Senior FPGA Engineer — Relocation & Visa Sponsorship

Sora Resource Group; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Competitive annual bonus

Job summary

Sora Resource Group in Austin, TX, seeks a Senior FPGA Engineer to lead the FPGA development lifecycle for high-performance embedded computing solutions. You will translate system requirements into FPGA architectures, drive implementation, verification, and hardware validation alongside hardware and software teams.

The role emphasizes ownership, technical leadership, and collaboration across disciplines to deliver reliable, cutting-edge products for defense, aerospace, and industrial

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

• Take technical ownership of FPGA development for advanced embedded computing products.
• Translate system and customer requirements into robust FPGA architectures.
• Lead implementation and verification, and work with hardware and software teams to deliver reliable products.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to meet schedule and performance targets.

Skills

FPGA Design

VHDL

Verilog/SystemVerilog

Xilinx Vivado

RF Interfacing

High-speed Interfaces

Python

C/C++

Embedded Linux

Timing Closure

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Vivado

ModelSim/QuestaSim

ILAs

Job description

Sora Resource Group in Austin, TX, seeks a Senior FPGA Engineer to lead the FPGA development lifecycle for high-performance embedded computing solutions. You will translate system requirements into FPGA architectures, drive implementation, verification, and hardware validation alongside hardware and software teams.

The role emphasizes ownership, technical leadership, and collaboration across disciplines to deliver reliable, cutting-edge products for defense, aerospace, and industrial