Digital Design Engineer

SGS Consulting; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SGS Consulting seeks an experienced FPGA/HDL engineer to plan, design, and implement complex hardware solutions for lab and field use. You will translate specifications into runnable designs and verify them through simulation and testing.

The role emphasizes high-speed, low-power HDL implementations for PLDs, FPGAs, or ASICs, plus hands-on coding, debugging, and model-based verification in a UNIX environment.

Qualifications

• Greater than 7 years of experience in FPGA/VHDL development and HDL design.
• Proficient in UNIX-based environments and scripting.
• Experience with Xilinx Vivado, Modelsim/Questa, lab/test equipment, network test equipment, and source/revision control tools.

Responsibilities

• Plans and executes engineering research and design for new and existing products.
• Performs HDL analysis for high-speed and low-power designs.
• Participates in simulation, verification, and integration tasks.
• Translates specifications into hardware designs for lab or field use.
• Develops models, simulates, verifies designs, fabricates prototypes.
• Maintains accurate design files.
• Requires experience in electrical engineering and hardware demonstrations.
• HDL design for PLDs/FPGA/ASICs including high-speed implementations.
• Hands-on code design, simulation, and testing.

Skills

DDR4 memory

HDL design

Xilinx Ultrascale+

Versal FPGA

SystemVerilog

SystemC

MATLAB

UNIX scripting

Xilinx Vivado

ModelSim/Questa

Lab equipment

Debugging hardware

Communication skills

Tools

Terrestrial network standards

DSP processing techniques

Design and debug boards

Job description

Job Responsibilities

Plans, performs, and executes engineering research and design development for both new products and existing products.

Performs design/HDL analysis, including high speed and low power designs.

Participates in simulation, verification, and integration tasks.

Takes algorithmic or functional specifications and coverts that to a design that can be implemented for use in a lab or field environment.

Develop models, simulate and verify designs, fabricate prototypes, and test hardware solutions.

Creates and maintains accurate and detailed design files.

Candidate should possess experience in electrical engineering and a track record of demonstrating designs on hardware.

Digital HDL design experience is required, including complex, high-speed HDL based implementations of algorithms targeting programmable logic devices (PLDs, FPGA, ASIC, etc.), microprocessors, DSP and/or ARM processors.

Hands-on experience with code design, simulation and testing is required.

Skills

Experience with DDR4 memory, terrestrial network standards, DSP processing techniques, and design and debug of complex circuit boards

Knowledge of MATLAB, Perl, TCL, System C, System Verilog

Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills

In-depth knowledge of Xilinx Ultrascale+ and Versal FPGAs.

Education/Experience

Greater than 7 years of experience with team based VHDL development processes for FPGA based designs is required, including VHDL code development, simulation, verification, synthesis, high-speed timing closure and hardware-based acceleration

Must be able to function proficiently in an exclusively UNIX based environment.

In depth familiarity of UNIX based scripting, Xilinx Vivado, Modelsim/Questa, laboratory test equipment, network test equipment, and source/revision control tools.

Experience developing implementation architectures from requirements documents or high-level specifications.

Experience using and maintaining legacy IP and UNIX build environments. Requires the ability to troubleshoot designs operating within an integrated system.