Senior FPGA Design Engineer, VHDL
Medtronic
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
DACJavaReact
About the role
- Multi-functional role designing solutions and deploying them worldwide
- Daily interaction with T&M Group (NI) customers, alliance partners, sales, and engineering teams
- Work with semiconductor test engineering, test program structure, hardware design, and fixture design in support of customer solutions
- Generate requirements documents to finalize statements of work
- Define and implement project plans, manage project milestones, and hold reviews to assure requirements and readiness for deployments
- Understand, design and validate analog and digital circuits covering signal interconnect and data communication protocols based on Device Under Test requirements
- Participate in creation of integrated modular hardware into turnkey test systems based on test requirements
- Evaluate integrated hardware for system reliability, testing accuracy and total system cost of test
- Provide on-site system development support at customer sites and resolve system issues to meet stability and reliability expectations
- Work with customers and contract manufacturers to improve tester performance and react to urgent system issues during projects
- Provide guidance and support to system operation at customer sites
- Travel domestically and internationally to support opportunities and projects (~30%)
Requirements
- B.S in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Electronics Engineering Technology or higher
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience in a System Design Role, Application Engineering, Technical Field Sales or a Test Engineering Design Role
- Experience in RFIC or mixed-signal IC testing and validation
- Experience with RF FEM, On-Wafer test, IPD, ADC/DAC, LED, MEMS sensor, PMIC, etc.
- Software and system development, including test case development
- Text-Based Programming experience (C++, VB, Java, etc.)
- Test platform software experience (SmarTest, IG-XL, etc.)
- Major semiconductor ATE platform experience (V93000, Ultra, J750, Pax, etc.)
- Experience with common test engineering instruments: SMU, VSA, VSG, VST, VNA, Power Meter, etc.
- Demonstrated understanding of sources of measurement error
- Appropriate selection of instrumentation and equipment layout
- Integration of hardware and software
- Electrical ground and shield concepts
- Familiarity with schematic capture tools and PCB design
- Statistical analysis of data (Cp, Cpk, GR&R)
- Ability to work effectively in a group development environment
- Structured problem solving skills: diagnose technical issues and propose solutions
- Self-starter who can work independently and take initiative
- Ability to persistently drive tasks and lead projects to successful completion
- Quick learner of applicable technology, systems, and products
- Strong work ethic and drive to succeed
- Semiconductor experience and knowledge (ATE, handler, prober, on-wafer test, digital test, fabrication, etc.)
- Great written and verbal English communication
- Strong understanding of electrical engineering, electronics & computer architectures
- Willingness to travel domestically and abroad (~30%)
