R&D Engineer: FPGA/HDL & Wireless (Hybrid)

KB Search Team, LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

KB Search Team, LLC is seeking a full-time R&D Engineer to join the R&D Engineering team. The role involves design, simulation, prototyping, and testing of wireless communication and sensing projects, with a hybrid schedule requiring three onsite days weekly (Mon, Wed, Thu).

The successful candidate will work on HDL testbenches, FPGA design, and verification, using Xilinx FPGAs and Vivado, with Python or TCL scripting to automate tests and collect code coverage data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 4 years FPGA design/testing experience OR 2 years with MS.
• Proven experience with multiple clock-domain, high-utilization FPGA designs.
• Experience with Xilinx FPGAs, SoCs, and the Vivado IDE.
• Experience with TCL or Python.

Responsibilities

• Architect testbenches for full-system HDL simulations.
• Maintain and improve existing HDL testing infrastructure.
• Automate certain testing using scripts.
• Collect, maintain, and use code coverage data from test suites.
• Design and code HDL blocks.
• Hardware verification and troubleshooting; familiarity with logic analyzers.

Skills

FPGA design

HDL design & verification

Python scripting

TCL scripting

Clock-domain design

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

MS degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Xilinx Vivado IDE

Xilinx FPGAs

Job description

KB Search Team, LLC is seeking a full-time R&D Engineer to join the R&D Engineering team. The role involves design, simulation, prototyping, and testing of wireless communication and sensing projects, with a hybrid schedule requiring three onsite days weekly (Mon, Wed, Thu).

The successful candidate will work on HDL testbenches, FPGA design, and verification, using Xilinx FPGAs and Vivado, with Python or TCL scripting to automate tests and collect code coverage data.