Senior FPGA Design Engineer

BTA Design Services; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading electronic design firm is seeking a Senior FPGA Design Engineer in Ottawa, Canada. The role involves translating high-level requirements into specifications, designing RTL logic, and collaborating with verification and hardware teams. Candidates should have over 8 years of experience in FPGA design, particularly with Verilog and SystemVerilog. This position offers an exciting team environment and the chance to work on complex high-speed designs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in FPGA design.
• Experience with high-speed FPGA Design Flow using Verilog and SystemVerilog.
• Experience in a lab environment, troubleshooting up to the system level.

Responsibilities

• Understand high-level requirements and translate them into specifications.
• Design and implement RTL logic, run simulations, and perform timing closure.
• Interface with various engineering teams and provide customer support.

Skills

FPGA design

RTL logic design

Verilog

System Verilog

Xilinx Vivado

Intel Quartus

High-speed design

Scripting

Team collaboration

Tools

Xilinx FPGA

Intel Agilex

Job description

About Us:

Headquartered in Ottawa, BTA Design serves the electronic design community in Canada and beyond, specializing in ASIC and FPGA design and verification, and embedded software development services. We augment and enhance our clients’ teams and accelerate the development of complete designs.

We’re adaptable and efficient, with a brilliant staff at our core. We aim to be the best at what we do.

Our success continues to fuel growth. We are currently searching globally for a number of key technical resources, including a Senior FPGA Design Engineer.

Key Responsibilities

The ASIC/FPGA Designer will work in an exciting team environment and will have the following responsibilities:

• Understand high-level requirements and translate them into detailed specifications.
• Design and implement RTL logic (mainly Verilog or System Verilog), run block-level simulation, FPGA synthesis, backend and timing closure.
• Interface with the verification team, design team, hardware team and support team.
• Perform lab bring-up, product integration and support.
• Provide technical support to customers and lead them through complex technical issues.

Key Qualifications

• A minimum of 8years of relevant experience in the FPGA design field.
• Experience with high-speed FPGA Design Flow using Verilog and SystemVerilog.
• Experience with Xilinx Vivado and recent Xilinx FPGA device families in complex high-speed designs or experience with Intel Quartus and the Intel Agilex device family in complex high-speed designs.
• Experience with complex asynchronous clock boundaries & high-speed serial interfaces.
• Experience in a lab environment, troubleshooting issues up to the system level.
• Experience with industry standard interfaces e.g. Ethernet, SONET, PCIe, SPI, I2C, USB, AMBA, GPIO, SRIO, DDR/SDRAM/DMA, 4G, LTE, 5G, O-RAN, 3GPP.
• Test verification and scripting experience is a plus.
• Track record as a self-starter, a team player and a leader.
• Strong scripting skills.
• Excellent ability to work in a team.
• Software background would be an asset.