FPGA Design Engineer

Company Overview

KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world's leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow's electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

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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