Senior FPGA Engineer, LEO Payload FPGA
About the role
LEO is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we've designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Key job responsibilities
- Create FPGA solutions to support LEO's satellite communication system. This is a unique opportunity to define a new system with few legacy constraints.
- Work with systems teams to define/develop/implement/test/release FPGA based solutions to enable LEO, focusing on creating digital designs for networking functions using the latest generations of FPGA technologies and modern FPGA design processes and tools.
- Have ownership of one or more FPGA bitstreams.
- Create and release FPGAs through the development phases of uArchitecture-RTL Design-Physical Implementation-Timing Closure–Simulation Validation–Lab Based Silicon Validation
- Collaborate with network communication system architects to define and design/implement/test/release/support networking functions targeted to FPGA technology
- Collaborate with Digital Communications/Networking system architects and design engineers to implement digital logic functions in FPGAs.
- Collaborate with system architects and design engineers to implement digital logic functions in FPGA prototypes to validate/tradeoff architecture & design alternatives
- Collaborate with systems architects, HW engineering design teams & FW/SW design teams to bring up and test systems combining FPGA, firmware, RF, and Networking functions.
- Drive trade-off analysis to benefit customer experience and optimization of target technology resources for cost/size/power/performance/features
Basic qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
- Experience with modern ASIC/FPGA design and verification tools
- Experience in writing test scripts (Python preferred) to validate FPGA images in HW
- 7+ years experience in FPGA design and Implementation using System Verilog
- Experience with Xilinx/AMD (or Altera) FPGAs
- Experience with uArchitecture, RTL coding, FPGA optimization for timing & power, simulation, and validation
Preferred qualifications
- Experience developing python tests for both HW testing and Cocotb simulation enviroments
- Experience with high speed networking, SerDes, 50G/100G Ethernet or Interlaken
- Familiarity with AXI4 and AXI Streaming interfaces
- Proven track record of successfully fielding and supporting FPGA and ASIC products
Pay
USA, CA, Sunnyvale - 183,000.00 - 247,600.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.
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