Job Video Processing FPGA Designer (Job Req. #2021-110)

• Full Time
• Ottawa
• Posted 2 months ago

Job Title: Sr. Video Processing FPGA Designer
Dept.: Department, # 575

Reports to: Nick Bulitka

Direct Reports: None   Indirect Reports: None

Duties, Responsibilities and Accountability:

• Architect, design, and advance, video processing solutions in camera products using FPGAs.
• Own the entire FPGA design and verification process.
• Implement video processing algorithms.
• Develop testbenches and other verification methodologies as required.
• Design easily extendable architectures.
• Collaborate with the entire product development team and recognize that overall success means everybody on the team needs to succeed.
• Produce and maintain design documentation.
• Efficient and systematic debugging skills.
• Ability to judiciously optimize the design to achieve performance, but still meeting the schedule.
• Perform technical performance benchmarking and analyses to support engineering decisions.
• Translate use case requirements into high-level design requirements and be able to drill down to detailed design requirements.
• Ability to recognize when a design is “good enough” for a given application.
• In short, deploy computer vision solutions into the field by writing production quality code.

Job Requirements:

Knowledge/Education/Training:

• Solid understanding of the entire FPGA development cycle.
• Established track record of being able to architect robust timing compliant designs that are easily maintainable and extendable.
• Vitis, Vivado, and Quartus tool workflows.
• Broad experience with high speed video processing at the
• FPGA and firmware levels demonstrated by successful product launches.
• VHDL and Verilog.
• Degree in Electrical Engineering

Traits:

• Crystal clear communicator in both intra- and inter-departmental contexts.
• Organized, detail orientated with solid observational skills
• Self-starter, quick learner and can work with minimum supervision in meeting schedules and project deadlines.  Able to seek out resources required to “get the job done”.
• Able to work independently or as part of a dynamic team.
• Incessant customer focus and tremendous pride of ownership are vital.
• Ability to zoom in to focus on the weeds when needed, but also possesses the ability to zoom out for higher level overview approaches as required.
• Ability to work with incomplete information, yet still move the projects ahead through real-time clarification of blocking issues and judicious assumptions which are subsequently validated.
• Recognizes the need for the right amount of documentation.
• Be able to mentor and willing to be mentored.

Experience:

• Knowledge of the digital camera image processing pipeline and image processing concepts.
• Experience with the entire FPGA development cycle using VHDL or Verilog, preferably based on video processing designs.
• XILINX Zynq UltraScale+ and Altera FPGAs.
• Arm multicore development experience.
• Comfortable interfacing the FPGA to firmware.
• An interest in embedded AI would be a huge asset.
• Familiarity with digital video standards and protocols.
• Experience interfacing to Xilinx or 3rd party IP cores.
• Robotic motion control experience would be awesome.
• Agile software methodologies would be beneficial
• Minimum 5 years of FPGA design and verification experience in a development environment.

Other:

• Valid Driver’s License
• Valid passport
• May involve customer site visits.

Work Environment:

• Office, lab, moderate Noise