FPGA Design and Verification Engineer

Introduction of the job

As an FPGA Design and Verification Engineer, you will specify, design, develop, realize, integrate, and test modules and tools in a multi-disciplined team, collaborating closely with cross-functional partners and suppliers. You will deliver within system specifications, cost targets, and project schedules, ensuring timely realization of solutions that contribute to competitive, achievable, and serviceable products. The FPGA Firmware Engineer provides discipline specific expertise throughout the entire product life cycle. This Includes concept feasibility, new product introduction, existing product sustainment and customer facing problem resolution. The position requires highly motivated, extremely organized, and self-driven individuals.

The FPGA Design and Verification Engineer will be responsible for definition, design, verification, and documentation for Field Programmable Gate Arrays. They will provide RTL design, simulation, physical implementation and verification of complex FPGA modules comprising a mix of custom RTL with hard and soft vendor IP cores within a larger architecture.

Role and responsibilities

In this role, you will contribute to engineering deliverables that scale with job grade, from executing defined tasks and supporting senior engineers to owning complex technical scope, coordinating cross-functional work, and leading program-level outcomes.

• •Identify, analyze, document, and manage requirements with traceability, and coordinate verification criteria to confirm deliverables meet intent.
• •Conduct research and feasibility studies, document findings, and translate results into recommendations, tradeoffs, and decision inputs.
• •Develop engineering concepts and solutions, make technical choices, and resolve issues to meet functionality, performance, cost, and compliance needs.
• •Define and communicate specifications and high-level designs, align interfaces, and support reviews and approvals to enable quality execution.
• •Support system or product integration by coordinating dependencies, applying configuration management, and enabling smooth project execution.
• •Define and execute validation and test approaches, improve methods and procedures, and ensure qualification evidence supports release readiness.
• •Estimate effort, plan and track work, manage risks and dependencies, and deliver assigned work packages or projects to agreed quality and timelines.
• •Maintain accurate technical documentation, share knowledge through coaching and mentoring as applicable, and follow EHS policies while identifying and mitigating safety risks.

Education & experience

• •Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering required.
• •Masters Degree or PhD preferred.
• •Minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience required.

Design:

• •Determine architecture and detailed system design approach for the FPGA
• •Define module interfaces and all aspects of device design coordinated with the Printed Circuit Board Designers
• •Evaluate the process flow including but not limited to high level design, synthesis, place and route, timing constraints and power utilization
• •Support the generation of technical engineering products by using the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the FPGA development life cycle
• •Independently determine approach to solutions and get alignment from System Engineers and Printed Circuit Board developers
• •Contribute to design and development of FPGA hardware for control, communications systems and digital signal processing (DSP) platforms.
• •Technical Writing: Define and Document Specifications and Design Decisions

Test, Verification & Integration:

• •Develop and Implement the Product Validation and Verification (V&V) Strategy for FPGA
• •Determine system verification approach for the FPGA, ensuring proper test coverage
• •Develop, implement and supervise design verification test plans at system level.
• •Design, Develop and Build Product Specific Test Tooling
• •Includes: Simulation, Emulation, and Hardware Test Tools.
• •Test Validation and Verification (V&V) of Product Requirements
• •Plan and Execute Component Level Testing & Sub-module Integration
• •Plan and Execute Module Level and System Level Integration
• •Bridge the gap between Electrical Systems and System Software

Technical Writing: Define and Document Test Procedures, and Test Reports

Skills

Technical & functional skills

• •Requirements, Interfaces & Technical Specification Management: Ability to identify, analyze, document, and manage requirements with traceability, translate them into clear specifications, and align interfaces so engineering deliverables meet intent and enable reliable downstream design, integration, and verification
• •Engineering Solution Development (Electrical): Ability to develop engineering concepts and solutions, make sound technical tradeoffs, resolve issues, and realize designs that meet functionality, performance, cost, compliance, and schedule constraints within system/module specifications.
• •Preferred Skills in Embedded Logic and Firmware Design and Verification includes:
• •Highly proficient use and understanding of FPGA engineering concepts, principles, and theories
• •Highly proficient in FPGA design languages and tools including VHDL and UVM or OSVVM (Altera High Level Synthesis is preferred)
• •Experience with FPGA development software - (Modelsim, Quartus, Mentor CDC is preferred)
• •Highly proficient in Microsoft Office applications
• •Experience with FPGA SoC, including Avalon and AXI architectures
• •Experience with architecting and implementing embedded processors including NIOS
• •Proficient in implementing IP blocks based on interface requirements and designing the required interface logic to overall FPGA architecture
• •Expertise using VHDL for implementation and verification of FPGA designs
• •Basic knowledge of signal algorithms

• •Preferred knowledge and experience using design software and technical tools includes:
• •VHDL, System Verilog, UVM
• •Questa Sim, Modelsim, Quartus
• •GIT, JIRA
• •MATLAB and SimuLink
• •Electronic Laboratory Equipment
• •LabVIEW
• •Python

Integration, Verification & Validation (V&V) Execution: Ability to plan and execute verification and validation, ensure qualification evidence supports release readiness, and support system/product integration by coordinating dependencies and applying disciplined configuration/traceability to deliver working, testable solutions.

Behavioral & leadership skills

• •Drives Results: The ability to translate strategic and technical goals into clear priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes, delivering committed results on time and with the right quality by taking ownership, managing trade-offs, removing obstacles, and sustaining momentum across stakeholders and dependencies.
• •Demonstrates Self-awareness: The ability to understand and manage one’s own strengths, limitations, emotions, and impact on others; to actively seek and use feedback; and to adapt behaviors and decisions to improve collaboration, leadership effectiveness, and results, especially in high-pressure, ambiguous, or complex environments.
• •Values Differences: The ability to intentionally seek, respect, and integrate diverse perspectives and working styles to strengthen collaboration and decision quality, ensuring all voices are heard and treated equitably, and enabling inclusive execution across cross-functional and multicultural stakeholders.
• •Builds Effective Teams: Helps align and enable the team dynamic by clarifying shared goals, roles, dependencies, and ways of working. Fosters trust and inclusion by promoting open dialogue, healthy conflict resolution, inclusion, and mutual accountability. Coaches colleagues to strengthen individual and team capability.
• •Drives Vision and Purpose: Translates broader direction into clear priorities and practical next steps for a team or technical scope. Builds alignment on goals and trade-offs, communicates co