Senior FPGA Engineer — Hybrid Work, Cinema Tech

Dolby; United States; On-site; USD 137,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangement

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Dolby is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to join the Cinema Engineering team in the San Francisco Bay Area. You will design and verify FPGA-based solutions for cinema servers, audio processors, and HDR projection systems, owning IP blocks and subsystem designs.

You will develop verification environments, create timing constraints, and drive timing closure on complex hardware platforms. You will work closely with hardware, software, systems, and product teams in a collaborative, fast-paced

Qualifications

• Strong RTL design principles and FPGA development experience.
• Proficiency with VHDL, Verilog or SystemVerilog.
• Experience with RTL simulation and debugging tools.
• Class-based verification methodologies using SystemVerilog.
• Experience with coverage-driven verification techniques and reusable environments.
• Strong debugging, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with lab equipment and scripting for automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and verify RTL solutions for FPGA IP blocks.
• Develop functional testbenches and measure coverage for robustness.
• Implement designs on FPGA devices and manage timing constraints.
• Bring up hardware platforms and perform system-level validation.
• Participate in design reviews and risk identification.
• Create documentation and guidelines for engineering teams.
• Contribute to simulation, automation, and verification methodologies.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, systems, and product teams.

Skills

RTL design principles

FPGA development

VHDL

Verilog

SystemVerilog

RTL simulation

Questa

ModelSim

SystemVerilog verification

coverage-driven verification

debugging

Scripting (Python/Tcl/sh)

Education

Master’s degree

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Questa

ModelSim

Job description

Dolby is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to join the Cinema Engineering team in the San Francisco Bay Area. You will design and verify FPGA-based solutions for cinema servers, audio processors, and HDR projection systems, owning IP blocks and subsystem designs.

You will develop verification environments, create timing constraints, and drive timing closure on complex hardware platforms. You will work closely with hardware, software, systems, and product teams in a collaborative, fast-paced