Firmware Engineer

Company: FIBERTEK, INC.
Location: Herndon
Posted on: October 20, 2024

Job Description:

Fibertek, Inc. is a leading developer of laser and electro-optic systems for the aerospace community, with key contributions to lasers for atmospheric sensing, laser communications, and lidar sensors for NASA, DoD, and commercial customers.----- We are looking for an experienced Firmware Engineer to contribute to the development of products on our Research and Development Team in Herndon, VA. As part of our R&D division, you will work on small teams to develop, verify, and upgrade the firmware in Fibertek----??s electro-optical systems.

• 3+ years relevant experience
• BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
• Expertise with firmware, preferably VHDL
• Familiarity with Xilinx and/or Microchip FPGAs, and their associated development tools (Vivado & Libero)
• Experience developing in VHDL
• Experience with interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, GTX/GTH Transceivers
• Experience with high-speed memory interfaces (e.g., DDR3)
• Experience developing test benches and running simulations to exercise the design and verify compliance with requirements
• Experience interfacing and working with hardware designers during development and test phases
• Experience using schematics and block diagrams as inputs for the firmware development effort
• Experience using lab instruments (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, etc.) Bonus Areas:
  • Developing Hi-Rel/Space programs
  • Signal processing
  • Spacewire, Gigabit Ethernet, or Aurora interfaces
  • Using IP cores
  • Developing code for microcontrollers
  • Developing code for FPGA embedded cpu cores, such as Zynq and Microblaze
  • Designing GUI-based test software to exercise firmware PIe056ed05f431-30492-33913384

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