Staff FPGA Engineer for High-Performance SoC Test

Teradyne; North Reading (MA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plans

Paid vacation & holidays

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Teradyne's Compute Test Division in North Reading, MA seeks a Staff FPGA Engineer to design and deliver high-performance FPGA-based solutions central to our test platforms. The role spans FPGA design, board-level hardware, and system architecture to address timing margins and high-speed interfaces.

You will lead FPGA implementations from requirements through bring-up, collaborate with hardware, software, and verification teams, and mentor junior engineers while balancing architectural trade-offs

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on FPGA design experience.
• Strong expertise in Verilog/SystemVerilog for design and debugging.
• Proven experience with AMD (Xilinx) and/or Intel FPGA toolchains, including synthesis, implementation, and timing closure.
• Strong understanding of digital design fundamentals and ability to interpret schematics.

Responsibilities

• Lead FPGA solutions from requirements through implementation and bring-up.
• Develop high-performance FPGA logic involving complex interfaces and subsystem integration, along with automation and debug tools using TCL and Python.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, systems, and design verification teams to deliver cohesive system-level solutions and achieve appropriate simulation and test coverage.
• Support timing closure, resource optimization, performance tuning, lab bring-up, debugging, and root cause analysis using JTAG and lab instrumentation.
• Partner on PCB and system design decisions that affect FPGA performance and integration.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and provide technical guidance across the team.

Skills

FPGA design

Verilog/SystemVerilog

FPGA toolchains

PCIe/DDR/SerDes

TCL scripting

Python scripting

Version control

Tools

JTAG

Job description

Teradyne's Compute Test Division in North Reading, MA seeks a Staff FPGA Engineer to design and deliver high-performance FPGA-based solutions central to our test platforms. The role spans FPGA design, board-level hardware, and system architecture to address timing margins and high-speed interfaces.

You will lead FPGA implementations from requirements through bring-up, collaborate with hardware, software, and verification teams, and mentor junior engineers while balancing architectural trade-offs