Senior FPGA Engineer — Embedded SoC Innovator (Hybrid)

Vanteon Corp; City of Rochester (NY); On-site; USD 105,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401(k) match

Parental leave

Life Insurance

EAP

On-site gym

PTO

Job summary

Vanteon in Rochester, NY seeks a Senior FPGA Engineer to own FPGA/SoC designs across hardware, firmware, and software disciplines. You will lead architecture discussions, develop synthesizable VHDL/Verilog, and drive timing closure while mentoring junior engineers.

Role involves hands-on development, design reviews, and cross‑functional collaboration to deliver reliable embedded systems. Candidates should have 5+ years FPGA experience and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of professional FPGA development experience with end-to-end delivery including simulation, implementation, and hardware verification.
• Proficiency in VHDL and/or Verilog and a strong understanding of synthesizable design practices.
• Experience with AMD/Xilinx Vivado or comparable FPGA development tools.
• Working knowledge of timing constraints, timing closure, clock-domain crossings, reset strategies, and resource optimization.
• Experience developing FPGA interfaces to processors, memory, peripherals, or other hardware.
• Experience with FPGA configuration, board bring-up, and debugging using simulation tools, embedded logic analyzers, and laboratory equipment.
• Ability to independently complete assigned development work while collaborating effectively across engineering disciplines.
• Strong analytical, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to meet the onsite ramp-up and controlled-data access requirements described below.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and verify FPGA logic for embedded systems, including control functions, data interfaces, and real-time processing.
• Translate system requirements into detailed designs, interface definitions, and verification plans.
• Develop synthesizable VHDL and/or Verilog and reusable FPGA components.
• Perform synthesis and implementation, develop timing constraints, and resolve timing and resource utilization issues.
• Create simulation environments and test benches to verify functionality before hardware integration.
• Perform FPGA configuration, hardware bring-up, debugging, and integration with embedded processors, firmware, and electronic subsystems.
• Collaborate with RF, hardware, DSP, and embedded software engineers to resolve integration challenges.
• Participate in architecture discussions and design reviews, explaining technical approaches and tradeoffs.
• Maintain technical documentation, including design descriptions, interface specifications, and verification results.
• Provide estimates and communicate progress, technical risks, and issues affecting assigned work.
• Support junior engineers and co‑op students through design guidance, reviews, and troubleshooting.

Skills

VHDL

Verilog

FPGA development

Timing analysis

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Vivado

Questa/ModelSim

Intel Quartus

Job description

Vanteon in Rochester, NY seeks a Senior FPGA Engineer to own FPGA/SoC designs across hardware, firmware, and software disciplines. You will lead architecture discussions, develop synthesizable VHDL/Verilog, and drive timing closure while mentoring junior engineers.

Role involves hands-on development, design reviews, and cross‑functional collaboration to deliver reliable embedded systems. Candidates should have 5+ years FPGA experience and strong communication skills.