Senior FPGA Development Engineer Kirkland, WA Research and Development

Echodyne offers the world’s first compact solid-state true beam-steering radar for a wide range of industries and applications. Our high-performance radars work in all weather and are designed for autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aircraft & drones, and security of borders, critical infrastructure, and smart cities. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points.

Echodyne offers its radars to companies working in Automotive, Transportation, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Border Security, Smart Cities, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Airspace Management including Urban Air Mobility (UTM).

In this role,you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary team to createradarsystemssolutionsthoughthigh-performance, secure software solutions.

You will work closely with colleagues to design and build FPGA solutions, mentor junior engineers, and play a key role in shaping the HDL development practices of the team. This role demands technical ownership, systems knowledge, and a strong quality embedded development mindset. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within a collaborative and fast-paced environment.

• Architect, design, implement, integrate, and test FPGA-based solutions.
• Write efficient, robust, timing optimized, and maintainable VHDL/Verilog code.
• Take responsibility and assume ownership for tasks; seeking guidance when needed.
• Develop and execute a plan of action based on design requirements and constraints.
• Hold and participate in design reviews and peer reviews.
• Work with and support team members, both technical and non-technical. Representing yourself to others with a high level of integrity and professionalism.
• Drive improvements to coding practices and tools across engineering.
• Design and develop reusable cross platform architectures and frameworks.
• Help drive and support testing efforts across teams and projects.
• Work alongside radar, signal processing, and software engineers to implement platform functionality to meet specific system control and signal processing needs.
• Mentor and provide technical direction to junior developers.

• Proficient at communicating your ideas, plans and designs to teammates.
• Skilled at delineating scope, preparing work plans, resolving design conflicts, and overseeing design implementation steps.
• Solid understanding of FPGA architectures (DSP, SoC), their hardware/software interfaces, and memory interfaces (DDR, SRAM, Flash).
• Experienced user of FPGA design tools and methodologies, including: simulators and static code analyzers. Specifically:
  Vivado, Quartus, Questa Sim, Blue Pearl, design documentation software, configuration management software (JIRA), and version control software (Git).
• Embedded systems debugging, troubleshooting, and code-testing knowledge using JTAG debuggers, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multi-meters, spectrum analyzers.
• Knowledge of Python, tcl, or other scripting languages for development and testing automation.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle, and good coding practices
• Interfacing embedded systems to host computers and peripherals, using common communications protocols (UART, SPI, QSPI, I2C, TCP/UDP IP)
• Experience with common interfaces such as: AXI, AXI-Stream.

• Experience with one or more high speed interfaces (CML, LVDS, JESD, SERDES, Ethernet/UDP, Aurora, PCI-E)
• Working DSP knowledge including:…