CAREERS

Obsidian is a dynamic technology company developing high-performance optical communications equipment that interfaces to compute clusters and supercomputers. The company's Longbow technology addresses military, enterprise, science/simulation and higher education markets, where speed, correctness and reliability are paramount.

You will be part of a tightly-integrated multi-disciplinary team focused on developing 10 to 100 gigabit networking equipment with a focus on InfiniBand and line rate stream data processing.

We are seeking a FPGA developer to work on implementation and test of FPGAs geared toward networking and packet processing. Obsidian develops using a broad range of technologies including:

• System Verilog and OVM
• SV DPI (in C++), SVA and PSL
• QuestaSim
• GNU make, bash, TCL, python, git and other tools
• InfiniBand protocol, physical, electrical, and link
• 1G/10G/40G Ethernet protocol, including RGMII, SGMII, XAUI, XSBI and CTBI
• SONET/SDH (broadly)
• IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks
• Ethernet MAC-SEC, AES and GCM
• Various common interfaces: DDR, DDR2, QDR2, SPI4.2, SFI4.1
• Xilinx hard IP blocks, including all flavours of GTs
• Theory of successful high speed design - signal integrity, power integrity, jitter and other physical analog effects
• C++

The successful candidate will have the following skills:

• Strong understanding of the VHDL language and use of VHDL with Synplify for FPGA synthesis
• Thorough understanding of Xilinx Virtex 4 and 5 hardware architectures
• Excellent troubleshooting skills

Candidates with the following education are preferred:

• Degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering

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