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FPGA Developer

Austin, TX 78735

Posted: 04/23/2024 Employment Type: Contract Department: VMS Job Number: 28729 Industry: MFG - Manufacturing

Job Description

Position Title: FPGA Developer

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract opportunity for FPGA Developer with our client located in Austin, TX.

Project Description: The Data Center GPU Remote Management team is looking for an experienced, versatile senior design engineer with experience in both FPGA and uC Firmware development to implement glue logic FPGAs and board management uC. The FPGAs and Remote Management uC implement the Out Of Band manageability sub-systems, interacting with board level components and cutting edge Data Center GPUs. The successful applicant will work closely with other firmware developers, system architects, system validation engineers, manufacturing diags engineers, and board designers across various IPs in leading the designs and implementing firmware that spans pre-silicon and post-silicon for the Flagship Data Center Products.

Job Responsibilities:

• FPGA development (own entire design + testbench)
• Remote management firmware development including feature addition, debugging and test infrastructure development.
• Create automated test plans built using the infrastructure to perform various tests including sanity tests, black box tests, functional tests and regression tests from DUT specifications and interaction with software developers.
• From a great deal of intuition, develop negative tests to actively try to break product and expose flaws before product is deployed in production.
• Setup hardware to facilitate remote/local test execution firmware in the lab.
• Reproduce defects and validate defect fixes found during testing, development, or in production code. Provide logs and statistics that will help in further triaging of defects.
• Provide feedback to design team on bugs and Design for Testability feature requests.
• Integrate automated testing in CI/CD environment (e.g., Jenkins).

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree (preferred) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
• Minimum 10yrs experience in firmware and test development for embedded systems
• Minimum 5yrs experience in FPGA development with the FPGAs
• Minimum 5yrs experience in test bench setup & development
• You have experience with FPGA tools (e.g Vivado, Quartus), HDL Simulation Tools (ModelSim)
• Familiarity with Out Of Band management of servers and its components in a data center environment
• Knowledgeable in industry standard protocols like IPMI FRU, MCTP, PLDM, Redfish, etc.
• Familiarity with microcontroller architecture (ARM, x86) and embedded system build tool suites.
• Version control and CI/CD systems like git, Jenkins, etc.
• Mentoring skills an asset.
• Experience with Graphics a plus.
• Experience with BMC a plus.
• Experience with uC build environment (build scripts, make, git, Visual Basic for Applications)
• Experience with uC programming / debug (ARM Cortex M4)
• FPGA development and test experience with the FPGAs with an eye on reliable designs.
• Software Programming and scripting experience (Python, bash, C/C++) in Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Able to read and interpret board schematics.
• PC/server environment H/W and S/W setup and administration.
• Familiarity with various embedded protocols including but not limited to I2C, SPI, USB, PCIe, TCP/IP, etc.

Job Details:

• Contract: 12 months
• Pay Rate: $60-64 / hr
• Location: Austin, TX (Onsite)

Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.

About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to Software, Electronics, Medical Device, Telecom, and Aerospace companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates.

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