FPGA Engineer, Kuiper Payload FPGA

Description

Project Kuiper is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we've designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key job responsibilities

The Role:

Create FPGA solutions to support Amazon Project Kuiper's satellite communication system. This is a unique opportunity to define a groundbreaking new system with few legacy constraints. The FPGA design engineer will work with systems teams to define/develop/implement/test/release FPGA based solutions to enable Project Kuiper. This will focus on creating digital designs for networking functions using the latest generations of FPGA technologies and modern FPGA design processes and tools.

In this role you will:

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  Have ownership of one or more FPGA bitstreams. - Create and release FPGAs through the development phases of uArchitecture-RTL Design-Physical Implementation-Timing Closure-Simulation Validation- Lab Based Silicon Validation

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  Collaborate with network communication system architects to define and design/implement/test/release/support networking functions targeted to FPGA technology

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  Collaborate with Digital Communications/Networking system architects and design engineers to implement digital logic functions in FPGAs.

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  Collaborate with system architects and design engineers to implement digital logic functions in FPGA prototypes to validate/tradeoff architecture & design alternatives

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  Collaborate with systems architects, HW engineering design teams & FW/SW design teams to bring up and test systems combining FPGA, firmware, RF, and Networking functions.

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  Drive trade-off analysis to benefit customer experience and optimization of target technology resources for cost/size/power/performance/features

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Basic Qualifications

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  Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, related discipline, or 7 + years of FPGA experience

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  5+ years of experience in FPGA design & implementation

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  Experience with System Verliog RTL coding

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  Experience in the design, test, delivery, support of multiple FPGAs shipping to customers

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  Experience in writing test scripts (Python preferred) to validate FPGA images in HW.

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  Experience with Xilinx/AMD (or Altera) FPGAs

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  Experience with modern ASIC / FPGA design and verification tools

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  Experience with uArchitecture, RTL coding, FPGA optimization for timing & power, simulation, and validation

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Preferred Qualifications

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  Experience with high speed networking, SerDes, 50G and 100G Ethernet.

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  Experience developing python tests for both HW testsing and Cocotb simulation enviroments.

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  Proven track record of successfully fielding and supporting FPGA and ASIC products

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  Good analytical, problem solving and communication skills

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit