Keys To China

Staff FPGA Engineer 

Location: San Jose, CA

An industry leader and manufacturer of high quality video cameras for aerospace/defense, traffic, wafer inspection, and other machine vision applications. The Staff FPGA Engineer will work closely with management, senior engineering, and technical staff to ensure designs are verified efficiently with high fault coverage, resulting in high quality camera products designed for testability and manufacturability. 

Education

BSEE or MSEE (preferred) and 10+ years experience in FPGA or system design for CCD/CMOS cameras or related products.

Job Description

The successful candidate will be team leader and chief architect for new camera developments.  We are seeking a highly motivated Staff FPGA Engineer with solid digital and FPGA design experience. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to design digital circuits and FPGA necessary to create cutting edge CCD and CMOS camera designs for the industrial camera market. He will be responsible for the design, development, testing, and verification of cameras with the following specific duties:

- Develop Image/Video Processing and Enhancement Algorithms 

- Digital Circuit and FPGA Design (Image/Video Processing and Enhancement, Memory Controller) in the Xilinx Virtex-4 or Spartan-3 Platform or Altera platforms.

- Write test requirements, test specifications, validation plans & reports and test procedures to verify that the design meets all requirements.

Skills Required

- Positive attitude for R&D, aggressive, dedicated and self motivated

- Strong knowledge of CCD and CMOS camera design

- Strong knowledge of VHDL, Xilinx ISE and EDK, ModelSim

- Strong experience with FPGA design flow & System partitioning (Software, Firmware, and Hardware)

- Strong working knowledge of digital circuit design and firmware development/debug

- Writing skills: Able to document designs and reports in a clear and concise manner

- Efficient in board-level hardware schematic design, debugging and validation

- Operating style: Hands-on, action-oriented, with good analytical and experimental work habits

- Good interaction with other team members in the development of specifications and project plans

- Effective in producing clearly written technical and non-technical product documentation

- Able to handle multiple simultaneous projects and assignments

- Teamwork: Possess strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills to work effectively as a team player

- Able to quickly learn new concepts and tasks. - Able to use PC, digital and analog oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, curve tracers, and other debug tools to debug and verify camera design.

- Knowledge of microprocessor based system 

Skills Desired

- Knowledge of machine vision interfaces, GigE Vision, Camera Link HS, CoaXpress, USB3

- Knowledge of Video signal processing is a plus

- Knowledge of NTSC, PAL, or HDTV standards

- Knowledge of Progressive scan/non-standard video design

Contact: Vivian@KeystoChinaJobs.com