FPGA Development Engineer

Initial 3 month contract + extensions

Leuven, Belgium

We are looking for an electronics design engineer with excellent technical skills in the field of FPGA design and programming. You will work on a variety of different projects in the domain of life sciences and novel sensing technologies for industrial, medical and space applications.

The assignment

• Design & develop FPGA applications in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Analysis of new project requirements and definition of system specifications.
• Design of Data (pre)processing applications.
• Design and implementation of high bandwidth read-out systems.
• Work closely with an interdisciplinary team of system engineers, electronics design engineers and researchers.
• Work according to agreed customer timelines and report on progress internally and to customers.
• Manage time effectively and quickly adapt to new project requirements

Required knowledge and skills

• You hold a Master's degree in Electronics with at least 5 years of experience in FPGA design and programming for industrial applications.
• Digital techniques & VLSI Design o VHDL coding rules in high-speed applications (CDC, FSM, pipelining, ...)
• Behavioral and Timing simulation techniques
• Tcl/TK scripting in an EDA environment
• Verification using virtual (ILA) and laboratory equipment (MSO, LSA) o FPGA development environments (Xilinx + Lattice) o Embedded Linux environment (Petalinux and PYNQ)
• You are a team player with excellent communication skills and fluent in English.