Vacancy Name: Senior IC Digital Design Engineer
Location City: Athens
Location Country: Greece

About u-blox
Swiss-based u-blox (SIX: UBXN) is the global leader in wireless and positioning semiconductors for the automotive, industrial and consumer markets. Our solutions enable people, vehicles and machines to locate their exact position and wirelessly communicate via voice, text or video. With a broad portfolio of chips, modules and software solutions, u-blox is uniquely positioned to allow OEMs to develop innovative solutions that enable mobility quickly and cost-effectively. With headquarters in Thalwil, Switzerland, u-blox is globally present with offices in Europe, Asia and the USA.

Job Description
To support the design of next-generation SoCs in positioning, cellular and short-range applications, u-blox Athens is looking for a Senior engineer interested in digital IC design. To work in u-blox IC team you need to be creative, innovative, enthusiastic about new technologies, and striving for excellence. The ideal candidate will start working on real project tasks with help and guidance of experienced engineers. Through teamwork, training and dedication to personal development, u-blox goal is that every engineer quickly learns about different aspects of designing complex SoCs, starts contributing to various project tasks, and finally develops into an expert in the field.
Key responsibilities of a Senior IC digital engineer will be to contribute/drive the requirements and specification analysis phase, the micro-architectural definition, the digital design (RTL), the (static/formal) verification, synthesis, static timing analysis, gate-level simulations, power estimations and optimization of IPs. The engineer should work with the rest of the design and verification team to meet the targeted specifications. Finally, (s) he should be responsible to plan, track and report activities related to the implementation of the IPs.

Primary Tasks

• Lead the design and RTL implementation of key IPs
• Requirements/Specification analysis and micro-architectural definition
• Test planning, verification coverage analysis and performance evaluation
• Full IP/subsystems verification using test bench based testing and coverage-driven verification techniques
• Contribute to the IP top-level integration and FPGA prototyping for early IP testing in FPGA
• IP API development for testing purposes (SoC-level simulation and FPGA)
• Perform power analysis and propose design optimizations (area, timing, power)
• Utilize and evolve u-blox digital IC and FPGA flow
• Plan, track, and report for the key IP activities
• Responsible for technical documentation and reports (English language)
• Patent creation

Profile

• PhD/MS or BS in electrical, electronic or computing engineering
• 5+ years of experience in digital IC and FPGA flow
• Excellent logic design experience including algorithmic-based optimization for low-area/high-throughput designs
• Exposure to power management techniques for low-power architectures
• Experience in design of multiple clock and power domain architectures
• Exposure to static and formal verification techniques and technologies
• Have experience in Matlab modeling and fixed-point arithmetic
• Exposure to low-level programming for IP testing purposes
• Experience in integration of commercial, 3rd party IPs, such as: Embedded CPUs, SoC interconnects, DMAs, peripherals, co-processors, memories, etc
• Experience in FPGA prototyping: XILINX/Altera toolchains, SoC-level testing and verification of IPs and/or subsystems by using embedded software
• Familiar with Unix environment and shell programming/scripting (C-shell, Tcl, Perl, Python)
• Experience with version control systems (Perforce, GIT, SVN)
• Strive for innovation and adoption of leading edge solutions
• Previous experience in working with teams while capable of working independently and precisely
• Good communications skills
• Greek (or EU) citizen or holder of a valid Greek work permit

Contact
Are you interested in this challenging position within an international work environment in a successful company? Apply now! You will be working with a motivated team in an exciting technology.
We are looking forward to receiving your application.

https://ublox.secure.force.com/recruit/fRecruit__ApplyJob?vacancyNo=VN749

Vacancy Name : Hardware System Engineer
Location City: Athens
Location Country: Greece

About u-blox
Swiss-based u-blox (SIX: UBXN) is the global leader in wireless and positioning semiconductors for the automotive, industrial and consumer markets. Our solutions enable people, vehicles and machines to locate their exact position and wirelessly communicate via voice, text or video. With a broad portfolio of chips, modules and software solutions, u-blox is uniquely positioned to allow OEMs to develop innovative solutions that enable mobility quickly and cost-effectively. With headquarters in Thalwil, Switzerland, u-blox is globally present with offices in Europe, Asia and the USA.

Job Description
General Job Goals for Hardware Engineer (System-Engineering)
The Hardware Design Engineer contributes to the specification and is responsible for the design and implementation of radio enabled modules and embedded platforms for automotive applications.

