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In this role, you will design, implement, and verify closed-loop control systems in FPGA, including gain/power control (AGC/APC), pump feedforward and PI feedback, VOA control, transient suppression, optical power monitoring, and laser safety shutdown. You will work closely with optical, hardware, and firmware engineers as well as customers to translate system requirements into stable, measurable, and verifiable hardware behavior.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, implement, and optimize closed-loop control algorithms in FPGA, including feedforward and PI control of pump lasers, VOA control, gain/power control modes, and bumpless transfer between modes.\nDevelop control and signal processing models in MATLAB or Python (loop stability, discretization, filter design, fixed-point quantization effects) and translate them into efficient, bit-accurate RTL implementations.\nDesign the PD optical power monitoring chain, including ADC interfaces, anti-aliasing and digital filtering, dB/mW conversion, calibration, Tidemark peak hold, and alarm detection.\nDevelop on the Xilinx Zynq SoC platform, including PS-PL interfaces (AXI4-Lite/AXI4, register maps, interrupts, and DMA as needed), and define the hardware/software partitioning together with firmware engineers.\nAchieve timing closure and fit designs into resource-constrained devices; develop self-checking testbenches; perform board-level debugging using ILA and lab instruments.\nVerify performance in the lab using tunable light sources, optical spectrum analyzers (OSA), variable optical attenuators, optical power meters, and oscilloscopes, and analyze transient, accuracy, and stability test results.\nAnalyze customer specifications and test reports, identify root causes (FPGA, firmware, hardware, or optics), propose solutions, and document findings.\nQualifications\nBachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Control Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field.\nStrong foundation in control theory, including PID/PI design, stability analysis, discretization of continuous-time controllers, anti-windup and saturation handling, and step/transient response tuning.\n5+ years of hands-on FPGA development experience (Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL), with a track 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