Senior FPGA Development Engineer, Bespoke Solutions

About the role

AWS seeks a Senior FPGA Development Engineer with experience developing programmable logic on the most advanced FPGAs. They will help architect, develop, and integrate scalable FPGA systems in the AWS technology ecosystem. This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Secret security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

Responsibilities

• Develop custom RTL and integrate with third party libraries to build end to end 100G+ solutions
• Collaborate with design and system engineers to perform tradeoffs and architect new solutions for customers
• Own the interface between software and hardware by developing drivers, and providing software examples
• Lead in design meetings to plan development and review peer designs
• Help identify new opportunities and new technologies to improve the customer experience and add features

A day in the life

You will work on a cross-functional team of hardware and software developers, writing programmable logic and embedded software to interact with custom hardware. You will debug RTL in simulation, synthesize and implement ensuring it meets timing and performance requirements. You help deploy RTL onto hardware targets and help debug issues that come along in RTL, hardware, or software. You will provide subject matter expertise in architectural discussions, and strategic planning meetings. We develop AWS owned hardware solutions in order to scale globally, minimize cost, and maximize value for our customers. We are a growing team of hardware, software and FPGA engineers with a dedicated product development lab in Arlington, VA.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
• 5+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• 7+ years of non-internship professional RTL development experience
• 3+ years developing programmable logic in VHDL or Verilog for FPGA SOCs

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
• 7+ years of full RTL development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Experience developing programmable logic for FPGAs in VHDL or Verilog
• Experience with Xilinx Ultrascale+ FPGAs, Versal ACAPs, and/or Intel Agilex SOCs
• Experience developing programmable logic for 100G Networking Systems
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

Pay

• USA, CO, Denver - 159,200.00 - 215,300.00 USD annually
• USA, MD, Jessup - 159,200.00 - 215,300.00 USD annually
• USA, VA, Arlington - 159,200.00 - 215,300.00 USD annually
• USA, VA, Herndon - 159,200.00 - 215,300.00 USD annually