Senior Hardware Engineer: FPGA/SoC & High-Reliability

SGS Consulting; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SGS Consulting seeks an experienced hardware engineer to design, develop, and test advanced computer hardware, including FPGA-based systems, CPUs, and peripherals. You will coordinate multi-person design efforts, validate through simulation and physical testing, and iterate to achieve robust, radiation-tolerant products.

The role requires strong VHDL/Verilog skills, deep Xilinx toolchain knowledge, UNIX scripting, and hands-on lab experience with test equipment. Bachelor's degree is required.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating team-based design development processes for FPGA based designs.
• Proficiency in mixed language VHDL/Verilog, simulation, verification, synthesis, timing closure.
• In-depth knowledge of UNIX based scripting and Xilinx toolchains.
• Experience with legacy IP and UNIX build environments.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and tests computer hardware, including systems, circuits, chips, and peripherals.
• Supervises production and installation of parts; tests and retests to ensure functionality.
• Designs software systems that control hardware and tests circuits.
• Identifies defects and refines processes; builds and prototypes.
• Analyses information to recommend hardware and peripherals; specifies power supply needs.
• Retrieves data for analysis of system capabilities; uses engineering tools and equipment.
• Evaluates design effectiveness and performs iterations for high reliability hardware.

Skills

FPGA design coordination

VHDL/Verilog

Xilinx Virtex MPSoCs

DDR4 physical layer

GateRocket hardware acceleration

UNIX scripting

Xilinx ISE

Xilinx Vivado

Modelsim/Questa

PCB design & debugging

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Altium Designer

Orcad

Cadence Allegro

Job description

SGS Consulting seeks an experienced hardware engineer to design, develop, and test advanced computer hardware, including FPGA-based systems, CPUs, and peripherals. You will coordinate multi-person design efforts, validate through simulation and physical testing, and iterate to achieve robust, radiation-tolerant products.

The role requires strong VHDL/Verilog skills, deep Xilinx toolchain knowledge, UNIX scripting, and hands-on lab experience with test equipment. Bachelor's degree is required.