Senior FPGA Development Engineer, Bespoke Solutions
Key job 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.
About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
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
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)