Hardware Digital Engineer (FPGA & PCB Design)

About the role

Emerson’s Test and Measurement Systems group (formerly known as NI) Product R&D has an immediate opening for a Senior Digital Hardware Engineer within our Integrated Products design team in Austin, TX.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary hardware engineering teams to develop test and measurement products.
• Develop register maps and generate documentation to ensure clear design intent to the broader project team.
• Own the full FPGA design, including logic implementation, data movement and analysis, testbenches, compilation, and timing analysis.
• Own all aspects of digital board level design, including schematic entry, layout guidelines, signal integrity simulations, and prototype validation.
• Develop and execute plans for prototype hardware bring-up and board level validation.
• Be the voice of digital design in project meetings by estimating level of effort for design tasks, providing input on status of work, and proactively raising technical concerns.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Computer, or Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience in digital hardware design.
• Experience using VHDL and/or SystemVerilog to implement synthesizable logic targeting FPGAs.
• Experience using schematic capture and board layout tools for PCB design.

Qualifications

• Located within a commutable distance to NI’s offices in Austin, TX, or willing to relocate.
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now and in the future.
• Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1 (including those with OPT or CPT), H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Pay

Commensurate with experience.

Schedule

N/A

Benefits

Commensurate with experience.

Skills

• Experience bringing up prototype hardware.
• Familiar with common clock domain crossing methods.
• Experience with high-speed digital design.
• Knowledge of static timing analysis and experience writing timing constraints.
• Familiar with board level signal integrity simulation tools.
• Experience writing and executing test plans to verify board level digital circuits.
• Experience writing testbenches and simulation models to verify logic designs.
• Familiar with common benchtop instruments such as oscilloscopes, DMMs, function generators, and power supplies.
• Familiar with Xilinx, Intel or Lattice FPGAs and CPLDs, as well as their design tools.
• Experience collaborating with other technical disciplines such as Analog, Software, Mechanical, and RF.
• Knowledge of RF design practices.
• Familiar with semiconductor, transportation, and/or aerospace test industries.

Company Culture

We recognize that for our organization to support a diverse workforce, we must focus on employee wellbeing. We know that to do your best work, you must have flexible, competitive benefit plans to meet you and your family’s physical, mental, financial, and social needs. We provide a market-leading 401(k) and profit-sharing plan, a variety of medical insurance plans, with dental and vision coverage, family formation benefits in addition to paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), Employee Assistance Program, tuition reimbursement, employee resource groups, recognition, and much more. Our culture prioritizes work-life balance and offers flexible time off plans, inclusive of vacation, holiday, and sick leave. Our goal is to offer a strong benefits foundation while allowing employees the flexibility to choose options that best suit their needs.