Sr. FPGA Engineer, Hardware Compute Group

$143,300 - $247,600/Yr

Amazon - Sunnyvale, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Sunnyvale, CA

10,001+ employees

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About the position

The Sr. FPGA Engineer will be part of an advanced architecture team at Amazon, focusing on designing and prototyping hardware solutions for high-profile consumer electronics. This role involves defining the FPGA bring-up environment for ASIC and system prototyping, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams, and ensuring the successful implementation of FPGA solutions that enhance device performance.

Responsibilities

• Design world class hardware and software
• Communicate and work with team members across multiple disciplines
• Deliver IP's in FPGA platforms (Xilinx) for use by software teams
• Create and enhance verification of these IP's by leveraging the FPGA environment
• Identify and write all types tests for stimulus and corner-cases
• Debug tests with design engineers to deliver functionally correct design blocks

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in EE, CE, or CS
• 5+ years of FPGA design or FPGA-based ASIC prototyping
• Experience with FPGA build flows
• Experience with writing and debugging bring-up / test code for embedded systems (C/C++)
• Experience in prototype bring-up with strong hardware debug skills
• Experience with industry standard tools and scripting languages (Bash / Python / Perl) for automation

Nice-to-haves

• Masters / PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field
• 7+ years or more of FPGA design or FPGA-based ASIC prototyping
• Experience with ARM and various DSP ISA
• Experience debugging system-level issues
• Good programming skills in C/C++ and scripting skills in Python, Tcl, and/or Perl
• Working experience with high performance industry standard buses like AMBA AXI4
• Experience with post-silicon validation
• Experience with embedded software
• Experience with transaction level modeling
• Experience with industry standard I/O interfaces
• Experience with ASIC prototyping on FPGAs
• Experience with Synopsys HAPS
• Knowledge of SoC architecture
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Financial benefits
• Equity options
• Sign-on payments
• Comprehensive employee benefits