FPGA Design Lead

4 days ago


Reston, Virginia, United States Ouster Full time
Job Title: FPGA Design Lead

Ouster is seeking a highly skilled FPGA Design Lead to join our Firmware team. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for leading the effort to meet FPGA functional safety certification per the ISO26262 / ASIL-B specification.

Responsibilities:
  • Define, develop, and integrate features across our FPGA stack with a focus on functional safety and reliability.
  • FPGA development including RTL, simulation, high-speed digital design, DSP algorithm development, verification, synthesis, and timing analysis.
  • Lead and perform safety analysis of FPGA subsystems.
  • Contribute to architecture of future FPGA and system designs.
  • Enforce and refine FPGA development process.
  • Perform hands-on work using laboratory tools for board bring up and troubleshooting.
  • Build automation scripts for repetitive tasks to facilitate efficiency and reliability.
  • May manage a small team.
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
  • At least 5 years FPGA development experience including HDL code development, simulation, test bench development, synthesis, and timing closure.
  • Highly proficient with RTL development using Verilog and SystemVerilog.
  • Highly proficient in C or C++ programming language.
  • Proficient in some scripting languages such as Python, TCL, Perl, bash.
  • Embedded system development experience in CPU and FPGA based devices such as Xilinx Zynq or Intel Arria devices.
  • Experience with Xilinx and/or Intel FPGA toolchain.
  • Experience with DSP algorithm implementations in FPGAs.
  • Experience with processor architectures and various communications protocols such as DDR4, AXI, I2C, UART, SPI, ethernet, etc.
Desirable Qualifications:
  • Familiar with HLS (High Level Synthesis).
  • Experience and understanding of safety concepts and ISO 26262, ASIL-B, or similar standards.
  • Experience using best practices with version control technologies such as git.
  • Familiar with leading verification methodologies like UVM.
  • Experience with people management.

Ouster offers a competitive salary range of $190,000 - $250,000 per year, depending on skills, work experience, location, and qualifications. This role may also be eligible for equity and benefits.

We acknowledge the confidence gap at Ouster. You do not need to meet all of these requirements to be the ideal candidate for this role.

Ouster is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Ouster does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military status, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws.


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