Senior FPGA Programmer

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Senior FPGA Programmer Job Description Senior FPGA Engineer – Real-Time Control, Vision & Distributed Systems Position Summary We are seeking a highly skilled Senior FPGA Engineer to lead the architecture, development, and implementation of advanced FPGA-based systems for next-generation motion control, machine vision, and distributed automation platforms.

• Lead development of FPGA-based systems including:
• Real-time control architectures
• Sensor acquisition pipelines
• High-speed communication interfaces
• Hardware acceleration engines
• Multi-channel synchronized processing systems
• Design and implement:
• HDL-based designs using VHDL and/or Verilog/System Verilog
• Modular and reusable FPGA architectures
• Deterministic low-latency processing pipelines
• Multi-clock domain systems
• High-bandwidth data movement architectures
• Develop FPGA solutions for:
• Motion control
• Precision positioning systems
• Machine vision
• High-speed metrology
• Electromagnetic actuator control

• Develop FPGA implementations supporting:
• High-bandwidth control loops
• Current control loops
• Position and velocity control
• Multi-axis synchronized motion
• Deterministic distributed control architectures
• Implement:
• PWM generation
• Encoder interfaces
• Real-time feedback processing
• State-space and advanced control algorithms
• Control loop acceleration

• Sub-millisecond closed-loop response
• Hundreds of synchronized control channels
• Distributed real-time execution

• Design FPGA pipelines for:
• High-speed camera interfaces
• Real-time image acquisition
• Marker extraction and tracking
• Edge detection and feature extraction
• Sensor fusion architectures
• Develop real-time processing solutions for:
• Gigabit Ethernet Vision
• MIPI interfaces
• Camera Link
• CoaXPress
• Custom sensor interfaces
• Implement:
• DMA architectures
• Frame buffering
• Hardware image processing accelerators
• Deterministic vision-processing pipelines

• Develop FPGA-based communication architectures including:
• EtherCAT
• SPI Parallel
• SPI UART
• CAN
• PCIe
• Gigabit Ethernet
• Multi-Gigabit Ser Des Design:
• Distributed synchronization architectures
• Precision timing systems
• Networked FPGA platforms
• Multi-node control systems
• Support scalable architectures capable of coordinating large numbers of distributed devices.

• Collaborate closely with:
• Electrical engineers
• Controls engineers
• Mechanical engineers
• Software engineers
• Systems architects
• Support: FPGA board selection SoC architecture development Hardware bring-up and validation Signal integrity debugging Power and thermal optimization Interface with: ADCs DACs Sensors Power electronics Motor drivers High-speed memory systems
• Performance Optimization Lead efforts to optimize:
• FPGA resource utilization
• Latency
• Throughput
• Memory bandwidth
• Determinism
• Power consumption
• Create automated test environments for:
• Functional verification
• Hardware-in-the-loop validation
• Timing closure verification
• Production readiness testing

• Drive technical innovation through:
• Patent disclosures
• Intellectual property creation
• Architecture reviews
• Technical mentoring Best-practice development
• Contribute to next-generation:
• Control architectures
• Vision systems
• Motion control platforms AI-assisted hardware acceleration

• B.S., M.S., or PhD in:
  Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Robotics Controls Engineering Related technical discipline
• 8+ years of FPGA development experience
• Expert proficiency with:
• VHDL Verilog/System Verilog FPGA…