Company Overview
Job Description/Preferred Qualifications
KLA is seeking a talented and motivated senior engineer to fill new position within the Pro engineering group. Our designs employ a combination of low noise analog and highly complex digital signal circuits, which are enabling our leading technology in the advancing semiconductor industry.
The candidate will be responsible for FPGA design for new systems as well as sustaining support for manufacturing and customer escalations.
Main job responsibilities would include:
Designing, implementing, and debugging of FPGAs for sensing and communications systems (cameras, sensors, motors etc.)
Collaborate with cross functional team members to design FPGA Firmware for high-performance mixed-signal systems and solve complex technical challenges
Develop complex, high-speed, innovative FPGA-based designs including design, verification, simulations, synthesis, place and route, and timing closure.
Responsible for RTL design and verification, as well as hardware bring-up and debug FPGA for motion control, sensing and imaging systems.
Optimize FPGA designs for the area, speed, and power to meet system requirements; analyze architectural trade-offs and validate for system sample rate and latency.
Participate in all phases of FPGA design flow, define FPGA design requirement specifications and develop design projects from concept design to wafer inspection tool production release
Understand and capture the project specifications and performance requirements on board and system level. Adhere to project timelines and deliverables
Write technical documentation that meets the defined quality standards as required
These tasks will require working with other engineering groups such as mechanical, optical, software, systems and manufacturing engineers to ensure flawless integration and test at the subsystem and system level.
Requirements:
Hands on experience with complex FPGA design (Xilinx preferred), FPGA simulation, and FPGA timing analysis
Proficiency in Verilog or System Verilog
Proficiency in FPGA simulation tools such as VCS, Modelsim/Questasim or equivalent
Proficiency in FPGA design tools such as Vivado or equivalent
Hands on experience with lab equipment such as logic analyzer, oscilloscope
Solid knowledge of various protocols to interface different peripherals: PCIe, Ethernet, CSSI, DDR4, 10G, SPI, I2C, etc.
Understand FPGA timing analysis and be enable to solve timing related issues
Understanding of clock domain crossing (CDC) techniques
Hands on experience with lab equipment such as logic analyzer, oscilloscope
Solid knowledge of various protocols to interface different peripherals: PCIe, Aurora, DDR4, 10G, SPI, I2C, etc.
Solid Knowledge of networking and Embedded Linux build systems
Advantage:
C/C++ programming language
Experience with microprocessor based FPGA SOC design (NIOS II, Microblaze or ARM)
Experience designing DSP and/or image processing datapath
The candidate must be motivated, self-driven, independent and to possess excellent oral and written communication skills to successfully collaborate with our accomplished engineering team.
Minimum Qualifications
Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 0 years related work experience; Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 3 years; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 5 years
We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.
KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer
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