As a firmware engineer (7+ years experience), you will participate in the definition, design, development, and testing of FPGA firmware in our next-generation active phased-array antennas and satellite user terminals. You will collaborate with our hardware, software, and manufacturing teams as well as external vendors to help provide best-in-class solutions for our customers.

• Define, design, develop, and test FPGA firmware for active phased-array antennas and satellite user terminals.
• Work closely with hardware and software teams to implement real-time algorithms for beamforming operations across a variety of antenna subsystem architectures.
• Significant ownership in technical activities related to new product and feature prototyping and board bring-up.
• Develop algorithms and software to provide efficient manufacturing, calibration, and factory testing of active phased-array antennas and satellite user terminals.
• Create comprehensive test plans to ensure that product requirements are satisfied or exceeded.
• Assist in various aspects of product testing, including unit tests, automated testing, and manual test execution.
• Assist in troubleshooting of issues in development, manufacturing, and operational environments.
• 10% Travel required.

• BSEE/BSCE/BSCS with 7+ years of related industry experience or MSEE/MSCE/MSCS with 5+ years of related industry experience.
• Advanced experience in Verilog/VHDL (or comparable) programming on FPGA systems.
• Experience with design and development of subsystems in a complex wireless communication system.
• Effective debugging, analysis, and testing on embedded platforms with real-time considerations.
• Strong experience with various standard interfaces/protocols, including RS222, RS422, Ethernet, SPI, UART, I2C, FSK, etc.
• Good working knowledge of software version control systems, Git in particular.
• Experience with bench test equipment, including multimeters, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, etc.
• Project experience with unit testing and automated functional & performance testing.

• Experience with circuit schematic and PCB layout.
• Knowledge of digital wireless communication systems and modern satellite communication systems.
• Knowledge of phased array antenna operation.
• Experience with design and implementation of real-time software for antenna tracking and digital communications.
• Experience with Python or other high-level languages.
• Experience with Agile software methodologies (e.g. Kanban, Scrum) and associated tools (e.g. Jira)

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