Test Automation Engineer FPGA (m/f/d)

Cs2 ITEC offers excellent opportunities for both career starters or experienced specialists for professional and personal development.

In exciting and varied activities for major international customers and corporations, you will build up in-depth specialist knowledge of the latest technologies or broad project management and management know-how, depending on the task and position. Due to the variety of our topics, we can offer different technology areas and tasks, depending on your personal wishes.

We offer:

• Varied activities in an exciting work environment
• Major international projects with well-known customers
• Work in a friendly and motivated team
• Pleasant and collegial working environment
• Interesting prospects for professional and personal development
• Attractive salary and flexible, family-friendly working hours

Task and responsibilities:

• Implement automated test suites for FPGA designs using VHDL, covering both functional and performance testing
• Integrate the automated tests into our CI/CD pipeline, leveraging tools like GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD
• Develop test harnesses and frameworks to enable efficient and scalable FPGA testing using VHDL and VUnit
• Collaborate with FPGA designers and developers to understand requirements and implement test automation solutions
• Design, build, and configure complex test racks with FPGA hardware and supporting equipment
• Implement the use of simulation tools like Modelsim and Questasim for FPGA verification with VHDL
• Work with FPGA vendor tools such as Altera Quartus, Xilinx Vivado, and Lattice Diamond to ensure seamless integration
• Analyze test results, identify and troubleshoot issues, and provide recommendations for process improvements
• Document test strategies, procedures, and results to ensure traceability and maintainability

Knowledge:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• Extensive experience in implementing test automation, particularly in the FPGA or hardware design domain using VHDL
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and configure complex test racks for FPGA and System hardware
• Strong expertise in FPGA design and verification methodologies
• Familiarity with some of the tools listed in the above responsabilities
• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages like Python, bash, (yaml, C optional) and VHDL
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• Language skills: German fluent; English fluent (one of both at least)

We look forward to getting to know you!

Cs2 ITEC GmbH & Co. KG
Anton-Bruckner-Straße 2a
91052 Erlangen