Drimva

Joby Aviation

Senior/Staff DSP/FPGA Engineer

$133K–$215K

Santa Cruz, CA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2024

Experience
5+ years’ experience in FPGA or ASIC design; Senior/Staff level depends on candidate qualifications, scope, and abilities.
Education
S./M.S./Ph.D. in a relevant discipline (or portfolio of designed and utilized FPGA/ASIC projects).

About the job

Designs and verifies fault-tolerant FPGA-based signal-processing systems for aircraft sensing, motor control, navigation, and emulation.

What you'll do

  • Collaborate across engineering teams to define DSP and processing needs and constraints.
  • Design and optimize FPGA-based DSP blocks, and develop directed testbenches using bit-accurate reference models.
  • Create models and documentation to define, validate, and verify requirements in an aircraft certification-focused environment.

What they ask for

  • Relevant degree or portfolio of designed and utilized FPGA/ASIC projects.
  • 5+ years’ experience in FPGA or ASIC design using VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog.
  • Experience modeling signal-processing systems using MATLAB, Simulink, Python, or C.
  • Experience implementing fixed-point DSP blocks in RTL; familiarity with Linux development.

Nice to have

  • Experience with DO-254 FPGA compliance or SEU mitigation for aviation or automotive applications.
  • Experience with embedded C/C++, processor architecture and communications protocols, Xilinx FPGAs, Vivado, or model-based design and automated code generation.

Pay

$132,800 - $215,300 USD base salary

Tools

VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, MATLAB, Simulink, Python, C, Linux

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