What are the responsibilities and job description for the FPGA Engineer position at Weatherford?
Overview
Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities, operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation.
We are focused on technology development, digital solutions, and defining our footprint in the new energy space. Our ability to provide integrated solutions across our segments will be critical to growth in our core operations and the energy transition.
Energy producers face unique challenges every day, so it is our job to create solutions that enhance safety, streamline operations, and sustain uptime to meet or exceed their targets. We operate across the global energy landscape employing some of the best diverse talent in the industry. At Weatherford, we understand the value each individual brings to the table. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and are immensely proud of our workforce. We invite you to join our passionate, talented, word-class team.
When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger – a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other’s successes, grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford.
Weatherford offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits program and provides you a challenging and enriching career path, with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course.
Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Responsibilities
Weatherford has multiple openings for Firmware Engineers at multiple levels for our West Hardy Road location and Spencer Road location. The firmware engineers will be working within a supportive, inclusive team in a fast-paced, progressive environment. Weatherford provides training, excellent benefits, and fantastic career progression.
The ideal candidate will be a technical expert, leading in the design of new products and product improvements. The candidate is expected to have DSP and/or FPGA Embedded Firmware design experience. Downhole tool (MWD/Wireline) Firmware experience is desired. They will work as part of an interdisciplinary team, sharing responsibility for executing challenging projects to plan and produce high-performance reliable products. They will leverage their extensive experience, creativity, and resourcefulness to be a significant contributor to team planning and success, and be willing and able to perform a wide range of tasks in doing so.
Responsibilities:
- Primary DSP and/or FPGA SME in a multidisciplinary R&D group
- Demonstrate knowledge of high-speed practices and standards for electronic circuit boards and assemblies
- Will contribute to analysis, design, testing, integration and documentation of printed circuit assemblies and higher-level system interfaces
- Sustaining work with product engineers and managers to identify and enable product improvements, standardization, certification, etc. as well as identifying and approving alternates due to obsolescence and supply shortages
- Assist field engineers with equipment failures and anomalies via internal remote support queries
Qualifications
- Must have Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or other relevant degree
- Multiple openings; Principle Engineers must have 15 years of experience, Sr Project Engineers must have 6 years
- 6 years of experience in DSP or FPGA Firmware design and development experience
- Experienced in writing RTL and/or test benches using VHDL, Verilog, or System Verilog
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and multi-tasking skills
- Experience or familiarity with Matlab and Lab-view electronic design tools
- Adept skills utilizing test and measurement equipment such as logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes
- Advanced and diversified knowledge of engineering principles
- Working knowledge of analog & digital electronics, sensors and signal processing
- Familiarity with instrumentation & controls as used in an oilfield environment, onshore and offshore
- Willingness to target minimum viable product to align with program objectives
