FPGA Developer

Meinberg USA Inc. - Career

Meinberg is a world leader in network time synchronization. Our products are deployed in mission-critical applications around the world including power grids, stock exchanges and banks, live TV and radio programs, air traffic control systems, and hyper-scale data centers. Meinberg products provide time and frequency for hundreds of millions of mobile devices, computers, and communication networks.

In a world of growing complexity with distributed systems, time synchronization is key to accomplish the todays and tomorrow’s challenges of our valued customers. Meinberg is always at the edge of state-of-the-art synchronization technology to provide best value to your valued customers.

Meinberg is a German company, headquartered in Bad Pyrmont, Germany with a design center in Vienna, Austria. Propelled by our growth, Meinberg has recently established our US headquarters in Santa Rosa, California and is expanding quickly.

We are looking for:

• FPGA Developer

Job Opening: FPGA Developer (m/f/d)

Meinberg USA is growing quickly and supports a wide variety of customers in several market segments including power grid, defense, broadcast/media, finance, datacenter, and telecom. Meinberg synchronization products are used extensively in broadcast and media industries, from content production to streaming networks, including at the world’s greatest sports events – the SuperBowl and the Olympics.

Hardware design is a new department of Meinberg USA and will work on a broadcast infrastructure project with the engineering team at headquarters in Germany and cooperate with the Vienna engineering team. FPGA development is central to our IP and creating a pioneering product line. <

Job responsibilities:

• Development and integration of RTL into FPGA and SoC based clock, IP, SMPTE ST 2110 and SDI systems
• Work with other members of the team to verify the functionality of FPGA & HW designs
• Assist in supporting other staff members as necessary through entire NPI process flow – including design, documentation, test, manufacturing and customer support

As an investment in success, Meinberg will provide training in network time synchronization technology and Meinberg products. Technical training will include GPS, NTP (network time protocol), and PTP (IEEE-1588 precision time protocol), our complete product line, both hardware and software, and broadcast standards (ST-2110, SMPTE ST 2059-2).

What Meinberg expects from you:

• 2+ years experience with FPGA designs in VHDL or Verilog (VHDL preferred)
• FPGA & HW development experience with focus or expertise in Video/Audio and SDI technologies preferred.
• Knowledge of broadcast studio applications & workflow preferred, especially Live Events Production systems a plus.
• An understanding of Static Timing Analysis and Timing Closure techniques
• Experience with version control using tools such as Git
• Strong communication skills, problem solver and good team player
• Creative, dependable and hard working
• Desire to contribute to a growing company and share the work and challenges

Good to have but not mandatory:

• Knowledge of time synchronization technologies
• Altera Quatrus Pro
• Experience with in-system debugging of FPGAs

What Meinberg offers:

• Great Life/Work balance
• Excellent health insurance
• Dental and Vision insurance
• 401k
• Above average PTO

Job Location:

Meinberg USA Inc., Santa Rosa, CA

Recognition and rewards based on performance This position is a great opportunity to join a small and growing team. Meinberg USA has a fun, friendly, creative, and collaborative working environment with a high mix of exciting challenges, the opportunity to learn new skills, and the excitement of wearing many hats.

Meinberg invests in the professional development of our employees.
Meinberg respects and encourages diversity.

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Meinberg is a world leader in network time synchronization. Our products are deployed in mission-critical applications around the world including power grids, stock exchanges and banks, live TV and radio programs, air traffic control systems, and hyper-scale data centers. Meinberg products provide time and frequency for hundreds of millions of mobile devices, computers, and communication networks.