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Microelectronics Engineer
2020-06-03 11:12:54| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
An exciting opportunity for an experienced electronic engineer to work with the Telespazio VEGA UK team, based onsite with a customer, specialising within FPGA development. The successful candidate will be providing technical support to ESA projects in the domain of Field Programmable Gate Array FPGA used in payloads and platforms of ESA missions of any ESA programme Navigation, Science, Earth Observation, Telecommunications, Human Space Exploration or Technology. Responsibilities Duties The successful candidate can expect to be involved in technical support such as Supervision of the endtoend development of new FPGAs throughout all the development phases specification, architectural design, detailed design, place and route, programming and device tests. Critical review of the technical documentation, design files, hardware test platforms and software used during the different phases of the FPGA developments. Providing technical feedback and advice to ESA and industry mission teams to help achieve successful and ontimeonbudget new FPGA developments and to solve problems related to already developed FPGAs. Leading andor providing support to research internal in ESTEC Microelectronics Laboratory andor external with companies contracted by ESA activities in the domain of FPGAs devices and their tool ecosystems for use in space environment. Additionally the following standard work tasks could be part of the technical support Supporting FPGA technology developments for RD and or projects, supervising that good design practices and manufacturing and test methodologies are applied. Independent verification through code inspection, simulation and timing analysis and validation through HW tests will have to be carried out for FPGAS developments. Supporting development contracts regarding the above areas, act as the activity technical responsible, maintain interfaces with the prime and lower level contractors, participate in progress meetings and reviews, as requested, and provide appropriate feedback on the achieved progress and discussions. Qualifications Experience University Masters degree, or equivalent, in electronic engineering or related field with 4 or more years experience in the required skills listed below. Required Skills Design and test of digital FPGAs specifications, block design, top level integration, design for test, pre and post layout simulation and timing analysis, gates synthesis, support during layout, prototype test and in system validation, with proficiency in HDL VHDL, Verilog and SystemC. VLSI IC Design CAD tools such as Synopsys, CADENCE, Mentor, Mathlab andor Simulink. FPGA HW and SW of several vendors such as Xilinx, Microchip former Microsemi, former ACTEL, NanoXplore, Altera andor Atmel. Preparation of FPGA testbenches, for functional validation and electrical characterization, using signal generators, oscilloscopes and signal analyzers. Basic system administration in UNIX and Windows for IC Design CAD tools. Desirable Skills Familiarity with the Space applications of microelectronics, and having knowledge of Space environment and quality requirements Experience with Microprocessors e.g. LEON, ARM, RISCV and HWSW codesign. Experience with mitigation of radiation effects andor radiation tests of FPGAs andor ASICs. Experience with digital ASIC design and experience in ASIC technology is an asset. The work done will however be for FPGA and not ASICs. Knowledge of the Space environment, its effects on microelectronicsdevices and related technology, as well as ECSS quality standards applied to space VLSI ICs. Qualities Strong English language skills Excellent interpersonal skills are needed, A high degree organizational and communication abilities are required Ability to work in a diverse and multinational team environment is essential.
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