FPGA Design Engineer

About EGSTON Power Electronics
EGSTON Power Electronics is a young, fast-growing company in power electronics industry, focusing on the development and manufacturing of high-performance Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) test and emulation platforms for power electronic systems. Based in Klosterneuburg on the northern outskirts of Vienna, we are an international team with a passion for cutting edge technology and dedication to developing innovative products, while continuously improving our expertise through active collaboration with our customers, suppliers and external research facilities.

Job description
As an FPGA Design Engineer, your main focus will be to design, develop, integrate, and test FPGA/SOC solutions for EGSTON’s existing and next generation PHIL systems.

Your responsibilities

• FPGA/SOC Design and Development for Power Electronics
• Autonomous development of sophisticated working packages in VHDL / (System) Verilog for AMD (Xilinx) and/or Intel (Altera) devices.

• Usage of High-Level Synthesis (Vivado HLS, Xilinx System Generator, MATLAB Simulink) to speed up development cycles.
• Perform result-oriented analysis and debugging of newly developed packages as well as existing ones.
• Preparing reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation, and maintenance of the developed applications.
• Close collaboration with software and hardware teams to ensure on-time and quality release of the developed applications.
• Supporting industrialization and certification efforts for the newly developed products and the upgrades of the existing products.
• Additional responsibilities include participating in the factory- and site acceptance testing of the non-standard and more complex customer systems as well as technical support for customer demos.

Required Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Embedded Systems or equivalent qualification (advanced degrees are preferred).
• Solution-oriented mindset and ability to work in a highly dynamic and fast-paced work environment.
• High interest and focus on practical experimentation, from the system design, testing and validation, up to product certification.
• At least two years of experience in FPGA/SoC design.

Required Skills

• Proficiency in VHDL and/or (System) Verilog.
• AMD (Xilinx) tool flow (Vitis, Vivado, XSDK)
• Language: English (required), German (preferred).
• Knowledge about CI / CD pipelines
• SCM (atlassin, gitlab, github)
• C/C++ (for embedded systems)

Preferred Skills

• Practical experience with Yocto
• Practical experience with Intel (Altera) tool flow (Quartus)
• Practical experience with MATLAB/Simulink and Xilinx System Generator
• Practical experience with HIL systems
• (Basic) knowledge of power electronics
• (Basic) knowledge of electrical engineering

What we offer

• An annual gross salary of at least EUR 50.000 (full-time) is planned for this position. The actual amount of your remuneration will depend on your qualifications and your experience and will be agreed upon individually.

• Flexible working hours (flextime) and opportunity to work from home.
• A strong innovative spirit, cooperation with universities and research institutions as well as our customers' R&D teams.
• An international team of experienced and motivated coworkers and fast and effective internal communication channels.
• A Forward-looking technology-oriented environment with excellent professional and personal development and training opportunities.

EGSTON Power Electronics

Elisabeth Birke

HR