Senior FPGA Engineer – D2D Satellite & RF Systems

Amazon Inc.; Redmond; On-site; AUD 215,000 - 291,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Leo is an initiative to extend broadband access via satellites. As an FPGA engineer for D2D, you will collaborate with systems architects, hardware and FW/SW teams to bring up complex FPGA-based systems and RF subsystems for next-gen antennas.

You will lead real-time embedded designs and develop calibration and testing tools used on orbit. The role requires extensive FPGA experience (SystemVerilog, Xilinx/AMD) and hands-on with Linux, CI/CD, and FPGA verification.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience.
• Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure.
• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
• Experience with modern ASIC/FPGA design and verification tools
• Experience in writing test scripts (Python preferred) to validate FPGA images in HW.
• 5+ years experience in FPGA design and Implementation using System Verilog.
• Experience with Xilinx/AMD (or Altera) FPGAs.
• Experience with uArchitecture, RTL coding, FPGA optimization for timing & power, simulation, and validation

Responsibilities

• Have ownership of one or more FPGA bitstreams
• Collaborate with network communication system architects to define and design/implement/test/release/support networking functions targeted to FPGA technology
• Collaborate with RF and Digital Communications engineers to implement digital logic functions in FPGAs
• Drive trade-off analysis to benefit the Customer experience

Skills

C++

C#

Java

Python

Golang

PowerShell

Ruby

Linux/Unix

CI/CD

FPGA design

SystemVerilog

Xilinx FPGAs

RTL coding

timing/power optimization

Education

Master's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Xilinx FPGAs

Altera/Intel FPGAs

SystemVerilog tools

Python (test scripts)

Linux

Job description

Amazon Leo is an initiative to extend broadband access via satellites. As an FPGA engineer for D2D, you will collaborate with systems architects, hardware and FW/SW teams to bring up complex FPGA-based systems and RF subsystems for next-gen antennas.

You will lead real-time embedded designs and develop calibration and testing tools used on orbit. The role requires extensive FPGA experience (SystemVerilog, Xilinx/AMD) and hands-on with Linux, CI/CD, and FPGA verification.