AI FPGA Prototyping & Emulation Engineer

CommonAI CIC; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with pension

Professional development

Networking with tech & academia

Office near Cambridge station

Job summary

CommonAI CIC is seeking engineers to evaluate proposed AI hardware by turning RTL designs into working FPGA prototypes and emulation experiments. You will adapt RTL, integrate it with FPGA prototypes, and establish repeatable build and testing workflows in collaboration with software and simulation teams.

The role focuses on RTL prototyping, FPGA emulation, and integrating design observations with simulator models.

Qualifications

• Hands-on RTL to FPGA prototyping or emulation with debugging.
• Strong digital-design skills in Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL or equivalent HDL with timing/verification judgement.
• Experience with FPGA/emulation toolchains and scripting to make builds repeatable.
• Ability to collaborate across hardware and software boundaries and explain conclusions and limitations of a prototype experiment.
• Experience using AI coding agents to validate HDL, scripts and software.

Responsibilities

• Adapt and integrate RTL for FPGA prototyping or emulation, documenting changes for the prototype.
• Develop and maintain synthesis, implementation, timing-closure and reproducible build flows for the chosen platform.
• Bring up and debug designs, develop tests and instrumentation for repeatable experiments.
• Develop or integrate control, stimulus and data-capture facilities for agreed experiments with software colleagues on host interfaces.
• Relate observations from emulation to the model being evaluated and explain frequency/overheads limitations.

Skills

RTL prototyping

FPGA debugging

HDL design

Cross-domain collaboration

AI coding agents

Tools

FPGA toolchain

Build scripting

Job description

CommonAI CIC is seeking engineers to evaluate proposed AI hardware by turning RTL designs into working FPGA prototypes and emulation experiments. You will adapt RTL, integrate it with FPGA prototypes, and establish repeatable build and testing workflows in collaboration with software and simulation teams.

The role focuses on RTL prototyping, FPGA emulation, and integrating design observations with simulator models.