Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Job Field
- Embedded
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Ditzingen
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this position, you develop the digital front-end logic for sensor demonstrators, design and implement real-time waveform generators, and work on high-throughput data acquisition procedures on modern SoC platforms.
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Your role in the team
- As FPGA Engineer, you own the digital front-end of our sensor demonstrators: you design, implement, and deploy real-time waveform generation and high-throughput data acquisition chains on modern heterogeneous SoC platforms that combine programmable logic with embedded multi-core processors.
- You turn algorithm specifications into deterministic, cycle-accurate hardware - from the digital interface of the RF front-end to the high-rate data link feeding the downstream processing chain and thereby lay the foundation the entire team builds on.
- Implement real-time waveform generation, timing, trigger and sequencing logic (pulse scheduling, coherent timing control) in programmable logic and integrate high-speed data converters and their digital interfaces including multi-channel synchronization and deterministic latency.
- Implement digital down-/up-conversion, filtering, decimation/interpolation, calibration corrections, fixed-point design, and bit-true verification against reference models provided by the algorithm team.
- Define processor/fabric partitioning, DMA-based data movement, and memory-mapped control interfaces towards embedded Linux, and collaborate with the embedded software engineers on register maps, drivers, and board bring-up.
- Develop simulation testbenches, achieve timing closure, perform on-target debugging with lab equipment (logic analyzers, signal generators, spectrum analyzers).
- Document designs and interfaces and contribute to design reviews in line with our development process.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Completed technical studies, e.g., in computer science or electrical engineering.
- High-speed interfaces and on-chip buses: AXI-class interconnects, DMA, multi-gigabit serial links / JESD204-class converter interfaces.
- Solid fundamentals of digital signal processing and fixed-point arithmetic.
- Embedded Linux integration (device trees, boot flow, vendor build systems) advantageous.
- Background in software-defined radio, radar or other coherent RF sensing systems advantageous.
- Strong team and communication skills in a small, interdisciplinary prototyping team.
- Analytical and structured way of thinking and working.
- Self-directed, proactive working style with a high level of ownership.
- Precision and quality awareness, especially in verification and interface definition.
- Pragmatic, hands-on prototyping mindset - willingness to iterate fast and learn from hardware.
- Willingness to travel for integration and measurement campaigns (~15%).
- Very good German and English skills.
Experience
- Strong RTL design experience (VHDL and/or Verilog/SystemVerilog), including simulation and verification methodology.
- Hands-on experience with SoC FPGAs combining programmable logic and embedded processors, including the corresponding vendor toolchains and build flows.
- High-Level Synthesis (HLS) experience for DSP datapaths advantageous.
- Experience with timing and synchronization concepts in multi-channel/multi-board systems advantageous.
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What we offer
- The Group invests more than €4.5 billion per year in Research & Development in key areas, particularly for critical environments, such as Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum, and cloud technologies.
- In 2025, the Group generated sales of €22.1 billion.
- For our more than 85,000 employees in 65 countries, we open up visionary perspectives, realize individual career paths, and enable creative freedom.
- This is achieved with courage, versatility and the firm intention to make the demanding challenges of our time safer and more inclusive.
- With our sustainable value-focused management, we actively support diversity.
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- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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FPGA Engineer - Digital Front End & Real-Time Waveform Generation
- Location
- Ditzingen
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
