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Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Develop, maintain, and extend FPGA IP for data acceleration in the cloud.Deploy and maintain systems to meet significant quality, reliability, and service level requirements.Work in a team of hardware and software engineers to deploy working systems to a very large user base.

Kirkland, WA

• Designed, implemented, modified, synthesized, verified, and evaluated logic using VHDL per the system architecture for use in gate arrays (FPGAs).
• Wrote and followed both design and test documentation.
• Provided reliable development estimates.
• Tested hardware functionality at both the unit and system level.
• Resolved design defects and issues.

Rockville, MD

• Hardware Engineer working on the Ryft ONE compute appliance from requirements through production.
• Lead development of the system control FPGA including PCIe, flash, configuration, and I2C interfaces.
• Debug VHDL designs using Modelsim and Vivado Hardware Manager.
• Assist development of memory FPGA dealing with streaming data packets and DDR3 memory interfaces.
• Work with PCB engineers to define FPGA interfaces and participate in Design Reviews.

Alexandria, VA

• Examine patent applications for display electronics and understand the concept of the invention
• Search for prior patents or other literature which is similar to the claimed invention
• Write a formal response to the applicant with a decision on the patentability of the application

Dulles, VA

• Member of the Cygnus Spacecraft program as part of NASA’s Commercial Resupply Service to the ISS
• Investigated the root cause of test failures and wrote test reports during spacecraft level testing
• Worked with a developmental FPGA for prototyping hardware designs for a new communication system
• Performed reliability analysis tasks including destructive part analysis and X-rays of circuit card assemblies
• Analyzed telemetry and debugged anomalies for the electrical subsystem during Mission Rehearsals
• Assembled, tested and debugged the first stage electronics of the Antares Rocket with Ukrainian engineers

Dulles, VA

• Researched new electronic assembly methods for space level circuit cards
• Worked on multiple project teams and organized meetings to present progress
• Gained familiarity with Cadence software as well as documentation procedures and project management

Bethesda, MD

• Developed automated tests for a new Internet sales application with the Commercial Sales Team
• Assigned individual projects with minimal supervision and worked on with other interns on projects