FPGA Engineer-15-230

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

Benefits: We offer a comprehensive benefits package to full time employees which includes:

• Healthcare (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• HSA and FSA
• Traditional 401(k) with company match
• Company Sponsored Basic Life Insurance, AD&D and LTD
• Voluntary Coverages (Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity, Supplemental Life Insurance
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• We have a 9/80 workweek that provides employees with every other Friday off

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Lucix Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, military status, sexual orientation, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelors 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
• Knowledge of sampling theory, digital signal processing, and spectral analysis.

Desired:

• 8+ years of relevant industry experience
• Knowledge of communication waveforms: QPSK, 8-PSK, DVB-S2, and similar
• Experience with revision control tools such as Git, Mercurial
• Proficiency with MATLAB software