FPGA Engineer/ Senior Digital - Contract

Are you interested in working at a dynamic, flexible company that showcases your talent?  Want to join a team of other highly-skilled developers using cutting-edge technology? Do you love tackling complex problems and owning the solutions?

Cardinal Peak is the place for you.

Cardinal Peak is seeking a talented, energetic Senior Digital/FPGA Engineer with at least 10 years of FPGA design experience.  You will collaborate directly with our partners and developers to drive new hardware products and architectures to enable our customers’ market success. This position is a long term contract position based in Lafayette, CO

Responsibilities:

• Design and delivers production quality FPGA releases from initial proof of concept up to production release.  

• Independently performs advanced digital architecture and design

• Work directly with the customer to understand and generate hardware requirements and deliverables

• Support technical reviews and presents both internally and externally

• Work co-operatively with a cross functional team of EEs, firmware developers, software engineers, and program managers to ensure team and product success.

• Demonstrate and apply comprehensive knowledge of electronics design to the successful completion of complex projects

• Develop estimates for complex task duration, supporting the development of a project schedule and budget

• Participate in board bring up and debug for development phases.  

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Biomedical/Computer Engineering

• 10+ years digital/FPGA design experience including VHDL/Verilog

• Extensive experience with Xilinx and Altera FPGA’s

• Ability to use electronic test equipment such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and power supplies

• Experience with peripherals buses such as USB, SPI, I2C, I2S, etc

• Proven ability to resolve FPGA integration and test issues in a hands-on lab environment

• Experience providing reliable FPGA and PCB cost/schedule estimates for development and testing activities

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Bonus points if you have:

• DO-254 or other safety related experience

• DMA Engines, Gigabit transceivers, PCIe, DDRx controllers, Video processing (scaling, frame rate conversion, color space conversion, etc)

• ARM and Intel hardcore, NIOS and MicroBlaze softcore processors

• Experience scripting using Perl, Python, or Tcl

• Experience with Chipscope or SignalTap, RTL Synthesis, and multi-clock designs

A little about Cardinal Peak

Cardinal Peak is a 16-year-old, privately held engineering services company headquartered in Boulder county. Our customers range from Fortune 500 leaders and large tech companies to smaller, innovative start-ups.  

Our team’s broad range of expertise includes server/web, mobile applications, embedded software and hardware. We excel at delivering complete end-to-end solutions and pride ourselves on maintaining a nimble environment that can adapt to our customers’ needs.

Interested?  Let’s talk.

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