FPGA Engineer

Company: NetScout Systems, inc.
Location: San Jose, CA
Posted on: January 11, 2018

Job Description:

Develop validation and test plans for complex field programmable gate arrays

(FPGAs). Utilize digital design to develop validation/test plans for complex

networking test equipment. Apply in-depth understanding of digital

electronic packet processing functionalities to develop test documents.

Build and execute test cases and test plans on new and existing FPGA designs.

Collaborate with development, verification, hardware, manufacturing, ME and

QA Engineers, document test results, and release software/firmware images.

Debug FPGA validation issues and maintain validation dashboard with tracking

and indicators. Perform unit level system verification and regression test

sculpting and execution. Leverage understanding of hardware application and

programming analysis as applied to the development of test documents. Apply

advanced understanding of switches, routers and packet flow technologies.

Education & Experience Requirements:

Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Electrical Engineering, Computer

Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or a related field and

one (1) year of experience developing validation test plans for field

programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and network test equipment.

Or in the alternative:

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Electrical Engineering, Computer

Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or a related field and

three (3) years of experience as indicated above.

Also requires:

1) Demonstrated expertise performing Quality Assurance testing, solution

development, and feature design analysis to verify and validate FPGA

requirements;

2) Demonstrated expertise leveraging protocol analyzer, packet generation

tools and applying network protocols including, Ethernet, MPLS, VLAN ,

TCP/IP networking, HTTP, LTE/GTP, and GRE/ERSPAN tunneling protocols to

understand, generate, and optimize verification tests;

3) Demonstrated expertise utilizing Altera and Xilinx hardware tools to

understand, program, and debug FPGAsl and,

4)Demonstrated expertise designing and testing digital boards of high

performance memory interfaces including, DDR3/4 and RLDRAM.

Send resume to careers@netscout.com and include "Job Code JKMN-FPGAE" in the

subject line.

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