Hardware and Firmware Engineer (FPGA/PCB) for Product Design Team in Rocklin, CA in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

Hardware and Firmware Engineer (FPGA/PCB) for Product Design Team in Rocklin, CA

You will join a small design team where your input will make an impact working on a variety of productions from medical, networking, aerospace industries and more. You will be working a lot of products and design ideas. You will be reporting to the CEO and make significant contribution to cutting-edge products and service.

Responsibilities:

• Provides information for the estimation of project complexity, feasibility and cost at the concept stage of product development.
• Works with end customers to develop user requirements for products.
• Develops lower-level engineering specifications from user requirements.
• Gathers and analyzes data to benchmark and compare the performance of multiple products using specifications or empirical test data.
• Develops and analyzes multiple solutions to user problems potentially prototyping one or more options to provide proof of concept.
• Design prototype and debug analog and digital electronics circuits and microprocessor or FPGA firmware.
• Work with mechanical and software engineers to ensure that all design modules will integrate properly.
• Participates in and hosts design reviews to improve the quality of a design.
• Performs Design for Manufacturability review on designs.
• Reviews designs with end customers to ensure that they meet user requirements.
• Creates and executes test protocols.
• Debugs problems as they arise during verification and validation.
• Documents all designs with the appropriate drawings.
• Presents periodic status updates to supervisor, project teams and/or senior staff on tasks.
• Visits customer sites to perform troubleshooting on existing designs.
• Visits customer sites to discuss products/projects, and observe products in use.

Required Skills:

• Previous experience in drawing schematic
• Previous experience in writing firmware and architecting a design
• Previous experience with medical devices is a plus
• Previous experience with motor controls is a plus
• Design schematics with FPGA’s with analog circuits
• Write FPGA code that does digital signal processing
• Writing code with DSP algorithms
• Having video image manipulation experience is a plus
• Generate a schematic and work with PCB layout
• Writing microcontroller firmware is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to operate small hand tools (e.g. pliers, screwdrivers, hammer, wrenches, etc.), power tools and test/inspection equipment.
• Design both digital and analog circuits.
• Ability to work with software packages such as: Altium, cadence, ORCAD PADs, Vivado, Quartus, Eclipse IDE, or similar tools.
• Benchmark electronic designs and implementations
• Ability to work on projects with general direction and minimal guidance.
• Working knowledge and understanding of the basic principles, theories, concepts, and practices in the applicable area of engineering/technical specialization.
• Proven ability to write clear technical documentation.

Experience in any of the following skillsets is highly desired:

Hardware Design

• Design high speed digital PCBs utilizing FPGAs and microcontroller
• Experience with low voltage power supply design is a plus
• Experience with low noise analog systems is a plus
• Hardware resting is a plus

FPGA Firmware Design

• Program in Verilog (preferred) or VHDL
• Experience with high speed DDR memory controllers
• Experience with high speed serial transceivers
• Understand how to achieve timing closure in a design including handling clock domain crossings
• Experience with communications systems like Ethernet, PCIe, or other similar interfaces is a plus
• Experience with control systems for electric motors and other applications is a plus
• Experience with video processing and interfaces like HDMI, SDI, MIPI, or other similar interfaces is a plus
• Experience with camera image sensor ISP development is a plus
• Experience with manipulating data with DSP algorithms is a plus

Embedded (MCU) firmware design

• Program bare metal applications using C or C++
• Program applications to interface with embedded devices over SPI, I2C, UART, or similar interfaces
• Experience with programming RTOS applications is a plus
• Experience with motor control systems is a plus
• Experience with programming for USB, Ethernet, Bluetooth, or similar interfaces is a plus

Salary Range: $100,000-150,000

Location: Rocklin, CA (relocation assistance is available) - onsite 1-2 days per week

Type: Fulltime

Submit resumes to Jobs@OSIEngineering.com

Diane You

408.550.2800 x130