Senior FPGA Engineer

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ASML US brings together the most creative minds in science and technology to develop lithography machines that are key to producing faster, cheaper, more energy-efficient microchips. We design, develop, integrate, market and service these advanced machines, which enable our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers - to reduce the size and increase the functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics. Our headquarters are in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, and we have 18 office locations around the United States including main offices in Chandler, Arizona, San Jose and San Diego, California, Wilton, Connecticut, and Hillsboro, Oregon.

Job Mission

The FPGA Firmware Engineer provides expertise to deliver FPGA designs supporting electronic and electrical designs for the entire development process. Conceptional design through detail design, prototypes through volume manufacture, initial integration through qualification. You will collaborate with a multidiscipline project team,  perform engineering analysis and generate detailed  design documents.

The position requires someone who solves problems and takes ownership of their work, and retains a sense of urgency to meet project deadlines. We are looking for candidates with innovative and energetic personalities who are willing to explore new ideas, and strong team players with excellent communication skills. motivated, extremely organized and self-driven individuals.

Job Description

The FPGA Firmware Engineer will work with a team of specialists who will be responsible for developing, testing, and supporting electronics boards or sub-systems.  The engineer will be responsible for definition, design, verification and documentation for FPGA’s (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). They will provide RTL design, simulation, physical implementation and verification of complex FPGA modules comprising a mix of custom RTL with hard and soft vendor IP cores within a larger architecture.

• Determine architecture, system verification and detailed design approach.

• Define module interfaces and all aspects of device design and simulation coordinated with the PC Board Designers.

• Evaluate the process flow including but not limited to high level design, synthesis, place and route, timing constraints and power utilization.

• Develop test, simulation plans and design verification test plans at design top level.

• Develop, implement and supervise design verification test plans at system level.

• Support the generation of technical engineering products by using the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the FPGA development life cycle.

• May provide leadership and/or direction to lower level employees.

• Independently determine approach to solutions and get alignment from System Engineers and board developers.

• Contribute to design and development of FPGA hardware for control, communications systems and digital signal processing (DSP) platforms.

Education and Experience

Minimum qualifications – the hired candidate must possess all of the minimum qualifications to be initially considered for the position including:

• Bachelor or Master in Engineering with a major in Electrical Engineering and/or Computer Engineering

• minimum of 8+ years relevant design experience
   

Required technical skills  

• Highly proficient use and understanding of FPGA engineering concepts, principles, and theories

• Highly proficient in FPGA design languages and tools including VHDL and UVM or OSVVM (Altera High Level Synthesis is preferred)

• Experience with FPGA development software - (Modelsim, Quartus, Mentor CDC is preferred) 

• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office applications

• Experience with FPGA SoC, including Avalon and AXI architectures

• Experience with architecting and implementing embedded processors including NIOS  

• Proficient in implementing IP blocks based on interface requirements and designing the required interface logic to overall FPGA architecture

• Expertise using VHDL for implementation and verification of FPGA designs

• Basic knowledge of signal algorithms

• Knowledge/hands-on experience with software/technical tools

• VHDL, System Verilog, UVM

• Questa Sim, Modelsim, Quartus 

• GIT, JIRA

• MATLAB and SimuLink

• Electronic Laboratory Equipment

• LabVIEW

• Python
   

Soft skill requirements  

• Strong English communication skills – both written and oral

• Experience working in a project-oriented team

• Ability to prioritize tasks
   

Personal Skills  

• Can observe and respond to people and situations and interact with others encountered in the course of work.  

• Can learn and apply new information or skills. 

• Must be able to read and interpret data, information, and documents.

• Strong customer focus and commitment to customer satisfaction through prioritization, quality, efficiency and professionalism.

• Ability to complete assignments with attention to detail and high degree of accuracy. 

• Proven ability to perform effectively in a demanding environment with changing workloads. 

• Result driven-demonstrate ownership and accountability.

• Identifies bottlenecks and drives improvements.

• Work independently or as part of a team and follow through on assignments with minimal supervision. 

• Demonstrate open, clear, concise and professional communication.

• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with co-workers and customer. 

• Work according to a strict set of procedures within the provided timelines. 
   

Other information

This position is located on-site in Wilton, CT. It requires onsite presence to attend in-person work-related events, trainings and meetings and to further ensure teamwork, collaboration and innovation. 

A flexible workplace arrangement may be available to employees working in roles conducive to remote work (up to two days a week).  
 

Essential Job Functions

The essential job functions for this position include, but are not limited to:

Work in a fast-paced office environment, including working in a standing or seated position for long periods of up to 12 hours per day, 5 days per week.

Commute to ASML’s facility and report to work on a regular and timely basis and complete the scheduled workday on a consistent basis.

Routinely required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch. Occasionally required to move around the campus.

Perform office tasks using simple hand grasping, fine hand manipulation and reach associated with assigned tasks such as paperwork, computer keyboarding (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint), filing, calculating, and use of telephone or other handheld electronic devices, continuously for up to 10 hours per day, five days per week.

Have a sufficient ability to communicate, through sight, hearing, and/or otherwise, to perform assigned tasks and maintain proper job safety conditions.

Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.

May require travel (specify domestic and/or international) dependent on business needs – specify percentage of travel.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Perform other functions that may be assigned.

Additional Responsibilities (as needed in the cleanroom and/or labs):  

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

Must be willing to work in a clean room environment, wearing coveralls, hoods, booties, safety glasses and gloves. Working under ISO 9000/14000 standards. 

The environment in the cleanroom is moderate in temperature with moderate to high noise level.

Working around lasers; working with ladders; working on platforms; and working around chemicals. 

The employee is occasionally required to move around the campus.

EOE AA M/F/Veteran/Disability

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the United States Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.

Diversity and inclusion

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

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