Staff FPGA Engineer

Job Summary

An immediate opportunity is available for a Staff FPGA Engineer to join a growing Digital Design Engineering team. This role will collaborate with multiple technical teams to design and bring advanced products into production.

The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated FPGA/RTL Engineer with broad knowledge of FPGA design and best practices, including detailed design, SystemVerilog coding, modeling, simulation, verification, integration, and testing.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Derive FPGA requirements based on system requirements and create FPGA architecture to fulfill those requirements.
• Design, implement, and test Register-Transfer Level (RTL) features and components guided by system architecture and requirements.
• Own the detailed design of assigned firmware components and subsystem functionality.
• Document test and implementation plans at the unit and system levels and execute against those plans.
• Work with cross-functional engineering teams to integrate developed features into system hardware.
• Support the bring-up of RTL features developed by the team.
• Coach and mentor junior members of RTL and integration teams to complete assigned tasks.
• Participate in the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including peer reviews of requirements, architecture, design, and code implementations within an approved ASPICE development flow.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of SystemVerilog, Verilog, and Python programming languages.
• Proficiency in FPGA design methodologies, from state-machine design through DSP implementation.
• Experience closing timing in FPGA designs.
• Experience mapping algorithms to FPGA-appropriate logic implementations.
• Expert-level experience integrating and bringing up features in hardware.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving and complex environment.
• Self-directed and independently driven to complete project tasks.
• Experience with configuration management and change-control concepts and tools such as Git, Subversion, Jira, or similar.
• Experience working with functional requirements and defining requirement-based tests.
• Experience performing HDL synthesis and simulation using tools such as VCS, Synplicity, or similar.
• Experience with design analyses including timing, lint, clock-domain crossings, code coverage, and IP compliance strategies.
• Experience designing portable and scalable test benches.
• Experience with UVM/OVM and constrained-random testing.
• Familiarity with hierarchical simulation and verification frameworks.
• Experience with intersystem communication protocols such as I2C, UART, and SPI.
• Familiarity with microcontroller peripherals, including one or more of the following: ADCs, DACs, Flash, EEPROM, timers, and watchdogs.
• Working knowledge of data structures and algorithm fundamentals.
• Working knowledge of digital and analog electronics.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of control systems and digital signal-processing fundamentals.
• Proficiency with embedded software systems developed in C/C++ or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience with High-Level Synthesis (HLS).
• Excellent scripting and automation skills; experience with Bash, Python, Make/CMake, and TCL is desired.
• Extensive project experience working on embedded laser applications, including LiDAR.
• Experience in safety-critical industries, including familiarity with FIT analysis.
• Working knowledge of computing architectures beyond FPGAs, such as DSPs, GPUs, or MCUs, and their associated hardware computing platforms.
• Experience with ASIC design and migration from FPGA prototypes to production ASICs.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field and 7+ years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.