Senior FPGA Architect — Austin (Relocation Available)

Professional Recruiting Consultants, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Professional Recruiting Consultants, Inc. seeks a Senior FPGA Engineer in Austin, TX to own FPGA development for high-performance embedded computing products.

You will translate system requirements into robust FPGA architectures and lead implementation, verification, and cross-team collaboration to deliver reliable, high-speed designs. The role emphasizes timing closure, interfacing with RF converters, and multi-disciplinary teamwork across hardware and software to advance new products while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of FPGA design and development experience.
• Experience interfacing FPGAs with RF converters using LVDS, JESD204B/C, or RFSoC.
• Hands-on experience with AMD/Xilinx Vivado and high-speed FPGA design.
• Strong experience in VHDL and Verilog/SystemVerilog.
• Demonstrated ownership of the FPGA development lifecycle, including architecture, requirements definition, implementation, simulation, and hardware verification.
• Strong understanding of timing constraints and timing closure.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces such as DDR4/DDR5, PCIe, multi-gigabit Ethernet, or JESD204B/C.
• Experience implementing and tuning high-speed serial-interface IP.
• Experience supporting FPGA/DSP carrier boards, FMC/RF converter modules, single-board computers, or other complex embedded computing products.
• Experience with Vivado Simulator and ILAs;
• Hands-on experience in at least one or more of the following areas: Intel/ARM processor interfaces, DDR memory, MPSoC, or RFSoC.
• Ability to review schematics and work closely with hardware design engineers.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, independent problem-solving, and ownership of engineering deliverables.
• Experience with TCL, Python, C/C++, and Embedded Linux.
• Flexibility to work across hardware and software boundaries and contribute to multidisciplinary engineering challenges.

Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of FPGA development for advanced embedded computing products.
• Translate system and customer requirements into robust FPGA architectures, lead implementation and verification.
• Collaborate with hardware and software teams to deliver reliable products.
• Lead architecture reviews, define verification plans, and drive timing closure.

Skills

FPGA design

VHDL

Verilog/SystemVerilog

High-speed interfaces

LVDS/JESD204B/C

Timing closure

AMD/Xilinx Vivado

IP development

Hardware verification

TCL / Python / C / Embedded Linux

Debugging hardware

FMC interfaces

Leadership / ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Tools

Vivado

Vivado Simulator

ILAs

ModelSim/QuestaSim

Job description

Professional Recruiting Consultants, Inc. seeks a Senior FPGA Engineer in Austin, TX to own FPGA development for high-performance embedded computing products.

You will translate system requirements into robust FPGA architectures and lead implementation, verification, and cross-team collaboration to deliver reliable, high-speed designs. The role emphasizes timing closure, interfacing with RF converters, and multi-disciplinary teamwork across hardware and software to advance new products while