FPGA Engineer – Camarillo, CA

Lucix Corporation

Full-Time

Experienced Non-Manager

Lucix Corporation, a subsidiary of HEICO’s Electronic Technologies Group has steadily evolved to become the world leader in RF Active and Passive Units, Subsystems, and Assemblies, for Commercial, Civil and Defense Satellite Payloads. Lucix also provides RF hardware for Airborne and Ground Systems. All hardware is designed, qualified, manufactured, tested, and shipped from Lucix facilities in California, USA.

As an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) Engineer, you will be developing and verifying complex digital designs for use in spaceborne products across our commercial and defense programs. Must be a self-starter & team player who can take ownership of a project from design to deployment under a rapid pace.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design, implementation, synthesis, and verification of digital logic designs for use in FPGA devices as part of Lucix products
• Interface with senior DSP engineers to convert signal processing designs from mathematical models to logic implementation in VHDL code
• Identify which product functions that can be obtained as third-party intellectual property (IP) and which need to be developed internally
• Develop VHDL code for signal processing functions, network interfaces, embedded processor interface, clock management, and other ancillary functions
• Maintain code base in the company’s version control system
• Coordinate with embedded software developers to define interfaces between programmable logic and embedded processor cores
• Develop functional simulations to verify the correctness of the VHDL code implementation, including bit-exact simulation of the signal processing
• Perform bench-level verification of the logic implementation by performing synthesis and loading the resulting bitstream into the target device, and assisting with test of the overall product

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science
• Expertise with digital logic design, simulation, and synthesis with the VHDL language
• experience with the AMD/Xilinx family of devices and tools, including Vivado software
• Experience designing high-sample-rate communication and/or signal processing systems in FPGA devices
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Windows OS, Microsoft Excel
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills
• Strong analytical and excellent problem-solving skills

Desired:

• 3+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience with revision control tools such as Git, Mercurial.
• Knowledge of sampling theory, digital signal processing, and spectral analysis
• Proficiency with MATLAB software

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