Senior FPGA Design Engineer

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an experienced FPGA Design Engineer to join the FPGA Core team. You will own FPGA designs from concept to production, collaborating with hardware, software, and mechanical teams to deliver safe and effective robotic systems.

The role emphasizes developing modular FPGA content, validating designs, and evaluating new technologies and tools to maintain a world-class design platform for surgical robotics.

Responsibilities

• Work closely on a daily basis with other FPGA team members to build and maintain a world-class FPGA design platform.
• Deliver high-quality FPGA designs that are critical to the safety and effectiveness of robotics systems.
• Own entire FPGA designs from concept to production.
• Develop modular FPGA content for highly shared applications.
• Evaluate and implement new technologies, tools, and processes in FPGA design.
• Provide input on architectural decisions ranging from FPGA designs to electrical system architecture implementations.
• Develop FPGA specification and test protocol documentation from system-level requirements.
• Collaborate with the FPGA Verification team to ensure adequate simulation coverage.
• Work with cross-functional teams – Hardware, Software, Mechanical, Manufacturing – for system integration.
• Design and perform robotic in-system verification and validation procedures to meet specifications.

Skills

FPGA design

Job description

Job Description

Primary Function of Position:

We are seeking a talented FPGA Design Engineer to join our FPGA design team. The successful candidate will work with a group of dedicated engineers focused on developing the world’s leading surgical robotics systems. As a member of the FPGA Core team, the individual in this position will play a key role in FPGA design - developing and integrating FPGA designs for communications, embedded processing, sensor interfacing and motor control.

Roles & Responsibilities:

In this role you will:

• Work closely on a daily basis with other FPGA team members to build and maintain a world-class FPGA design platform.
• Be provided with the challenge for delivering the highest quality FPGA designs that are critical to the safety and effectiveness of our robotics systems.
• Own entire FPGA designs from concept to production.
• Develop modular FPGA content for highly shared applications.
• Continually be exposed to, evaluate, and implement new technologies, tools, and processes.
• Provide your input on architectural decisions ranging from FPGA designs to electrical system architecture implementation.
• Understand system-level requirements to develop FPGA specification and test protocol documentation.
• Collaborate with our FPGA Verification team to identify and implement essential FPGA functional simulation coverage.
• Have the opportunity to learn from and work with many cross-functional teams – Hardware, Software, Mechanical, Manufacturing – to ensure correct implementation of FPGA designs from concept to system integration.
• Design, implement, and perform critical robotic in-system verification and validation procedures for your FPGA designs to ensure that the overall product meets required specifications.