Embedded Systems Engineer

Embedded Systems Engineer

CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research

Geneva, Switzerland

What you'll do

In this role, you will contribute to the development of next-generation readout and control systems for the LHCb experiment, focusing on FPGA gateware and low-level embedded software in both bare-metal and Linux environments. You will participate in the design, implementation and testing of scalable and high-performance solutions that interface with detector electronics and data acquisition systems.

Your responsibilities

• Collaborate with hardware, firmware (FPGA), embedded software and control system engineers to define system requirements and interface specifications.
• Analyse current and future detector control workloads to define realistic performance benchmarks.
• Define and implement solutions that distribute control functions across FPGA logic and embedded processors to optimise performance, reliability and maintainability.
• Test, validate and refine prototypes in laboratory environments.
• Prepare clear technical documentation and guidelines to support developers and researchers integrating the solutions into their experiments.

Your profile

• Knowledge in developing, simulating and validating FPGA gateware.
• Experience in writing, profiling and optimising C code.
• Knowledge in hardware/software specification and co-design.
• Your studies focused on Electronics Engineer.

Your skills

• VHDL 2008 (VUnit and UVVM experience is a plus).
• C for embedded applications and Linux device drivers (Rust is a plus).
• Intel Quartus or AMD Vivado toolchains (both is a plus).
• RISC-V instruction set architecture (experience with FPGA softcores like PicoRV32, Nios® V, Microblaze™ V is a plus).
• Low-level communication interfaces (I2C, JTAG, DDR, ...) (experience with lpGBT is a plus).
• Linux distributions for System-on-Chip FPGAs (Yocto, Petalinux, ...).
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.