Senior FPGA Design Engineer

USC’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI), a unit of the university’s Viterbi School of Engineering, is a world leader in the research and development of advanced information processing, computing, communications, and artificial intelligence technologies. ISI’s faculty, professional staff, and graduate students conduct extraordinary information sciences research at locations in Arlington, Virginia; Marina del Rey, California; and Waltham, Massachusetts.

The Reconfigurable Computing Group at ISI develops computer architectures and design methods that make specialized hardware more adaptable, efficient, and trustworthy. Recent work combines FPGA prototyping, ASIC design, purpose-built electronic design automation tools, and hardware-software co-design to advance rapidly reconfigurable processing for RF sensing and communications, acceleration of fully homomorphic encryption, and hardware security and assurance. The group builds and evaluates working systems, develops the tools needed to program and verify them, and collaborates across disciplines to move research toward operational use.

We are seeking a highly talented and motivated Senior FPGA Design Engineer to research and develop novel tools and techniques for assuring FPGA hardware. Working with research staff and technical collaborators, the engineer will plan and execute specialized FPGA designs to assess device functionality and state; work directly with FPGA hardware and laboratory instrumentation to measure, validate, and analyze device characteristics; and identify, plan, and implement methods that extend commercial and open-source EDA tools with new assurance capabilities.

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