Lead FPGA Engineer

About the role

Systems & Applications Design is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that works with cross functional teams of other engineers, customers, supply chain and project leadership to ensure robust and high quality product development. The CPLD/FPGA Engineer is responsible for leading and managing the employees who design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their life cycles. They are engineering leads engaged in issues such as requirements engineering, reliability, logistics, coordination of different teams, testing and evaluation, maintainability and many other disciplines necessary for successful system design, development, implementation, and ultimate decommission.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design, development and implementation of technical solutions in multiple domains
• Participate in project planning and scheduling
• Review, interpret and may negotiate customer requirements/specifications and provide customer feedback
• Lead the deployment of strategic programs and coordinate site-wide deployment efforts
• Proactively promote industry best practices
• Manage relationships with key vendors/partners
• Research systems ideas and draw up plans for these systems
• Design, modify and implement systems that meet customer and Celestica needs
• Test, simulate and measure the performance of systems
• Liaison with suppliers, customers, contractors, and other internal teams

About you

• BS/EE with 5+ years of FPGA/CPLD development experience
• FPGA design processes including programming, constraints edit, functional verification, logic synthesis, floorplan and route, timing verification
• Hardware description language VHDL, Verilog HDL, System Verilog
• Ability to use a schematic capture tool
• Development tools including Xilinx ISE, Altera Quartus
• Simulation tools of ModelSim SE
• Synthesis tools of Synplicity Synplify
• Solid Verilog RTL and test bench coding skills, good coding style
• Familiar with at least one mainstream FPGA and development platform, Xilinx/Altera/Lattice
• Ability to read/understand schematics, have a basic understanding of HW architecture and concepts such as Clock, Interrupts, DC/DC, Ripple, Buses such as SATA/SAS/PCIe/I2C/SPI