Senior FPGA Engineer - Lead FPGA Lifecycle & Innovation

True North Consultants, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship available

Job summary

True North Consultants, Inc. is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer in Austin, TX to drive FPGA architecture, implementation, verification, and hardware validation for embedded computing products. You will collaborate with hardware and software teams to translate system requirements into robust FPGA designs.

Applicants should have 7+ years of FPGA experience, strong VHDL/Verilog, and hands-on with Vivado, RF interfaces, and high-speed serial protocols. Relocation support and U.S.

Qualifications

• Must have Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of FPGA design and development experience.
• Experience interfacing FPGAs with RF converters using LVDS, JESD204B/C, or RFSoC.
• Hands-on experience with AMD/Xilinx Vivado and high-speed FPGA design.
• Strong experience in VHDL and Verilog/SystemVerilog.
• Ownership of the FPGA development lifecycle: architecture, requirements, implementation, simulation, validation.
• Strong understanding of timing constraints and timing closure.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces like DDR4/DDR5, PCIe, multi-gigabit Ethernet, or JESD204B/C.
• Experience implementing and tuning high-speed serial-interface IP.
• Experience supporting FPGA/DSP carrier boards, FMC/RF modules, SBCs, or other complex embedded computing products.
• Vivado Simulator and ILAs experience.
• Hands-on with Intel/ARM interfaces, DDR memory, MPSoC, or RFSoC.
• Ability to review schematics and work with hardware engineers.
• Demonstrated leadership, problem-solving, and ownership of deliverables.
• Experience with TCL, Python, C/C++, and Embedded Linux.
• Flexibility to work across hardware/software boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Own the FPGA development lifecycle from architecture through hardware validation.
• Translate system and customer requirements into robust FPGA architectures.
• Lead implementation and verification across hardware/software teams.
• Collaborate with hardware and software engineers to deliver reliable products.

Skills

FPGA design

VHDL

Verilog

SystemVerilog

RF interfaces

Timing closure

DDR4/DDR5

C/C++

Embedded Linux

Python

TCL scripting

Leadership

Schematic review

Education

Bachelor's in EE/CE

Tools

Vivado

Vivado Simulator

ModelSim

QuestaSim

Altium

Job description

True North Consultants, Inc. is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer in Austin, TX to drive FPGA architecture, implementation, verification, and hardware validation for embedded computing products. You will collaborate with hardware and software teams to translate system requirements into robust FPGA designs.

Applicants should have 7+ years of FPGA experience, strong VHDL/Verilog, and hands-on with Vivado, RF interfaces, and high-speed serial protocols. Relocation support and U.S.