Principal FPGA/Hardware Design Engineer

We’re looking for a Princiapal FPGA/Hardware Design Engineer to join us in our Brno office as part of the platforms team. The platform team designs FPGA systems based around Codasip’s RISC-V cores and supporting IP such as security IP and system peripherals.

These platforms are used for customer evaluation/demonstration, internal prototyping and benchmarking. You will be working in a mixed skilled team including FPGA, software and verification engineers across multiple offices.

The role demands flexibility and lateral thinking. You will be working on both short-term customer-driven projects, as well as longer-term strategic Codasip products. The scope of the work is broad, varied, and technically challenging.

While Codasip is headquartered in Europe, our approach and culture are typical of Silicon Valley, meaning that we value prudent risk-taking and “out of the box” thinking.  We are a well-funded scaling-up company poised for dynamic growth based on our leading-edge product portfolio. RISC-V is a revolutionary technology in the semiconductor industry. This role will have a high impact and visibility in Codasip and in the growing RISC-V world. 

The job duties consist of but are not limited to:

• Responsible for the development of the RISC-V-based FPGA Platforms
• Setting the technical direction and guiding/mentoring other FPGA engineers
• FPGA System Integration, including synthesis and place and run
• FPGA prototyping and bringing up of complete systems
• IP peripheral design
• Working closely with verification/validation and embedded software engineers to solve technical challenges

Requirements

The following skills are essential to perform the job duties:

• At least 5 years Experience of FPGA development flows
• Experience leading projects
• Demonstrable experience in RTL design in either Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL
• Prototyping or product experience using FPGAs
• Practical expertise in versioning tools (preferably git)
• Practical usage of Linux 

The following skills and experience are nice to have:

• AMD-Xilinx FPGA experience
• Embedded software experience (C or Linux)
• Experience with RISC-V processors
• Active interest in the field and self-education
• Knowledge of modern verification techniques

Benefits

About Codasip:

We believe Codasip is the most innovative processor solutions company. We take pride in designing and developing cutting-edge, high-performance, and energy-efficient CPU cores from scratch, and our own automated proprietary tools to fully customize them. We give our customers a unique competitive advantage by empowering their system-on-chip developers to build the most innovative products. Our processor cores are based on the RISC-V open architecture. The potential for customizing RISC-V is unlocked with the Codasip Custom Compute approach: our unique architecture description language, CodAL, and the powerful automated processor design tool, Codasip Studio. These are at the heart of our unique and groundbreaking RISC-V processor solutions. Founded in 2014, we've grown into a thriving and talented global community. Our IP engineering teams work from offices spread across Europe, including our first and largest design center in the beautiful city of Brno, Czechia. Codasip products are already making a real impact, with billions of devices already in the market powered by our processor IP and tools.