Senior System FPGA Engineer — RTL, Verification & Bring-Up

Qualcomm; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 151,800 - 227,800; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Staff/Sr. Staff System FPGA Engineer to join our Engineering Group. You will implement RTL, build test benches, and perform synthesis, timing closure, and lab bring-up on next‑generation server reference platforms.

You will collaborate with platform teams across SoC, software, firmware, and hardware, contributing to design automation with Python, cocotb, and GitHub workflows, while ensuring high RTL quality and clear documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, CS, or related field; 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Implement RTL designs based on defined architectures and translate specs to synthesizable HDL.

Skills

HDL (Verilog/SystemVerilog)

Python scripting

cocotb

Git/GitHub

FPGA development tools

Test benches & verification

PCIe/DDR5 interfaces

Lab bring-up

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, CS, or related field

Master's degree preferred

PhD in related field

Tools

Vivado/Vitis

Quartus Prime

JTAG/test equipment

CAD tools

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Staff/Sr. Staff System FPGA Engineer to join our Engineering Group. You will implement RTL, build test benches, and perform synthesis, timing closure, and lab bring-up on next‑generation server reference platforms.

You will collaborate with platform teams across SoC, software, firmware, and hardware, contributing to design automation with Python, cocotb, and GitHub workflows, while ensuring high RTL quality and clear documentation.