Senior FPGA Engineer - Rail Signaling & Leadership

Talentify; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Rail is seeking an enthusiastic Senior Software Engineer in Pittsburgh, PA to design, develop, verify, and implement complex programmable hardware solutions for rail signaling and safety-critical systems.

The role leads FPGA architecture decisions, mentors junior engineers, and ensures delivery of certifiable FPGA-based products across the full product lifecycle, including verification, manufacturing support, and field issues.

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.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, development, simulation, verification, implementation, and maintenance of complex programmable hardware solutions utilizing FPGA, CPLD, and related technologies.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, systems engineers, software engineers, RAMS, verification, and manufacturing teams to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications, architectures, and programmable hardware designs.
• Develop robust, efficient, and maintainable programmable hardware solutions using VHDL or Verilog following established engineering standards and best practices.
• Create and maintain high-quality technical documentation including architecture specifications, detailed design descriptions, interface definitions, verification plans, and traceability artifacts.
• Develop simulation environments, testbenches, and automated verification frameworks to validate functionality, performance, timing, and safety requirements.
• Perform functional, timing, integration, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), and regression testing to ensure compliance with system and product requirements.
• Conduct design reviews and provide constructive technical feedback to ensure design quality, maintainability, reusability, and compliance with applicable standards.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex programmable hardware and system integration issues identified during development, validation, manufacturing, or field operation.
• Support prototype bring-up, board-level integration, laboratory testing, production release, and manufacturing support activities.
• Lead programmable hardware obsolescence mitigation activities, including component replacement analysis, device migration, redesign, impact assessments, and qualification testing.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes, verification methodologies, reusable IP libraries, automation tools, and engineering best practices.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers while fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Ensure compliance with applicable railway, safety, environmental, reliability, and EMC standards throughout the product lifecycle.
• Evaluate emerging programmable hardware technologies, design tools, and verification methodologies for potential application within Hitachi Rail products and platforms.

Skills

FPGA Development

Verilog/SystemVerilog

VHDL

Testbenches/Verification

Digital Design

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

Intel Quartus

Xilinx Vivado

ModelSim

Questa

Job description

Hitachi Rail is seeking an enthusiastic Senior Software Engineer in Pittsburgh, PA to design, develop, verify, and implement complex programmable hardware solutions for rail signaling and safety-critical systems.

The role leads FPGA architecture decisions, mentors junior engineers, and ensures delivery of certifiable FPGA-based products across the full product lifecycle, including verification, manufacturing support, and field issues.