Senior FPGA Validation Engineer, HW/SW Co-Design

Advanced Micro Devices; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices is seeking a senior FPGA/embedded systems engineer in the San Jose area to design and validate high-speed FPGA solutions and the embedded software that drives them. You will work across PCIe, memory, and connectivity interfaces, collaborating with architects, hardware and firmware teams to deliver robust hardware and software stacks.

Requirements include 8+ years in FPGA design, strong SystemVerilog/VHDL, Yocto-based Linux flows, and proven board bring-up abilities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on FPGA design experience.
• Strong SystemVerilog/Verilog and/or VHDL with Vivado experience.
• Deep knowledge of clocking, CDC, timing constraints, and STA.
• Experience in high-reliability, low-latency systems.
• Experience with SystemVerilog testbenches.
• Experience with Yocto-based Embedded Linux flows (BSPs, device trees).
• Excellent hardware debug skills with ILA, scopes, and logic analyzers.
• Board bring-up and validation experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, implementation, prototyping, validation, and support across the product cycle.
• Collaborate with architects, hardware and firmware engineers to scope new features.
• RTL development: design, verify, and validate high-performance logic for PCIe/SerDes and memory interfaces.
• Embedded system development: firmware and low-level software for ARM/RISC-V cores with Yocto-based tooling.
• System-level integration: use Vivado/Vitis to integrate IPs, NoC, and memory; bring-up Baremetal/Linux.
• Pre-Si verification: run verification and emulation to confirm correctness and performance.
• Board bring-up and validation: support power-on to validated platform with bench/scripts.
• Post-Si validation: debug interactions between software, IPs, and FPGA fabric.

Skills

FPGA design

SystemVerilog

Verilog/VHDL

Yocto Linux

C/C++ bare-metal

Embedded Linux

Board bring-up

Oscilloscopes/Debug

PCIe/SerDes

Git/CI tooling

Education

Bachelors or Masters in EE/CE

Tools

Yocto

Vivado

Vitis

EDA tools

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices is seeking a senior FPGA/embedded systems engineer in the San Jose area to design and validate high-speed FPGA solutions and the embedded software that drives them. You will work across PCIe, memory, and connectivity interfaces, collaborating with architects, hardware and firmware teams to deliver robust hardware and software stacks.

Requirements include 8+ years in FPGA design, strong SystemVerilog/VHDL, Yocto-based Linux flows, and proven board bring-up abilities.