FPGA Engineer
Company Overview
At Motorola Solutions, we create technologies our customers refer to as their lifeline. Our technology platforms in communications, software, video and services help our customers work safely and more efficiently. Whether it’s helping firefighters see through smoke, enabling police officers to see around street corners, or reliably keeping the lights on in homes and businesses around the world, our work supports those who put their lives on the line to keep us safe. Bring your passion, potential and talents to Motorola Solutions, and help us usher in a new era in public safety and security.
Department OverviewOur Applied Technology organization puts some of Motorola Solutions' brightest minds on unique, highly challenging projects. Based on decades of experience with our customers, we apply leading-edge technologies to support security and safety throughout the world. We engineer our products from start to finish and manufacture them in-house. We're known for low volume and high capability with focused specialization in areas including software-defined radios, advanced antenna solutions, artificial intelligence and machine learning, cybersecurity, signals intelligence and more. We can't tell you much more about what we do, but we can tell you it's amazing.
Job Description
Daily Responsibilities
- Design and implement FPGA designs used on custom SDRs and other radio platforms using VHDL or Verilog
- Develop and simulate signal processing blocks
- Implement self-checking testbenches and perform verification
- Perform synthesis, place and route and timing closure
- Work closely with hardware and software developers with a hands-on role in product integration and debugging using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc...
- Opportunity to be involved with hardware engineering tasks including design, component selection, schematics, and validation of the entire product
- Perform field testing and customer demonstrations
- Regular interaction with customers for requirements capture and design support
- Mentoring of more junior FPGA engineers
Required Skills
- Experience in simulation tools such as Cadence Incisive (preferred), Modelsim, etc...
- Experience in back end tools and timing closure with Xilinx Vivado, Altera Quartus, etc...
- Experience with develop scripts with Python, Tcl, etc…
Desired Skills
- Experience with the implementation of digital signal processing blocks
- Real-time embedded software development experience
- Working knowledge of basic wireless communication theory
- Experience with developing full-precision and bit exact models in Matlab prior to FPGA implementation
- Experience with working with Xilinx SoCs
- Experience with Matlab/Simulink
- Configuration management tools such as Git
- Schematic capture experience using Cadence Allegro is a plus
- Excellent communications and teamwork skills are essential for interacting with a small project team and customers
Basic Requirements
- Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain necessary security clearance as required by government contract.
- BS or MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering
- 5+ years of experience in FPGA design using VHDL or Verilog
Travel RequirementsNone
Relocation ProvidedDomestic
Position TypeExperienced
Referral Payment PlanNo
EEO Statement
Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status, or, any other protected characteristic.
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