Staff Software Development Engineer

There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality.

Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for.

Lattice is seeking candidates for the position of Staff Software Development Engineer in FPGA place and route. This is a full-time position located in India.

The successful candidate will join a team designing and developing Lattice FPGA software tools. The candidate will contribute to delivering software solution for Lattice FPGA development with emphasis on Lattice synthesis tool. The candidate is expected to be an expert in FPGA synthesis core engine with knowledge on how to achieve optimal solution for a given architecture and be able to support next generation FPGA with best result in Fmax, Area, Runtime as well as memory utilization The candidate will team up with other synthesis developers and develop synthesis engine for various FPGA products. The responsibility also includes customer support, new software feature support as well as QoR improvement. The candidate is expected to maintain existing software products and interact with other teams to facilitate a value-added solution too.

Accountabilities: 

• Develop and deliver state-of-art and software infrastructure for world-class ease-of-use FPGA software tool for small, mid-range and large FPGA products.
• Develop software capabilities for next generation of FPGA products.
• Support and maintain existing FPGA design tools.
• Contribute to Spec and Plan process - review marketing requirement documents, generate functional specifications and developer unit test plans to ensure quality software.
• Improve development methodologies and processes.
• Candidate will work on developing advanced security flows, like Isolation Design Flow and partial reconfiguration flows

Qualifications:

• BS/MS/PhD Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
• 10+ years of experience in large-scale software development for engineering application domains preferably in FPGA/ASIC EDA domains.
• Must be proficient with C++. Modern C++ proficiency is a plus.
• Experience in partial reconfiguration flow is a plus
• Strong background in object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms, and graph theory
• Experience of working on multiple platforms – at least Linux and Windows – is required.
• Knowledge of shell, TCL or Python scripting is a plus.
• Familiarity with commercial FPGA software tools and design flow is a plus. Knowledge in FPGA logic design is a plus.
• Must be detail oriented and possess independent problem-solving skills. Must be able to drive projects and lead a discussion.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and collaboration skill with the ability to work with multiple groups.