Senior Principal FPGA Architect — Embedded SoC & RF

Vanteon Corp; City of Rochester (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

BCBS medical, dental, and vision

401(K) with company match

Parental Leave

Life insurance

EAP

On-site gym

PTO

Job summary

Vanteon, a PDW Company, seeks a Senior Principal FPGA Engineer in Rochester, NY to lead complex FPGA architectures and hands-on development across hardware, firmware, and software domains. You will own verification, timing closure, and interface designs while mentoring engineers and shaping project execution.

The role emphasizes independent technical leadership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and driving design reviews and reusable methodologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline (EE/CE/CS)
• Extensive FPGA development experience with ownership of complex designs
• Advanced proficiency in VHDL and/or Verilog
• Strong experience with FPGA tools (Vivado) and debugging
• Expertise in timing constraints, clock-domain crossings, and optimization
• Experience with FPGA interfaces to processors/memory/peripherals
• Ability to lead decisions and coordinate across engineering disciplines

Responsibilities

• Lead FPGA/SoC architecture, design, implementation, and verification for complex embedded systems
• Translate requirements into FPGA specs, interfaces, and verification criteria
• Develop synthesizable VHDL/Verilog for digital logic and real-time processing
• Own synthesis, timing constraints, and timing closure
• Develop test benches and simulation environments for verification
• Lead hardware bring-up, debugging, and integration with embedded software
• Mentor engineers and improve reusable designs and workflows
• Provide technical estimates and support for proposals and planning

Skills

FPGA design

VHDL/Verilog

timing closure

board bring-up

debugging tools

leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering/Computer Science

Tools

Vivado

Questa/ModelSim

Intel Quartus

Job description

Vanteon, a PDW Company, seeks a Senior Principal FPGA Engineer in Rochester, NY to lead complex FPGA architectures and hands-on development across hardware, firmware, and software domains. You will own verification, timing closure, and interface designs while mentoring engineers and shaping project execution.

The role emphasizes independent technical leadership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and driving design reviews and reusable methodologies.