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Principal FPGA Firmware Engineer

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San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/17/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/17/2025

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Principal FPGA Firmware Engineer

Apply locations USA - CA - San Jose (Ridder) time type Full time posted on Posted 22 Days Ago job requisition id 2023708

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Lumentum’s Commercial Laser Group is seeking a Lead / Principal Firmware Engineer to join our growing firmware / software team.

This is a unique and challenging role as Lumentum is on an initiative to grow our product portfolio and your opportunity is being part of that new technology and innovation team focused on developing new laser platforms.

As a FW Technical Lead, you will be responsible for overall FW / SW architecture, design choices and implementation of key features. This is a cross functional role that interacts with electrical, mechanical and optical teams as well as the broader FW / SW team. The individual will be expected to work with a dynamic, talented team of hardware, software and test engineers developing state-of-the art laser technology and products. The successful candidate will be a technical expert capable of architecting and implementing embedded software solutions on Linux, bare-metal, and RTOS environments. The candidate will be working with a multi-disciplinary team and own the end-to-end FPGA firmware design from RTL through production.

The Principal Firmware FPGA engineer will support all phases of firmware development targeting embedded systems, including design, coding, integration, and debugging of major portions of the embedded system.

Bring your enthusiasm and experience and join our growing team!

Responsibilities :

  • Design, develop, enhance and debug new and existing firmware (C,Python,VHDL) for our next generation Laser products.
  • Work with electronics hardware, software, and testing teams to define product requirements and develop FPGA vision and roadmap for innovation.
  • Architect light-weight FPGA / MCU solutions for digital control system
  • Generation of requirements, FPGA coding in various industry tools, FPGA verification and traceability mapping
  • Work in a cross-functional team to design, implement, and verify RTL using Verilog or System Verilog HDL
  • Develop customized libraries and testbenches to facilitate rapid digital FPGA design deployment and reuse.
  • Programming in high-level and low-level languages as appropriate including C / C , Verilog / VHDL.
  • Support estimation activities associated with new and remapping FPGA design efforts.

Required Qualifications :

  • BS / MS. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
  • 8 years embedded systems design and development experience in an agile development.
  • Proven FPGA architecture and design industrial experience with applied knowledge of AMD(Xilinx) and / or Intel(Altera) FPGA devices and application environments
  • Demonstrated skills of embedded system architecture and design patterns, formulating specifications and implementation firmware for complex embedded systems
  • Strong proficiency in in C, C , Verilog / VHDL, Python
  • Experience designing real-time embedded systems on bare-metal or RTOS
  • Expertise designing and implementing complex systems with HDL : System Verilog or Verilog
  • Solid understanding of digital design concepts, timing issues and clock domain crossing.
  • Good communication skills in English
  • Experience in leadership, mentoring, organization and coordination skills
  • Preferred Qualifications :

  • Humble, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude, with the grit to get things done.
  • Experience developing Software / Hardware coverage, stimulations, and test.
  • Extremely proficient in VHLD / Verilog and C programming or equivalent.
  • Experience in developing and debugging scripts (Python or similar)
  • Debug experience resulting into solving complex Hardware / Firmware interface issues.
  • About Us

    It’s an exciting time to join Lumentum! Lumentum (NASDAQ : LITE) is a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide. Lumentum’s optical components and subsystems are part of virtually every type of telecom, enterprise, and data center network. Lumentum’s commercial lasers enable advanced manufacturing techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D sensing capabilities. Lumentum is headquartered in San Jose, California with R&D, manufacturing, and sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.lumentum.com .

    We believe Lumentum is a great place to work and we support a diverse and inclusive culture where employees bring their whole and authentic selves to work. We strive to build meaningful connections that fuel innovation to produce products that impact the world. We are committed to creating a diverse and welcoming workplace that includes employees with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We believe that enables us to better meet our mission and values while serving customers throughout our global communities. People of color, women, LGBTQIA , veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

    All offers of employment are subject to background checks, appropriate work authorizations, and depending on the country, drug screens may be required prior to the start date.

    As a global employer, Lumentum is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. Protected categories differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but may include race, ethnic origin, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

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