Senior Embedded Engineer

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About this opportunity – Formal Verification Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Formal Verification Engineer to join our team working with the best in the Industry, developing innovative ASIC solutions for data center and AI Infrastructure. The ideal candidate will develop comprehensive formal test plans and be responsible for complete formal verification sign-off of single or multiple complex blocks. The role also provides ample opportunities to partner and collaborate with full stack software, hardware, ASIC Design, Emulation and Post-Silicon teams towards creating a first-pass silicon success.

Key Responsibilities:

·      Contribute to Formal Verification applying and evangelizing state of the art Formal Verification Methodologies across IP-level, subsystem-level and SOC Level.

·      Collaborate with Architecture and Design teams to develop formal specifications and implementations.

·      Define formal verification scope, create formal environments, and achieve coverage sign-off using targeted formal verification techniques.

·      Develop comprehensive formal test plans, including unique security requirement verification.

·      Build reusable and scalable formal verification environments and deploy relevant tools.

·      Evaluate and recommend EDA solutions for Formal Verification and drive improvements to methodologies and flows.

·      Debug complex issues in RTL designs based on formal results and contribute to design improvements.

Required Skills:

1. Strong hands-on experience with Formal Verification tools (e.g., JasperGold, VC-Formal, Questa Formal).
2. Experience writing formal properties using System Verilog Assertions (SVA) or Property Specification Language (PSL).
3. Proven understanding of Formal Verification methodologies, complexity reduction techniques, and abstraction techniques.
4. Fluency in hardware description languages, such as SystemVerilog.
5. Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Tcl within Unix/Linux environments.

 Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience:

5+ years of experience in Design Verification, with at least 1 year in Formal Verification.

QFocus AI Pvt Ltd is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Basic Qualification: BE / Btech Computer Science

Desirable Skills:

1.Software development using Embedded C, C++ with programming standards (MISRA)

2.Knowledge of bus systems, which are used in the automotive industry, like CAN, LIN, I2C, SPI, etc)

3.Software development processes –A-SPICE V-cycle

4.Experience with development of control units for the automotive industry, especially experience with the development based on AUTOSTAR basic software.

5. Experience in the automotive industry according to common development and parameterization tools (i.e. Vector CANoe).

6.Knowledge of standards for safety-critical software (ISO 26262) is a plus.

Primary skills:

At least 3+ years of working experience on embedded firmware development

- Experience in multithreaded programming, network programming (wired and wireless protocols), real-time programming, cross-platform and cross-language development

- Hands-on experience on driver development for various sensors

- Working knowledge of communication protocols like UART, I2C, SPI, USB, Ethernet, etc

- Product development experience with range of microcontroller/microprocessor architectures, adoption of bare-metal, RTOS and Linux operating systems on new platforms

-Hands-on experience on software development in Bluetooth domain is added advantage

- Experience with hardware lab equipment such as digital scope, logic analyser and JTAG

- Understanding of embedded development constraints and system performance

- Experience with programming in C/C++ and Embedded C

Position: Senior Hardware Engineer

Requirement: Immediate joining

Job Description for the above position:

➢ 5 to 7 years of experience in high-speed and Mixed-signal product design and development.

➢ Hands-on experience in circuit design and circuit simulation, an excellent skill set is a must in circuit analysis.

➢ Experience in Industrial/MIL grade environmental system design, in which processor-controlled and FPGA-controlled devices are involved.

➢ Excellent component selection and decision-making skills.

➢ Working experience with high-speed digital interfaces such as PCI Express, DDR3/4 SDRAM, 100Mbps/1000Mbps/10Gb Ethernet, Battery management system and USB2.0/3.0. This is must

Requirement.

➢ Experience in a range of technologies including digital, analog and power electronics.

➢ Hands-on experience in writing low-level design documents, architectural design documents and test procedures is a must to apply for this position.

➢ Excellent knowledge of electronic circuits and analysis.

➢ Familiarity and Experience with Altium Designer and Allegro tools.

➢ The ability to work with software engineers to design and debug systems.

➢ Experience in Thermal analysis, Load analysis and Timing analysis.

➢ Knowledge of Signal integrity and power integrity.

➢ Experience in system-level design, logical design etc.

➢ Experience and involvement in the complete cycle of Product development and design skill is a must requirement for this position.

➢ Good knowledge of EMI/EMC testing procedures and Certification standards.

