting a wide spectrum of markets from commercial products, military customers, to space research laboratories. The Senior FPGA Engineer will design, test, and integrate complex FPGA-based digital signal processing and control algorithms for state-of-the-art RF transmitter systems. This individual will work closely with hardware & software engineers throughout the program development and system installation. Responsibilities

• Define and document functional requirements
• Design, simulate and implement FPGA-based digital signal processing, e.g. baseband signal processing.
• Design FPGA-based circuit card assemblies using schematic capture.
• Develop hardware prototypes, debug and test using oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, logic analyzers, etc.
• Define and coordinate software tasks related to hardware-software interfaces within FPGA-based circuit card assemblies.
• Uphold the company’s core values of Integrity, Innovation, Accountability, and Teamwork.
• Demonstrate behavior consistent with the company’s Code of Ethics and Conduct.
• Report any quality problems or defects to management for corrective action.
• Duties may be modified or assigned at any time to meet the needs of the business.

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering with 8 or more years of relevant experience
• Skilled at translating system level requirements to FPGA solution space
• Proficiency with Xilinx FPGA design flows using both ISE and Vivado. VHDL design entry is essential.
• Detailed experience with full FPGA design process, including simulation, synthesis, implementation, and timing closure
• Recent experience with Xilinx 7 series devices
• Expertise in FPGA-based real-time DSP implementation: decimation/interpolation filters, fractional delay filters, asynchronous sample rate conversion, NCO, Hilbert transforms, FFT and waveform generation.
• Experience with FPGA hardware interfaces related to RF sampling and waveform generation using A/D and D/A converters.
• Experience using version control tools to manage states of files and collaboratively develop them with teammates
• Experience designing re-usable circuits that can be utilized across multiple projects
• Design and implement test fixtures including test plans for both chip level and board level environments
• FPGA-based high-speed memory and bus interfaces, i.e. PCle, DDR3.
• Strong understanding of software and hardware interaction i.e. Linux host/PCle endpoint.
• Understanding of digital signal processing hardware architectures, and preferably FMC module interfacing to FPGA-based carrier card assemblies.
• Familiarity with high-speed PCB board layout.
• Excellent verbal and written skills to interact with project teams, management and customers.
• Must be US citizen and able to be approved for clearance within one year (per client requirements).
• Some travel will be required.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with RF system design, specifically high power and/or high-speed, time-based communication transmissions.
• Matlab/Simulink modeling of signal processing systems, at a minimum able to understand a high-level model and convert to an FPGA implementation
• High-level programming (C), and ability to write simple software applications for FPGA test purposes in Linux environment.
• Practical understanding of time synchronization standards (e.g. IEEE-1588)

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