About this role

We at Kandou are a team of passionate professionals striving to make a mark in the trajectory of the semiconductor industry. Our list of customers reads like a who’s is who of the technology world. If you love to be part of an adventure of a start- up challenging established tech giants and you are a proactive problem-solver who is motivated by pushing your limits and challenging the status quo, we have an opportunity for you.

Kandou is actively seeking a resourceful FPGA Engineer contractor.

Responsibilities

- FPGA concept and design definition

- Close interaction with Verification engineers, Digital designers and validation/characterization engineers

- Validation and bring-up of devices and FPGAs in the lab

- Prototyping of new digital designs in FPGAs

- FPGA design and verification of very high-speed digital circuits

- Selection of FPGAs and tool set

- Support for post-silicon lab bring-up, debug, characterization and productization.

- Post processing of validation results in Python

- Analysis and understanding of high-speed serial protocols (USB4, PCIe, DP and Physical Coding Layer (PCS) )

- Close interaction with verification and physical implementation engineers to verify circuit functionality and compliance with area, timing and power requirements

- Support and interact with internal/external customers on requirements, design specifications, performance results

- Manage workload and schedules and report to internal management team and external customers

Skills

- Strong interest in the design of FPGAs and blocks for multi-Gigabit serial and parallel data-link transceivers

- Scripting (Python preferred) and tool setup skills.

- Passionate about FPGAs and FPGA design

- Knowledge of high-speed and low-power design techniques, and high-speed serial protocols is a plus

- Self-motivated, with strong sense of ownership and responsibility.

- Good communicator and team player with strong analytical skills

- Strong RTL coding skills (SystemVerilog preferred)

- Understanding of verification methodologies, in particular UVM, is an advantage.

Experience

- 5-10 years’ experience in designing for FPGA targets

- Strong technical background in FPGA design, validation and verification

- Proven experience in design and verification of FPGAs

- Experience in industry standard FPGA tools for design, simulation and verification

- Experience in digital high-speed blocks. High Speed interface competence and/or PCS experience would be a plus

- Experience in prototyping digital designs in FPGAs

- Proven experience with lab instruments and bench measurements for design validation

- Experience using Python or other scripting language for design validation and data analysis