Senior FPGA Engineer — Lead Hardware & Verification

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Rail STS USA, INC. in Pittsburgh, PA seeks a Senior Software Engineer specializing in FPGA-based hardware design for safety-critical rail signaling systems. You will lead architecture, verification, and integration of complex programmable hardware and mentor junior engineers.

The role emphasizes HDL development, toolchain expertise, and lifecycle support across development, manufacturing, and field validation in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of professional experience in FPGA, programmable hardware, digital design, or embedded hardware development.
• Proven expertise in FPGA and programmable logic development using VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog.
• Strong experience with development and verification tools such as Intel Quartus, AMD/Xilinx Vivado, ModelSim, Questa, or equivalent environments.
• Strong understanding of digital design fundamentals, state machines, timing analysis, clock domain crossing, synchronization techniques, and hardware architecture principles.
• Experience developing simulation environments, verification frameworks, and testbenches for complex digital systems.
• Experience performing functional, timing, integration, and validation testing for programmable hardware solutions.
• Familiarity with hardware debugging and validation tools including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and laboratory test equipment.
• Experience supporting the complete product lifecycle including requirements analysis, design, verification, manufacturing support, field issue resolution, and sustainment engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, development, simulation, verification, implementation, and maintenance of complex programmable hardware solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into hardware designs.
• Develop robust HDL-based solutions following engineering standards and best practices.
• Create and maintain technical documentation including architecture specs and verification plans.
• Develop simulation environments, testbenches, and automated verification frameworks.
• Perform functional, timing, and regression testing to ensure compliance with requirements.
• Lead design reviews and provide critical feedback on quality and maintainability.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive engineering best practices.

Skills

FPGA development

VHDL/Verilog

SystemVerilog

Vivado/Quartus

Digital design

Hardware debugging

Verification practices

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Intel Quartus

Xilinx Vivado

ModelSim/Questa

Job description

Hitachi Rail STS USA, INC. in Pittsburgh, PA seeks a Senior Software Engineer specializing in FPGA-based hardware design for safety-critical rail signaling systems. You will lead architecture, verification, and integration of complex programmable hardware and mentor junior engineers.

The role emphasizes HDL development, toolchain expertise, and lifecycle support across development, manufacturing, and field validation in a fast-paced environment.