Senior FPGA Architect — High-Speed Embedded Expert

Management Performance Associates; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Management Performance Associates in Austin, TX seeks a Senior FPGA Engineer to own the FPGA development lifecycle for advanced embedded computing products. You will translate system and customer requirements into robust FPGA architectures and lead implementation and verification with hardware and software teams.

The role emphasizes collaboration across multidisciplinary teams, timing closure mastery, and hands-on experience with Vivado, VHDL, and RF interfaces.

Qualifications

• Must have a 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, and work with hardware/software teams to deliver reliable products.

Skills

FPGA design

VHDL

Verilog/SystemVerilog

High-speed interfaces

Vivado

RF converters interfacing

Timing closure

Python

C/C++

Embedded Linux

Technical leadership

Review schematics

Debugging

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Vivado

Vivado Simulator

ILAs

ModelSim

QuestaSim

Job description

Management Performance Associates in Austin, TX seeks a Senior FPGA Engineer to own the FPGA development lifecycle for advanced embedded computing products. You will translate system and customer requirements into robust FPGA architectures and lead implementation and verification with hardware and software teams.

The role emphasizes collaboration across multidisciplinary teams, timing closure mastery, and hands-on experience with Vivado, VHDL, and RF interfaces.