Senior Engineer, FPGA

The role

You will drive the development and rendering of FPGA images to support pre-silicon prototyping environments. You will work with SoC design, software development, design verification, and system test teams.

What you will do

• Implement and debug FPGA designs on AMD FPGA based prototyping platforms using Xilinx Vivado and ISE tools.
• Implement and debug FPGA designs on a Stratix-10 development board using Intel Quartus prime Pro.
• Support a regression test-suite consisting of system-level test cases to validate updated FPGA builds.
• Assist development teams in reproduction, triage, and debug of issues both pre-silicon and post-silicon
• Define and implement timing constraints.

Required qualifications

• BSEE or BSCE with 6 + years of SoC design, verification, or related work experience
• 8+ years of experience of FPGA design, bring-up, debugging, and verification
• In-depth knowledge of top-down FPGA development process with recent experience with FPGA-based prototyping on an FPGA development platform
• Solid experience with defining timing constraints for Static Timing Analysis
• Some familiarity with Cadence SoC design flow
• Expertise in both Intel Quartus Prime Pro and Xilinx Vivado suites
• Solid understanding of the tool flow from RTL to bitstream
• Some familiarity with programming in C language
• Familiarity with source code control systems (git) required
• Familiarity with simulation tools
• Hands-on lab bring-up experience, debug, and instrument usage

Nice to have

• In-depth experience with Stratix 10 FPGA platforms: boards, debug , performance, and throughput tuning
• In-depth experience with AMD VU19P prototyping systems, debug, design partitioning, performance, and throughput tuning
• Experience with Siemens proFPGA prototyping/emulation platform and VPS software
• Experience with ARM’s MPS4 platform
• Experience with low power designs
• Experience with embedded microprocessors
• Proven design validation skills
• In-depth experience writing Verilog code
• Experience with System Verilog verification environments
• Good analytical skills

About the company

Ambiq is on a mission to enable intelligence everywhere by powering the AI edge revolution with low-power semiconductor solutions. Since 2010, they have shipped over 300 million units to customers building wearables, medical devices, IoT products, and AI-powered edge applications.