Senior FPGA Prototyping Platform Engineer

Nvidia Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 310,500; Full time

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Job summary

Nvidia Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Senior FPGA Prototyping Platform Engineer to build and support FPGA prototypes for next-generation GPUs and SOCs. Candidates should possess a BS in Electrical Engineering and have 7+ years of experience in FPGA prototyping.

The role involves hands-on lab work, collaboration with various teams, and addressing customer issues. An understanding of backend flows and FPGA debug tools is essential. Competitive salary rates are established based on experience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in FPGA prototyping or 5+ years with a Master's degree.
• Good understanding of FPGA prototyping hardware architecture and tools.
• Hands-on experience with FPGA lab tasks and managing lab technicians.

Responsibilities

• Build FPGA prototypes, analyze timing, and generate bitstreams.
• Hands-on debug with HW and SW on FPGA platforms.
• Release prototypes to customers and provide support.

Skills

FPGA prototyping

Electrical Engineering

Synthesis and Timing Closure

Lab debug methodologies

Collaboration with teams

Education

BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering

MS in relevant fields

Tools

Synopsys Protocompiler

Xilinx Vivado

ChipScope

Oscilloscopes

Logic/Protocol analyzers

Job description

Are you passionate about FPGA prototyping? Are you interested in pushing the boundaries of innovation to make FPGA prototypes faster and more efficient? Can you work in a fast-paced environment that requires coordination between many teams across geographies and resolving sophisticated problems daily? If so, we are looking for hardworking engineers who will craft FPGA prototypes of our next generation GPUs and SOCs on standard FPGA prototyping platforms.

We are now looking for a Senior FPGA Prototyping Platform Engineer to join our Emulation team onsite in Santa Clara, CA.

What you'll be doing

• Build FPGA prototypes by taking the design through synthesis and place and route, analyzing timing and generating bitstreams.
• Bring up the design on FPGA prototyping platforms involving hands‑on lab debug with HW and SW debuggers.
• Release the prototype to the customers and support them when they face problems.
• Using HW diagnostics specific to prototyping platforms to help isolate issues between HW platform, FPGA design programmed on to platform.
• Good coordination with verification engineers and SW teams and Lab Technicians will be needed to accomplish your tasks.

What we need to see

• BS (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields with 7+ years of experience in FPGA prototyping, or MS with 5+ years of proven experience in FPGA prototyping.
• Good understanding of FPGA prototyping hardware architecture, flows and tools.
• Experience with hands‑on FPGA prototyping lab tasks and working with or managing lab technicians in lab environment of medium to large scale.
• Experience in backend flows of FPGA prototyping - Synthesis, P&R and Timing closure, with emphasis on Synopsys Protocompiler and Xilinx Vivado.
• Hands‑on experience with lab FPGA debug methodologies, tools (Identify and/or ChipScope), and lab debug equipment (oscilloscopes, logic/protocol analyzers).

Ways to stand out from the crowd

• Experience with carrying out independent as well as collaborative debug tasks and ability to quickly triage and root‑cause issues is a major plus.
• Prior experience with prototyping (Synopsys HAPS or FPGA platforms) of a high‑performance processor or SOC is a plus.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4, and 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD for Level 5.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.