➢ Guide and support all aspects of PCB layout, fabrication, and assembly processes.

➢ Knowledge of analog and digital video interfaces, especially HDMI, Display Port, and SMPTE

video standards a plus.

➢ Hands-on experience in design/troubleshooting/updating hardware.

➢ Thorough knowledge of MS Office applications, Word, Excel, and Visio.

➢ Mentoring the team, being an individual contributor, willingness to take ownership of the design is a must to apply for this position.

➢ Experience with testing tools like Oscilloscopes, Signal Analyzers etc...

➢ Strong knowledge on layer stack-up build.

Qualification:

➢ BE/B. Tec or ME/M. Tech in Electronics/Electronics and communication Person 

Specification/Competencies: 

➢ Self-motivated 

➢ The ability to work independently, within or lead the team. 

➢ Well organized 

➢ Strategic thinker. 

➢ Proactive 

➢ Ability to manage multiple tasks and work toward long-term goals. 

➢ Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) 

➢ Solid understanding of engineering fundamentals and technical problem-solving skills. 

➢ Experience in establishing and sustaining strong relationships with the extended team.

Summary: 

Hyperspec is building a real time local map for self-driving cars and using cross view localization to enable ubiquitous autonomy. Hyperspec is a VC funded startup.

The principal embedded systems engineer will have deep expertise in embedded systems design, development and worked for years on embedded systems teams. This person is a leader and mentor to junior engineers and shares knowledge about the design and development of embedded systems.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as an expert in all aspects of embedded projects and embedded systems—including designing, developing, testing, and perfecting designs 
• Responsible for updating and working with executive leadership on the development of embedded systems and status of projects 
• Provides guidance and mentoring to other members of the team

Requirements:

• Minimum of bachelors' degree in computer science or engineering
• At least ten years of engineering experience with expertise in software engineering, data structures, and programming techniques
• Deep expertise in C/C++ programming
• Experience with FPGAs, PCB, Xilinx, Altera, or similar SoCs.
• Experience with ISPs, Cameras, Switches a plus.
• Experience in working with real-time operating systems, communications protocols and firmware design.

• Experience in interfaces, IP protocols, and hardware subsystems.
• Experience in working as part of a team and leading teams.

Hands-on experience in Autosar methodologies and workflows.

• Sound understanding of embedded SW development using C on 32/64 bit microcontrollers.

• Experience in at least one of microcontroller architectures: Renesas RH family, Tricore or PowerPC architecture.

• Automotive Product Development Process knowledge (ASpice, ISO26262)

• Experience in one or more of Autosar BSW Modules stacks.

• Autosar based SWcs development in any domain of cluster, ADAS and IVI system.

• Com stack (FlexRay, CAN, LIN, Ethernet) / Memory Stack/ Diagnostic stack/ OS, Wdg, other services.

• Working knowledge on AUTOSAR ECU software architecture

• Understand the various features provided by AUTOSAR BSW modules and configure BSW modules in Davinci Configurator or similar tools

• Understand the AUTOSAR application (SW-C) configuration and the interaction of AUTOSAR applications (SW-C) with the underlying BSW modules

• Understand the functionality of RTE, mapping of application entities with BSW module parameters, OS scheduling concepts, ECU and BSW module state changes

• Understand the AUTOSAR methodology (ECU extract contents, import of ECU extract into configuration tool)

Understand the flow of the AUTOSAR software from application till the underlying driver.

• Bachelors in Electronics & Communication or equivalent
• 6-10 yrs experience in embedded software development
• Hands-on embedded C skills (mandatory)
• Experience with any microcontrollers MCU (mandatory) – Renesas/ Infineon/ Cypress/ ST-Micro /TI / Microchip
• Experience with any of peripherals & communication protocols usage in application development (mandatory) – UART, I2C, SPI, I2S, CAN, USB, ADC, DAC, EEPROM, Flash memory
• Experience with any RTOS – FreeRTOS, Azure RTOS, ThreadX
• Experience with any networking &  connectivity modules (preferred & added advantage) – Ethernet, WiFi, BLE, MQTT, COAP
• Exposure to any IoT frameworks (desirable not mandatory) – IoTivity, AWS IoT, Azure IoT
• Experience with any device driver development, driver optimisation (desirable not mandatory)
• Good ability to read data sheets & technical manuals