Engineer Electronics

At Barco, we use technology to make an impact. As a global leader in visualization and collaboration technologies, we develop innovative solutions for the entertainment, enterprise and healthcare industries. With a strong focus on quality, reliability and sustainability, we help companies and professionals around the world communicate, visualize and perform better.
With offices in more than 90 countries and a team of over 3,200 employees, we continue to push boundaries and shape the future of digital imaging and connectivity.

Overview

The job in this posting is for an FPGA Engineer for the Image Processing Product Group, which is part of the Entertainment Division of Barco. The Image Processing group is a diverse, multi-national team with primary business activities in Rancho Cordova, part of the Sacramento Capital region of California. This team designs products used primarily in Live Events, such as corporate presentations, trade shows, auto shows, concerts and other events. The products are purpose build, rugged electromechanical enclosures, utilizing proprietary hardware and software to process a multitude of video inputs, compose the images in real time with minimum delay and output to display devices (LED screens, Projectors, LCDs etc.). The Event Master series of products have been dominant in the event markets since 2014. The latest addition is the PDS-4K for smaller events and breakout rooms.

Location - Rancho Cordova, CA. Only local candidates who are able to commute to the office will be considered for this role.

General Job Responsibilities

• To ensure that the design, implementation, and testing/verification of the system is within the constraints: time, cost, specification & quality targets.
• To ensure that the implementation confirms to the Company common guidelines and best practices.
• To evaluate & assure that the market requirements are being understood and become part of the project (specification, verification). Develop system design from marketing requirements into functional specifications and partition the overall product design into realizable sub-modules.
• To develop component/complex module level specifications from higher level specifications.
• To review test cases developed by the test team to verify the implementation against the specifications.
• Find and analyze available information for working out and proposing solutions to the problems; analyze test results and test plans w.r.t. functional coverage.
• Interact with the R&D team to achieve the consistency of the work with the overall design and to share knowledge.
• To collect/prepare the documents (documentation and reports) of the related design/module/sub-assembly in time as per the project plan.
• Ensure that the given milestones are being achieved. Review test plans and quality reports, report problems on time if goals cannot be reached.
• Decide about design alternatives.
• To be the primary technical domain knowledge owner of a technology or technology platform.

Detail Job Responsibilities and Requirements

• System Architecture Design:
  • Convey architecture ideas using easy to understand drawings, block diagrams, flow-charts...
  • Remain flexible regarding your architecture ideas and able to listen to other ideas and pivot
  • Come up with realistic estimates regarding the performance and resource usage of FPGA architecture before detailed design has begun.
• Very Large FPGA design:

• • HDL design language experience: System Verilog preferred.
  • Experience with Xilinx and or Altera design environments.
  • Ability to break up complex design into logical modules.
  • Design and code modules for reuse.
  • Organize and document modules for ease of use in future designs.
  • Document memory map and programming instructions for the software team.
  • Good coding style practices: formatting, comments, variable names, etc

• • Identify and address potential synthesis/routing/fitting problems.
• Very Large FPGA debug:
  • Identify/Locate potential timing problems in a large FPGA design.
  • Debug problems using Chip-Scope or equivalent.
• Cross discipline communication
  • Communicate well with other disciplines: software, product owner, test...
• Simulation
  • Modelsim experience preferred.
  • Flexible test bench design that can be adapted to various scenarios encountered in the FPGA.
• Scripting
  • Develop test scripts to assist on FPGA bring up.
  • Experience with scripting languages like TC, Python is helpful.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Electronics or Computer Engineering.
• 10+ years of relevant experience. To include experience in real-time video and image processing.
• Very large FPGA design is a must
• Advanced technical skills i.e. Hardware design, FPGA design, System Verilog HDL, Embedded software, Different software and scripting languages.
• High level of intellectual affectivity and flexibility.
• Analytical skills.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills.
• Takes Initiative; is a self-starter
• Ability to both, work independently, and effectively collaborate and achieve results as part of a team
• Good time management and multi-tasking

The salary range for this position is $110,000 - $158,000 annually. This range represents the pay that we reasonably expect to offer for this role. The actual salary will be determined based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, and qualifications.

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