Senior FPGA & Digital Systems Architect

Randstad USA; Cypress (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

Randstad USA in Cypress, CA is seeking an FPGA Digital Design Engineer for a high growth defense contractor in the Cypress area. Location is Cypress, California. This is a contract role paying 80–110 USD per hour, with standard hours 9am to 5pm.

A Bachelor's degree is required. The engineer will lead FPGA and digital hardware design, system simulation, timing closure, verification, and hardware integration, while guiding cross-functional teams and mentoring others.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of FPGA/digital hardware development and systems engineering.
• Deep expertise in FPGA development toolchains and HDL (VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog).

Responsibilities

• Lead FPGA design, system simulation, constraint-driven synthesis, place and route, resource and power utilization analysis, static timing analysis, and timing closure.
• Contribute to architecture, design, fabrication, and testing of hardware platforms integrating digital and optical subsystems.
• Direct cross-functional engineering teams through complex technical workstreams and mentor engineers.
• Drive full lifecycle development-design, analysis, modeling, documentation, prototyping, and test support.

Skills

FPGA development

HDL (VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog)

Timing closure

Hardware verification

Leadership

System engineering

Synthesis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field

Tools

FPGA design toolchains

EDA toolchains

Job description

Randstad USA in Cypress, CA is seeking an FPGA Digital Design Engineer for a high growth defense contractor in the Cypress area. Location is Cypress, California. This is a contract role paying 80–110 USD per hour, with standard hours 9am to 5pm.

A Bachelor's degree is required. The engineer will lead FPGA and digital hardware design, system simulation, timing closure, verification, and hardware integration, while guiding cross-functional teams and mentoring others.