Designing and testing hardware systems, ensuring their functionality and performance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver successful products.
Extropic is hiring a Hardware Systems Engineer to help accelerate our software/hardware development. The ideal candidate would be someone with a passion to develop the best software and hardware solutions.
Skills that are relevant to the job include
- Experience in designing real-time digital signal processing systems using FPGAs
- Experience in signal processing algorithm development and/or optimization
- Experience in system verification and validation for efficiency and reliability
- Experience in designing and testing with FPGAs-Experience with VHDL and/or Verilog
- Hands-on experience with scopes and logic analyzers
- Experience with PCB design and layout
- Familiarity with standard hardware protocols (SPI,I2C,USB,PCIe,MIPI,UART)
- Strong programming skills – Python, C etc.,
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with writing software/HDL for highly parallelized hardware (GPU, FPGA).
- Experience and understanding of system level implementation of complex algorithms.
Very few people will have all of these skills, so anyone with partial overlap is encouraged to apply!
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