Senior FPGA Engineer — Lead High-Speed Embedded FPGA

The Recruiting Hive; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

The Recruiting Hive in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to own the FPGA development lifecycle for advanced embedded computing products. You will translate system requirements into robust FPGA architectures and drive implementation, simulation, and hardware verification with hardware and software teams.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years of FPGA design experience, strong VHDL/Verilog, and hands-on AMS Vivado.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a 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.
• Demonstrated ownership of the FPGA development lifecycle, including architecture, requirements definition, implementation, simulation, and hardware verification.
• Strong understanding of timing constraints and timing closure.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces such as 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 converter modules, single-board computers, or other complex embedded computing products.
• Experience with Vivado Simulator and ILAs;
• Hands-on experience in at least one or more of the following areas: Intel/ARM processor interfaces, DDR memory, MPSoC, or RFSoC.
• Ability to review schematics and work closely with hardware design engineers.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, independent problem-solving, and ownership of engineering deliverables.
• Experience with TCL, Python, C/C++, and Embedded Linux.
• Flexibility to work across hardware and software boundaries and contribute to multidisciplinary engineering challenges.

Responsibilities

• Own the FPGA development lifecycle from architecture and requirements definition through implementation, simulation, verification, and hardware validation.
• Translate system and customer requirements into robust FPGA architectures.
• Lead implementation and verification and work closely with hardware and software teams to deliver reliable products.
• Collaborate with hardware and software engineers to solve complex engineering challenges.
• Focus on new product development while supporting existing products.

Skills

FPGA design

VHDL

Verilog/SystemVerilog

RF interface design

Timing closure

High-speed I/O

Python

C/C++

Embedded Linux

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

Vivado

ModelSim/QuestaSim

ARM/JTAG tools

DDR/Signal integrity tools

Job description

The Recruiting Hive in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to own the FPGA development lifecycle for advanced embedded computing products. You will translate system requirements into robust FPGA architectures and drive implementation, simulation, and hardware verification with hardware and software teams.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years of FPGA design experience, strong VHDL/Verilog, and hands-on AMS Vivado.