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Project Taara is seeking to fill a digital logic design position for a project focused on delivering high-throughput and long-range connectivity via wireless optical communication (WOC) links. The role is focused on design, simulation, implementation, testing, and verification of digital logic for high-data-rate communications systems and precision line-of-sight tracking systems running on system-on-Chip FPGA platforms.
The position seeks highly-motivated individuals that enjoy working in a small dynamic team environment, with a passion for solving challenging problems that can lead to high-impact advances in technology.
About the Role:
- Collaborate across teams to jointly develop high-speed digital signal processing and control system algorithms supporting free-space optical communications applications.
- Implement custom RTL modules that enable high data rate communications, as well as timing-sensitive feedback-based precision line-of-sight tracking systems.
- Develop testbenches for RTL modules, perform simulation, and verify design requirements are met.
- Integrate third party IP cores into an FPGA system, create custom RTL wrappers for third party cores, and interface with IP vendors.
- Participate in board bring-up activities, system level integration tasks, troubleshooting, and field testing.
What you should have:
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering or similar discipline.
- 5+ years in FPGA/ Digital Logic Design role, with experience in implementing and testing custom RTL using SystemVerilog or Verilog.
- Experience with FPGA design flow including simulation, synthesis, and static timing analysis.
- Experience with Xilinx UltraScale/UltraScale+ FPGAs/SoCs, or equivalent.
- Experience with FPGA high speed interfaces.
It would be great if you also had these:
- MS (or higher) in Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Familiarity with SoC architectures and CPU interfaces as well as data streaming protocols eg. AXI.
- Experience coding in embedded C/C++ (or similar) and common scripting languages (e.g. Python).
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