Firmware Engineer

Fibertek, Inc. is a leading developer of laser and electro-optic systems for the aerospace community, with key contributions to lasers for atmospheric sensing, laser communications, and lidar sensors for NASA, DoD, and commercial customers. We are looking for an experienced Firmware Engineer to contribute to the development of products on our Research and Development Team in Herndon, VA. As part of our R&D division, you will work on small teams to develop, verify, and upgrade the firmware in Fibertekâ??s electro-optical systems.

All the relevant skills, qualifications and experience that a successful applicant will need are listed in the following description.

3+ years relevant experience

BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Expertise with firmware, preferably VHDL

Familiarity with Xilinx and/or Microchip FPGAs, and their associated development tools (Vivado & Libero)

Experience developing in VHDL

Experience with interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, GTX/GTH Transceivers

Experience with high-speed memory interfaces (e.g., DDR3)

Experience developing test benches and running simulations to exercise the design and verify compliance with requirements

Experience interfacing and working with hardware designers during development and test phases

Experience using schematics and block diagrams as inputs for the firmware development effort

Experience using lab instruments (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, etc.)

Bonus Areas:

Developing Hi-Rel/Space programs

Signal processing

Spacewire, Gigabit Ethernet, or Aurora interfaces

Using IP cores

Developing code for microcontrollers

Developing code for FPGA embedded cpu cores, such as Zynq and Microblaze

Designing GUI-based test software to exercise firmware

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