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# FPGA Platform Lead

- **Company:** NXP
- **Location:** Caen, France
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Engineering, Software Debugging, Microprocessors, Electronic Design Automation, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Software Engineering, Verification and Validation (Software)
- **Published:** May 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://fr.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c3384189aa72a8de

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Software development?, Do you have a Associate's degree?, * Degree/Masters in Electronic and/or Computer Engineering with 7+ years of experience

 * Knowledge of the entire FPGA flow from RTL through partitioning and synthesis and generation of bitfiles for loading onto FPGA
 * Expertise in debugging of designs on FPGA, using external debuggers, special builds and other techniques
 * nderstanding of the architecture, elements and functionality of SoC's, including CPUs, DMA, MMU, PLL, memory and peripheral interfaces
 * Experience in development of FPGAs containing significant analog content is a bonus
 * Understanding of software development process for embedded CPUs and experience in developing and debugging software
 * Expertise in the use of EDA tools for FPGA synthesis
 * Experience with debug on designs pre- and post-silicon, in simulation and on the bench

Your personal traits

 * Rigorous and methodical with good analytical skills
 * Flexible and adaptable with an ability to verify and validate, and debug at several levels and on many different platforms
 * Paying attention to details, tenacity/pugnacity in tracing, finding and solving problems
 * Ability to question and identify weaknesses in written specification, tools environment, …
 * Good team player "working together" with ability to work across teams and sites
 * Good communication skills both verbal and in writing

## Description

As a key member of the team, you will actively contribute to the verification and validation of our SoC's functionality and performance. And you will be responsible for:

 * the development of the FPGA verification platforms and the delivery of this platform to customers within the Design and Project teams (Verification, Validation, Software teams) and to external customers,
 * the Interface to Firmware and Software, Architecture, Design teams as well as End Users to understand Product Use Cases and requirements,
 * the FPGA strategy definition for the Design as a function of its Architecture, the expected Use Cases, the limitations of the technology and the schedule constraints,
 * the methodology development for handling on non-digital components within the FPGA (Analog blocks, Non Volatile memories, …),
 * the work with Design, Verification, Validation, Firmware and Software teams to debug and correct issues or identify work-arounds,
 * the development drive of external boards and interfaces when needed,
 * the regular report and updates of the Design and Platform to the customers,
 * the support of large numbers of distributed users using FPGA farm or other means.


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