Senior FPGA Designer – Onsite with Relocation

Sandia National Laboratories; New Mexico; On-site; USD 118,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Affordable housing

Minimal traffic congestion

Excellent medical benefits

Job summary

Sandia National Laboratories seeks a Senior/Principal FPGA Designer to design, verify and optimize high-performance FPGA implementations for RF and EW systems. You will work with hardware, software and systems engineers in a multi-disciplinary team to deliver robust, space-ready solutions onsite in New Mexico.

The role requires HDL fluency (Verilog/VHDL), strong firmware awareness, and extensive FPGA experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent required.
• 5+ years directly relevant FPGA design experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance and SCI clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, simulate and implement synthesizable RTL for high performance FPGAs.
• Develop and modify FPGA designs and verify with testbenches.
• Collaborate with hardware, software and systems engineers to integrate new FPGA designs.
• Interact with customers and stakeholders to translate requirements into FPGA solutions.
• Travel to engage partners as needed.
• Maintain and support FPGA designs throughout the product lifecycle.

Skills

FPGA design

Verilog/VHDL

Embedded systems

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

DOE Q clearance eligibility

Tools

Microsemi Libero

Xilinx Vivado

Job description

Sandia National Laboratories seeks a Senior/Principal FPGA Designer to design, verify and optimize high-performance FPGA implementations for RF and EW systems. You will work with hardware, software and systems engineers in a multi-disciplinary team to deliver robust, space-ready solutions onsite in New Mexico.

The role requires HDL fluency (Verilog/VHDL), strong firmware awareness, and extensive FPGA experience.