Job Description

FPGA Design & Verification Engineer - Los Angeles

FIRMWARE ENGINEER – LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Are you an experienced Firmware Engineer looking for a new challenge and an opportunity to further advance your skills and career in a great working environment? Join our fast-growing team supporting leading Defense companies! If you are a highly motivated individual, a self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit and a genuine interest in technology, we have the perfect job for you!  

WHO IS QUEST?

Our goal is to become the most recognized and trusted global engineering partner for our customers—Fortune 500 companies in the Aerospace, Medical Devices, Oil & Gas, Power, and Transportation industries. We know we can find solutions to their most important technical and business challenges they encounter. We aren’t consultants. We help them make their products the most competitive in the world and that’s how we’ve grown to over 13,000 problem solvers from 70 centers around the world. We aspire to be a 100-year company, which doesn’t mean staid and boring, but rather, we evolve and adapt to create the frontier of the engineering services industry.

THE TEAM

QuEST has a track record of scaling services for new customers.  We are leveraging that expertise to build a new team in Florida supporting one of the largest defense contractors in the country.  As a member of this team, you will be on the front lines helping establish the next big account for QuEST.  Experienced managers in Delivery will be supporting you and the new team as we launch our unique Engineering Process Services model to help our customers recapture some of their precious bandwidth and help them deliver top notch aerospace and defense products.

THE ROLE

The successful candidate will possess a combination of technical and behavioral skills to thrive in an engineering manufacturing environment.  We are seeking a full time FPGA Engineer who will design, develop, test & verify FPGAs to meet the requirements of our customers.  This includes new FPGA designs as well as reprogramming them for new missions.  You will typically operate as part of a development project team, exercising autonomy as a unified group. You will work with Senior Software & Electrical Engineers & Technical Leads to implement and review test plans, data, and reports to ensure product(s) complies with requirements. You may at times be involved with multiple projects across all phases of development, and as a result, you can expect plenty of variety and a well-rounded workload.  One of the most critical aspects to the role is ability to adapt to changing requirements and priorities, collaborate with team mates and customers, and communicate effectively with QuEST and customer stakeholders.  Successful candidates will be proactive in overcoming obstacles, providing answers to questions, keeping the process moving, and always looking for ways to improve, and communicating clearly and often to all stakeholders within the customer and QuEST.

OUR CULTURE

We just crossed the 21-year mark, and despite remarkable growth, we have maintained a culture of empowerment at all levels—what we call intrapreneurial. You will be part of the decision making to drive continuous improvements so we can stay happy and healthy as a business in a challenging industry. Not everyone is a great fit. We will throw you into the deep end (with lots of support), but if you want to swim, you have much opportunity. We’re not a place where laziness, ego, or rigid thinking fit in, and that’s intentional. You can do more at this company than you can in twice the time anywhere else. We accelerate success; you control the throttle and hold the yoke.

Job Functions

• Develop/design FPGAs for military communications technology applications, including Space environments
• Perform FPGA verification and testing procedures
• Responsibilities will span the FPGA lifecycle, including: requirements generation, architecture development, design, verification, and implementation support
• Working with a cross-functional team during module/unit/system level integration and test in the laboratory.
• Provide support to qualification test activities.
• Interact with customers and transpose requirements into technical designs
• Develop design documents, project documentation, release documents, and technical procedural documentation
• Work within budgetary and schedule constraints
• Contribute to the Scrum/Agile working environment
• Interface with other QuEST departments to achieve cross functional goals

QUALIFICATIONS

We’re excited to talk to you if your qualifications meet the following criteria:

• B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
• Experience in VHDL-based RTL and functional design, analysis, and verification.
• Experience in UVM verification environment and verification test benches
• 10+ years of FPGA/ASIC experience
• Experience with FPGA and CPLD devices and development tools from Xilinx, Altera, and/or Lattice.
• Proficiency with Modelsim and/or QuestaSim
• The ability to develop architectural approaches to meet written requirements.
• Experience performing hardware/software/FPGA integration in a laboratory environment.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new methods, techniques, and approaches
• Demonstrated communication skills
• Agile software development experience
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team environment
• Enjoy people and dynamic teams with diverse experiences. We have fun together!
• US Citizen required due to nature of work
• Preferred:
  • Active US Security Clearance holder preferred
  • Agile Process Tools (e.g. Jira) experience
  • DSP and communications specific experience
  • Experience with Verilog and/or System Verilog for design verification
  • Experience incorporating third party IP into FPGA designs, including high-speed serial interfaces
  • Experience using DOORS for requirements capture and flow-down.
  • Experience with configuration control tools such as Git or Clearcase.

Company Description

About QuEST QuEST Global is an Engineering Solutions company incorporated in 1997 in Schenectady, NY, with current headquarters in Singapore. QuEST’s culture, focused around the QuEST core values (Customer Focus, Change Championship, Accountability, and Teamwork) as well as our passion for engineering, has allowed QuEST to be recognized as one of the leading global Engineering Services providers in the world. The company now employs over 12,000 engineers with aspirations of continued successful growth and innovation. QuEST caters to multiple high technology verticals such as Aero Engines, Aerospace and Defense, Industrial Products, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Power Generation, Oil & Gas and Nuclear Engineering. Our portfolio of services and solutions covers all aspects of the product development and engineering process such as Product Design, Product Development, Prototyping, Testing, Certification, Manufacturing Support, Product Support (sustenance, repair, documentation, etc.), Product re-engineering, as well Consulting Services. With our diversified portfolio and geographic spread we have been able to conceptualize, design & develop, test, manufacture, certify and support different kinds of products worldwide. QuEST Global Engineering has a Global Product Development framework that is anchored on a local-global approach to Product Engineering to ensure close co-operation between the customer teams and QuEST's Global teams. We have successfully implemented a network of collaboration across teams in 21 geographically dispersed engineering centers catering to an exclusive list of customers. QuEST is a unique company that has cracked the code for stitching multi-national engineering teams to work together as one team to serve our demanding customers providing high quality product design and engineering services.