FPGA Design Engineer

Entangled Future; Delft; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Qblox in Delft, Netherlands is seeking an FPGA Design Engineer to join our FPGA/RTL team. You will design and verify VHDL solutions for a cutting-edge quantum control stack, collaborating with electrical and software engineers in a dynamic R&D environment.

The role requires 5+ years of FPGA experience, strong VHDL skills, and familiarity with Xilinx Vivado or Intel Quartus. You will contribute to architecture decisions and develop robust testbenches in a collaborative setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a similar FPGA/R&D role.
• Ability to understand and evaluate requirements and design using VHDL.
• Write self-checking testbenches at module level and expand toplevel UVM testbenches.

Responsibilities

• Understand/evaluate requirements, help design solutions and implement them in VHDL
• Read internal and vendor documentation related to FPGA, third party ASICs or software
• Write self-checking testbenches at the module level and expand toplevel UVM testbenches
• Propose changes to architecture and team processes
• Collaborate with a diverse team of FPGA and embedded software engineers
• Be proactive with ideas and new developments from the ASIC/FPGA field
• Be a sparring partner to a team of FPGA and embedded engineers
• Maintain and improve design quality and documentation

Skills

FPGA design

VHDL

SystemVerilog

Verilog

Communication

Tools

Xilinx Vivado

Intel Quartus

Job description

FPGA Design Engineer at Qblox, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. A mid-level full time position in the FPGA Design team, listed under research.

Join us at Qblox as we revolutionize the landscape of quantum computing! Our technology is used around the globe by world-class research teams.

We are seeking passionate FPGA/RTL Design Engineers to help us build a cutting-edge control stack for industrial scale quantum computers.

The stack Qblox develops is a distributed architecture that allows parallel qubit readout, control, intercommunication and other functions, ultimately interacting with the physical qubits using high frequency analog signals. Imagine what it takes to talk to 1000 qubits, with nanosecond-level synchronization and all-to-all connectivity and will understand the design and verification challenges that we face.

We foster a culture of collaboration where every voice is heard and valued. You will have the opportunity to take ownership of your projects, influence technical decisions at higher levels and gain a broad understanding of what goes into our products. You will likely be working in cross-functional teams including electrical engineers, digital design engineers, application engineers and scientists and also have a chance to learn about the Quantum field from our in-house experts.

Enough about us, what about you?

Responsibilities

• Understand/evaluate requirements, help design solutions and implement them in VHDL
• Comfortable reading internal and vendor (FPGA, third party ASICs/software) documentation
• Write self-checking testbenches at the module level and occasionally help expand toplevel UVM testbenches
• You will have the opportunity to propose changes to architecture and team processes
• Be a sparring partner to a diverse team of FPGA and embedded software engineers
• We’re constantly trying to find better ways of doing things - be pro-active with proposing your ideas or relevant new developments from the ASIC/FPGA field
• A driven FPGA Design engineer that has been working in a similar role and R&D environment for 5+ years.
• Good communication
• Working knowledge of either Xilinx Vivado or Intel FPGA Quartus
• Module-level verification

Nice to Have

• Xilinx Zynq-7000 / Ultrascale+/ RFSoC
• (System)Verilog
• Verification frameworks (preferably UVM, but also OVM, OSVVM, Cocotb, etc)
• Timing closure methods
• Linux kernel module development
• Microarchitecture design
• Experience in the Quantum field