Board Design Systems Engineer

Job Description/Responsibilities

• Design of characterization and evaluation printed circuit boards (PCBs) for all Achronix FPGA products, with the immediate focus being the Speedster7t FPGA family.
• Design of reference and demonstration boards to demonstrate Achronix products, including DDR, GDDR, PCIe, and Ethernet protocol support.
• Signal and power integrity analysis and design.
• Work with PCB design and layout vendors to ensure successful and on-time delivery of boards.
• Participate in cross-functional bring-up, validation, characterization, support and documentation efforts related to Achronix devices.
• Generate bring-up and reference designs, including FPGA designs, to showcase Achronix device operation and capabilities with different protocols and different data rates.
• Participate in planning discussions for PCBs and customer demonstrations for future Achronix products.

Required Skills

• Experience with PCB design, including schematic capture, placement, and routing.
• Experience working with and managing third-party PCB design and layout vendors is a plus.
• Working knowledge of signal and power integrity principles.
• Hands-on experience with S-parameters, transmission lines, and impedance profiles.
• Hands-on experience with SPICE or other circuit simulation tools; HFSS or other 2.5 or 3D field solvers is a plus.
• Knowledge of high-speed serial interfaces such as GDDR5/6, PCIe, and Ethernet is a plus.
• Experience with parallel memory interfaces such as DDR4 is a plus.
• Experience in FPGA design and testing is a plus.
• Good communication skills and ability to multi-task.
• Programming skills in Verilog, Python, or C.

Education and Experience

• At least 2 years’ experience working on PCB design, bring-up, and debug.
• Experience with lab test equipment, specifically those needed for protocol bring-up: oscilloscopes, function generators, logic analyzers, BERTs, back planes, etc.

• Master’s degree in EE or equivalent, or a Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years of experience.