Digital Design Engineer

Gilder Search Group; Lexington (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Gilder Search Group in Massachusetts seeks an experienced FPGA/SoC hardware engineer for an on-site assignment. The position requires strong HDL skills, RTL design and verification for SoC FPGA architectures, and hands-on lab testing with oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.

Candidates should hold a relevant advanced degree and be prepared to collaborate with local and remote teams, discuss technical results, and contribute to CI tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or related field.
• Experience with hardware description languages (VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog).
• Experience designing and testing programmable logic for SoC FPGA architectures with integrated software processing.

Skills

HDL languages

SoC FPGA RTL design

RTL verification

Lab bench testing

SERDES interfaces

Signal processing in FPGA

Communication & teamwork

Python programming

Education

Bachelor/Master/PhD in EE/CS/Math/Physics

Tools

Modelsim/Questa/Cocotb

Xilinx RFSoC devices

Job description

Interim clearance is sufficient for the start of this assignment

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or related scientific/engineering field
• Strong knowledge of hardware description languages including VHDL, Verilog, and/or System Verilog
• Experience designing and testing programmable logic designs targeting System on Chip (SoC) FPGA architectures that required integration of the programmable logic with on-chip software processing
• Experience with unit-level and FPGA chip level verification of RTL
• Experience with laboratory benchtop testing of FPGA designs including the use of integrated logic analyzers (e.g. ChipScope) and/or laboratory equipment such as stand-alone logic analyzers or digital oscilloscopes
• Experience designing, testing, and debugging high-speed I/O interfaces and protocols utilizing an FPGA’s built-in SERDES
• Experiencing developing, designing, and programmable logic for signal processing applications
• Strong verbal and written communications skills including collaborating with other on-site and/or remote technical team members, preparing and sharing technical results with others, and documenting work to aid other team members and activities

Desired Skills:

• Experience developing and testing with Xilinx-based RFSoC devices
• Experience using Modelsim/Questa/CocoTB toolchain for RTL simulation
• Familiarity with continuous integration (CI) pipelines for joint FPGA and embedded software development
• Familiarity with Ethernet, Infiniband, and/or PCIe protocols, testing, tools, and debugging
• Familiarity with RDMA and RoCE protocols
• Experience programming in Python

Work Location:

• Candidate should expect to be onsite 5 days/week due to the nature of the work. Candidates expected to be local at the start of the assignment.

Clearance:

• Interim clearance is sufficient for the start of this assignment, however ACTIVE SECRET is HIGHLY preferred.