Primary Tasks

• Requirements specification for the automotive embedded platform architecture and components such as MCU, memories and interfaces according to application profile
• Schematic and PCB design of the digital part of the radio enabled module or embedded platform
• Verification and acceptance testing according to specifications

Secondary Tasks

• Technical support of AE regarding HW related customer questions
• User manuals, technical Documentation and reports (English language)

Responsibilities

• Responsibility for lab equipment
• Regular reporting on status and deviations to the plan

Profile

• MS or BS in engineering with a focus on Electronics, Telecommunications or Applied Physics
• Minimum 5 years of industry working experience in related sectors
• Experience in circuit design techniques, schematic and PCB design
• Experience in lab testing
• Experience over full product life cycle from initial specification to transfer to production an advantage
• Wireless knowledge in general. WLAN knowledge an advantage
• Good organizational, planning and communications skills
• Used to and comfortable with working close to partners, customers and suppliers
• Used to work independently and precisely
• Fluent in English
• Greek (or EU) citizen or holder of a valid Greek work permit

Contact
Are you interested in this challenging position within an international work environment in a successful company? Apply now! You will be working with a motivated team in an exciting technology.
We are looking forward to receiving your application.

https://ublox.secure.force.com/recruit/fRecruit__ApplyJob?vacancyNo=VN744

Στο Google Summer of Code(GSoC) μπορούν να συμμετέχουν φοιτητές που έχουν γνώσεις προγραμματισμού και οι οποίοι θέλουν να συμβάλλουν σε έργα ανοιχτού λογισμικού. Οι φοιτητές που θα επιλεγούν θα εργαστούν για 3 μήνες το καλοκαίρι στο έργο ανοιχτού λογισμικού που θα επιλέξουν να συνεισφέρουν και θα χρηματοδοτηθούν με 4.800$, μετά από μηνιαία αξιολόγηση.

Το GSoC, παρέχει χρηματοδότηση σε φοιτητές για να συνεισφέρουν με κώδικα σε έργα ελεύθερου λογισμικού. Υλοποιείται σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο, από το 2005 που ξεκίνησε έχουν συμμετάσχει σε αυτό περισσότεροι από 13.000 φοιτητές από 108 χώρες με αποτέλεσμα να παραχθούν περισσότερες από 33.000.000 γραμμές κώδικα για 608 οργανισμούς ανοιχτού λογισμικού.

Ο Οργανισμός Ανοιχτών Τεχνολογιών (ΕΕΛΛΑΚ), συμμετέχει με 18 έργα ανοιχτού κώδικα και καλεί όσους φοιτητές επιθυμούν να συμβάλλουν σε ένα από τα έργα, να δηλώσουν συμμετοχή στο GSOC 2018 επιλέγοντας το έργο που ταιριάζει στα ενδιαφέροντα και τις δεξιότητες τους.

Αναλυτικές πληροφορίες για τα έργα που προτείνει ο Οργανισμός Ανοιχτών Τεχνολογιών - ΕΕΛΛΑΚ και τις προαπαιτούμενες γνώσεις προγραμματισμού που απαιτούνται μπορείτε να δείτε εδώ

Οι φοιτητές μπορούν να υποβάλουν επίσημα τις προτάσεις τους μέσω της κεντρικής σελίδας του Google Summer of Code, από τις 12 έως τις 27 Μαρτίου 2018, ενώ όσοι ενδιαφέρονται να συμμετέχουν στο GSOC 2018, στα έργα του Οργανισμού Ανοιχτών Τεχνολογιών, μπορούν να στείλουν από σήμερα τις ερωτήσεις τους και να επικοινωνήσουν με τους μέντορες των έργων, μέσω της λίστας opensource-devs@ellak.gr.

Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες σχετικά με το Google Summer of Code 2018, τις ημερομηνίες και τις προθεσμίες υποβολής των προτάσεων, δείτε το https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/.

Είναι γεγονός! Η 5η Έκθεση Μεταφοράς Τεχνογνωσίας - Patras Innovation Quest (Patras IQ) θα πραγματοποιηθεί στις 27, 28 και 29 Απριλίου.
Ερευνητές, Φοιτητές και Επιχειρήσεις, δίνουν ραντεβού στο Αθλητικό Κέντρο «Δ. Τόφαλος», για να παρουσιάσουν τα καινοτόμα προϊόντα και τις πρωτοπόρες υπηρεσίες τους προκειμένου να κεντρίσουν το επενδυτικό ενδιαφέρον. Δηλώσεις Συμμετοχής μέχρι 16/4/2018.(περισσότερες πληροφορίες http://www.patrasiq.gr/index.php )