Senior FPGA/Firmware Engineer

- Senior

Oak Ridge, TN

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

Rapiscan, an OSI Systems Company, is seeking an experienced Senior FPGA/Firmware engineer in its Oak Ridge, TN Facility. We are proud to be a trusted provider of advanced radiation measurement systems and X-ray technologies for ports, borders, military, high-threat facilities and critical infrastructure all over the world. Be a part of our mission to provide our customers with best-in-class cargo and vehicle screening systems and services so they can combat terrorism, trade fraud, drug and weapon smuggling, and illegal immigration. Responsible for FPGA and Firmware development for a range of radiation detection sensors and single board computer (SBC) platforms. This position will work closely with a multidisciplinary engineering team to implement electronic designs containing embedded microcontrollers and field programmable gate arrays. This is envisioned as a technical role which assists in development from concept/requirements phase to production/sustainment phase. The position will help in the development of algorithms and transition into working hardware solutions for our radiation detection systems.

Responsibilities

• Perform as an individual contributor within a small multidisciplinary team environment to successfully produce new radiation detection systems and subassemblies.
• Contribute to requirements and specifications capture for new electronic board assemblies.
• Develop electronics designs from concept through to working finished products.
• Component selection.
• Schematic capture.
• Generating firmware for embedded microcontrollers.
• Generating VHDL for FPGAs.
• Simulation and test to verify performance.
• Algorithm development.
• Creation of design documentation.
• Production support.

Requirements

• BSEE/MSEE with 6+ years of engineering and product development experience required.
• Experience developing firmware in C/C++ is required.
• Experience developing VHDL for FPGAs is required.
• Familiarity with electronics communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, RS422, Ethernet, etc is required.
• Ability to prioritize and organize daily activities to effectively manage multiple projects concurrently is required.
• A creative, innovative thinker disciplined in delivering on-time results.
• Ability to work cross functionally and make effective team based decisions in a fast paced environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience developing for Atmel embedded microcontrollers using Atmel Studio is highly desired.
• Experience with Lattice family of FPGAs is highly desired.
• Experience using schematic capture tools like Circuit Studio or Altium is highly desired.
• Experience developing algorithms in Matlab or Python for implementation within microcontrollers and FPGAs is highly desired.
• Experience with radiation detection instrumentation is highly desired.