We have an outstanding Contract position for anEmbedded Firmware Engineerto join a leading Company located in theShalimar, FLsurrounding area.

US Citizenship is required.

Candidate must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.

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The applicant must have experience writing embedded software in the C or C++ languages for embedded systems. They should have a solid understanding of and experience with real-time software principles such as RTOS task scheduling and prioritization, inter-process communication with semaphores and mutexes, and memory management involving both the stack and heap and boot processes. Must have experience interacting with real hardware from a software environment and have experience writing low-level device drivers in both bare-metal and operating system environments, interacting with device registers and chip-to-chip hardware interfaces. Must have experience with boot processes and bootloaders and customizing bootloaders, such as U-Boot to support specific hardware configurations. Experience with low-level communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, and UART is a must. Experience with high-speed data transfer using protocols like PCIe and Aurora is desired.

Basic Hiring Criteria :

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineer, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline from an ABET-accredited institution

• Minimum 15+ years of relevant experience

• Candidate must be a US Citizen and possess (and be able to maintain) a Final Secret Clearance or meet the eligibility to obtain (and maintain) a Secret Clearance

• Experience with embedded Software/Firmware design

• Experience working with embedded operating systems High proficiency with C/C++, and TCL

• Experience in FPGA system design and testing from architecture through implementation

• Familiarity with modern Xilinx FPGA families and design tools (7-series FPGAs, Ultrascale+, Vivado, Vitis, Xilinx IP cores)

• Experience with multiple high-speed serial communication standards and interfaces (e.g. Aurora, 10Ge, PCIe, DDR4/3/2/1, JESD204B)

• Experience with standard internal interfaces such as AXI4, AXI4-Stream, AXI4-Lite

• Motivated self-starter and problem solver with experience executing in multi-disciplinary teams

• Hands-on laboratory experience with instrumentation, test equipment, and debug/test methods

  Desired Qualifications :

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineer, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline from an ABET-accredited institution

• 20+ years of relevant experience

• Experience working with SoC designs such as Zynq and Zynq Ultrascale+ including architecting and interfacing with peripherals, interrupts, and related bus architectures

• Working knowledge of digital/analog/mixed-signal electronics, components, and interface/communication standards

• Experience with FPGA PCBA hardware design

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