FPGA Engineer

JOB ROLE:
Job Title: FPGA Engineer
Location: Mossville IL, Onsite 
Duration: 12-24 months
Experience: 8+ Years
Client: Aditi Consulting / Caterpillar Financials

Position’s Contributions to Work Group: 
Research, design, develop, and test the low-layer software, such as FPGA HDL, I/O drivers, OS integration, boot, etc., which interfaces with Caterpillar’s wide variety of electronic controls hardware (i.e. ECU/ECMs)

Job Responsibilities: 
Key areas of responsibility encountered in this role may include any or all of the following: concept, design, test, document, and promote new software features and processes; perform requirements analysis and decomposition; evaluate new languages, development tools, or processes; perform product maintenance; manage the software lifecycle through version control and configuration management; keep up to date on new technologies or develop new technologies; communicate technical information to customers, team members, suppliers and other units; and support and advise other engineers, managers, marketing personnel, customers and suppliers. Skills: Mastery of HDL design and strong comprehension of the synthesis from specification through to place-and-route. Proficiency with embedded software languages, development tools, and processes, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing, and delivery. Extensive knowledge of embedded computer hardware. Solid programming experience in C or C++. Knowledge of reading schematics and data sheets for components. Ability to troubleshoot issues and make system changes as needed to resolve issue. Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills.

Technical Skills: 
• Real world FPGA experience is key requirement. 
• Real world HDL and synthesis experience must be demonstrated on resume. Secondarily, experience with control software design patterns and anti-patterns, ANSI C, and other programming languages, version management tools, and software development processes such as Agile. 
• Experience designing embedded electronics controls, display, or telematics software, including development of FPGA HDL & synthesis, device drivers, SPI/I2C peripheral interfacing, hardware diagnostics, operating system configurations, non-volatile memory interfacing, board initialization, and other chip-level interfacing.