FPGA Manager (Teradyne, North Reading, MA)

Key Responsibilities

• Mentor and coach engineers, providing technical guidance, code/design reviews, and support for professional development
• Manage and lead a team of FPGA engineers (direct reports): set goals and priorities, delegate effectively, run regular 1:1s, and ensure on-time, high-quality delivery
• Manage a verification team, including external partners, to ensure clear scope, priorities, quality expectations, and execution cadence
• Develop and implement FPGA designs for advanced power semiconductor test systems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define FPGA requirements and write detailed specifications aligned with product and system-level needs
• Drive FPGA development from architecture and IP selection through implementation, verification, and release
• Contribute to FPGA-related hardware design decisions including device selection, pinout planning, and high-speed interfaces
• Support firmware and software teams during board bring-up, system integration, and factory readiness
• Perform hands-on debugging and validation using lab equipment such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and JTAG tools
• Help evolve FPGA architectures to support high-throughput, deterministic, and scalable power test solutions for emerging workloads including AI and wide-bandgap devices
• Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and inclusive collaboration; recognize contributions and address issues constructively

Minimum Technical Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in FPGA design, implementation, and verification
• Strong proficiency in Verilog for FPGA synthesis
• Hands-on experience with AMD (Xilinx) and/or Intel (Altera) FPGA toolchains, including IP configuration and timing constraint development
• Proven design experience with digital and mixed-signal interfaces such as high-speed serial interfaces (e.g., PCIe, SerDes), memory interfaces (DDR), ADCs/DACs, and control and communication protocols (AXI4, SPI, I²C, USB)
• Experience building verification environments, simulations, and testbenches for new FPGA features
• Experience validating FPGA functionality on real hardware platforms
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across disciplines and cultures

Leadership & Management Attributes (Formal People Manager)

• Driven, self-starter mindset with a bias for action and strong ownership from problem definition through delivery
• Demonstrated ability to build and lead teams—recruiting, onboarding, mentoring, and creating an environment where engineers can do their best work
• Experience as a direct people manager (or strong readiness to step into formal people leadership), including goal setting, regular feedback, and performance development
• Comfortable as both a coach and a player: able to lead, delegate, and develop others while remaining hands-on in architecture, implementation, and debugging
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align cross-functional partners and influence without authority