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Lumentum’s Commercial Laser Group is seeking a Lead/Principal Firmware Engineer to join our growing firmware/software team.
This is a unique and challenging role as Lumentum is on an initiative to grow our product portfolio and your opportunity is being part of that new technology and innovation team focused on developing new laser platforms.
As a FW Technical Lead, you will be responsible for overall FW/SW architecture, design choices and implementation of key features. This is a cross-functional role that interacts with electrical, mechanical, and optical teams as well as the broader FW/SW team. The individual will be expected to work with a dynamic, talented team of hardware, software, and test engineers developing state-of-the-art laser technology and products. The successful candidate will be a technical expert capable of architecting and implementing embedded software solutions on Linux, bare-metal, and RTOS environments. The candidate will be working with a multi-disciplinary team and own the end-to-end FPGA firmware design from RTL through production.
The Principal Firmware FPGA engineer will support all phases of firmware development targeting embedded systems, including design, coding, integration, and debugging of major portions of the embedded system.
Bring your enthusiasm and experience and join our growing team!
Responsibilities:- Design, develop, enhance and debug new and existing firmware (C, Python, VHDL) for our next generation Laser products.
- Work with electronics hardware, software, and testing teams to define product requirements and develop FPGA vision and roadmap for innovation.
- Architect light-weight FPGA/MCU solutions for digital control systems.
- Generate requirements, FPGA coding in various industry tools, FPGA verification and traceability mapping.
- Work in a cross-functional team to design, implement, and verify RTL using Verilog or System Verilog HDL.
- Develop customized libraries and testbenches to facilitate rapid digital FPGA design deployment and reuse.
- Program in high-level and low-level languages as appropriate including C/C++, Verilog/VHDL.
- Support estimation activities associated with new and remapping FPGA design efforts.
Required Qualifications:
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
- 8+ years embedded systems design and development experience in an agile development.
- Proven FPGA architecture and design industrial experience with applied knowledge of AMD (Xilinx) and/or Intel (Altera) FPGA devices and application environments.
- Demonstrated skills in embedded system architecture and design patterns, formulating specifications and implementation firmware for complex embedded systems.
- Strong proficiency in C, C++, Verilog/VHDL, Python.
- Experience designing real-time embedded systems on bare-metal or RTOS.
- Expertise designing and implementing complex systems with HDL: System Verilog or Verilog.
- Solid understanding of digital design concepts, timing issues, and clock domain crossing.
- Good communication skills in English.
- Experience in leadership, mentoring, organization, and coordination skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Humble, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude, with the grit to get things done.
- Experience developing Software/Hardware coverage, stimulations, and tests.
- Extremely proficient in VHLD/Verilog and C++ programming or equivalent.
- Experience in developing and debugging scripts (Python or similar).
- Debug experience resulting in solving complex Hardware/Firmware interface issues.