Sr. RTL Engineer

With offices in the U.S. and Germany, MicroVision is at the forefront of driving the global adoption of innovative perception solutions, with the goal of making mobility and autonomy safer. Our engineering excellence, based in Florida, Washington State, Washington D.C., and Hamburg, Germany, enables us to develop and supply integrated lidar hardware and perception software solutions. Our proprietary technologies enhance safety and automation across various industrial applications, including robotics, automated warehouses, and agriculture, and are instrumental in the development of autonomous systems. MicroVision’s core technology, initially developed for the automotive industry, continues to accelerate advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving. Building on our history of providing technology to the military segment, our target offerings include semi- and fully autonomous airborne and terrestrial sensor systems. With our solid-state lidar technologies, encompassing MEMS-based long-range lidar and flash-based short-range lidar, integrated with our onboard perception software, MicroVision possesses the expertise to deliver safe mobility at the speed of life.   

MicroVision has an immediate opportunity for a Senior RTL Engineer.  As a key member of MicroVision's growing Digital Design Engineering team, you will collaborate with various technical teams in the company to design and take into production, market defining Automotive LiDAR product. The right candidate for this position will be a highly motivated FPGA/RTL Engineer with a breadth of understanding in FPGA design and best practices, including detailed design, System Verilog coding, modelling, simulation, verification, integration and test. 

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  Derive FPGA requirements based on system requirements then create FPGA architecture to fulfill those requirements 

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  Design, implement and test Register-Transfer Level (RTL) features and components guided by system architecture and requirements 

• Knowledge of System Verilog, Verilog, Python programming languages 

• Proficient in FPGA Design methodologies from state machine design to DSP implementation 

• Experienced in closing timing in FPGA designs. 

• Mapping algorithms to FPGA appropriate logic implementations 

• Expert integrating and bringing up features in hardware. 

• Ability to work well in a fast-moving and complex environment. 

• Independently driven to complete project tasks 

• Experience with Configuration Management and Change Control concepts and tools (Git, Subversion, Jira, etc.) 

• Experience working with Functional Requirements and defining Requirement Based Tests 

• Experience performing HDL Synthesis/Simulation (eg. VCS, Synplicity, etc.) 

• Experience with design analyses (Timing, Lint, Clock Domain Crossings, Code Coverage, etc.) and IP compliance strategies 

• Knowledgeable of control systems and digital signal processing fundamentals 

• Proficient in other embedded software systems developed in C / Cpp / etc. 

• Hands on experience with High-Level Synthesis (HLS) 

• Excellent scripting and automation skills. Bash shell, python, Make/CMake, and TCL desired 

• Extensive project experience working on embedded laser applications including Lidar 

• Safety-critical industry experience. (FIT analysis, etc.) 

• Working knowledge of various computing architectures beyond FPGAs, such as DSPs, GPUs, or MCUs, and their associated hardware computing platforms used to program them 

• Experience with ASIC design & migration from FPGA prototypes to production ASICs