Senior Software Design Engineer / Embedded Real-Time Engineer

Title: Senior Software Design Engineer / Embedded Real-Time EngineerLocation: Tinley Park, ILDuration: Permanent HireDevelop, maintain and test high-performance embedded real-time industrial systems for the packaging industry. Responsibilities will include designing digital and mixed-signal circuitry, incorporating FPGAs (VHDL), microprocessors and microcontrollers. Position requires experience developing real-time embedded systems, high speed digital and mixed-signal interfaces.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Familiar with industry standard interfaces: I2C, SPI, PCIe
• Experience with digital design and analog/mixed-signal design
• Able to work independently on circuit board development from initial concept to schematic capture through PCB layout, BOM and design verification in the lab
• Experience with development of Xilinx or Intel FPGAs in VHDL or Verilog
• Experience with simulation and testbench development for verifying an FPGA design
• Experienced with LTSpice or PSpice
• Proficient at SMD soldering for prototypes
• Proficient with lab equipment: oscilloscope, logic analyzer
• Good documentation skills
• Familiar with board support software packages, C/C
• Develop microcontroller applications and lab/production test utilities in C
• Experience in an electronic product design and development process, change management (ECO), reliability test, compliance test (performance, environmental and certification), and manufacture test

• Bachelors Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
• 5+ years work experience in a design role
• Proficient in VHDL and C
• Experienced in digital and mixed-signal hardware design
• Highly motivated, organized, resourceful and persistent
• Ability to work independently and think creatively to solve problems
• Able to manage multiple technical responsibilities simultaneously
• Knowledge of development of Xilinx FPGAs, Intel FPGAs
• Experienced with EDA design tools (esp. Altium Designer or Ki-CAD a plus)
• Experience with PCIe a plus