Senior FPGA based SoC Prototyping Engineer

About the job

About u-blox u-blox is a global leader in automotive, industrial, and consumer markets, driving innovation through our cutting-edge positioning and short-range communication technologies. We are the pioneers behind high-precision technologies, providing smart and reliable solutions that enable people, vehicles, and machines to determine their precise position and communicate wirelessly. With headquarters in Thalwil, Switzerland, and offices across Europe, Asia, and the USA, we are making a global impact.

Job Description

Are you ready to challenge your expertise in the field of FPGA based SoC prototyping and enable shorter time to market product deliveries playing a key role between design and firmware teams? U-Blox SoC Verification team is expanding its mission and looking for a talented and experienced FPGA based SoC Prototyping engineer. Our members are passionate experts who thrive for solving concrete challenging problems paving the way to deliver to U-Blox customers the best products on time. In addition to that, you will experience true opportunities of self-initiative and empowerment of individuals willing to take an active role in our flat verification organization. If you are looking for true challenges and growth, the team is looking forward to hearing from you. You are an ASIC/SoC digital design and or verification engineer, with prior achievements in FPGA based ASIC/SoC prototyping missions and are interested in scaling up your impact and responsibilities, then we would like to talk to you. We encourage you to apply if this role excites you – even if you think you may not meet all the requirements. We are always looking for curious, outstanding individuals and great potential. This is full-time hybrid working role available in Thalwil (Switzerland), Leuven (Belgium) and Athens (Greece). We are an equal opportunity employer and do not accept unsolicited applications from staffing agencies.

Your mission:

Take ownership of the FPGA based SoC prototyping strategy, implementation and prototypes validation. This covers also the hardware setup. Port ASIC RTL into FPGA friendly and synthesizable RTL, mapping (Floorplan, constraints) and verify it using Simulation and in Lab environment. Achieve alignments between the design and the firmware teams to deliver on-time as required functional prototypes versions which enable us to achieve early firmware development. Continuous improvement of the internal FPGA prototyping flows and methodology (verification and back-end). Hardware / Firmware System bring-up, troubleshooting and support the prototype users.

Your Skills and Experience:

Hands on experience of multiple successful full SoC project cycles where you have achieved FPGA prototypes of Low Power SoC’s on AMD and Altera and the associated support and trouble shooting. AMD Ultrascale+ is a must. Firm expertise in AMD and Altera FPGA backend flow. Experience in troubleshooting systems which combine hardware platforms, design, and firmware. A problem-solving mind set and experience: curious, proactive, detail-oriented, doer and motivated by shared success. Solid experience in ASIC design knowledge (architecture, clock tree, verification, modeling).

What you will live:

Contribute and evolve within a flat team of experts where knowledge sharing and collaboration while allowing space for individual initiatives to drive our success who has already achieved multiple successful products to the market. Contribute to cutting edge GNSS SoC’s products addressing every aspect that matters to our customers (time to market, performance, quality, cost). Join a multi-cultural multi-site environment that values both technical excellence and team spirit. Learn more about u-blox and its mission by watching this video ! We see diversity as a strength and promote a culture of inclusion among our employees. Our varied backgrounds, ideas and experiences are critical to our success. We strive to become a strong learning organization and are committed to provide our employees with equal opportunities regardless of differences such as gender, race, ethnicity, generations, belief.