Nvidia
Senior FPGA Prototyping Engineer - Hardware
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior
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About the role
- Are you passionate about FPGA prototyping?
- Are you interested in pushing the boundaries of innovation to make FPGA prototypes faster and more efficient?
- Can you work in a fast-paced environment that requires coordination between many teams across geographies and resolving sophisticated problems daily?
Responsibilities
- Build FPGA prototypes by making RTL FPGA-friendly, partitioning the design and taking it through synthesis and place and route.
- Bring up the design on FPGA prototyping platforms and indulge in problem solving.
- Experience in backend flows of FPGA Prototyping - Synthesis, P&R and Timing closure, with emphasis on Synopsys Protocompiler or Siemens VPS and Xilinx Vivado Exposure to ASIC design and verification tools (VCS or equivalent, Verdi, GDB).
- Knowledge of Verilog, System Verilog and digital design concepts.
- Release the prototype to the customers and support them when they face problems.
- You are expected to understand the design and implementation, define the configurations, develop/modify the bringup and testing infrastructure and verify the correctness of the design.
Requirements
- What we need to see: BS (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields with 12+ years of experience, or MS with 10+ years of proven experience in FPGA prototyping.
- Hands on experience with lab FPGA debug methodologies, tools (Identify or ChipScope), and lab debug equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers).
- BS (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields with 12+ years of experience, or MS with 10+ years of proven experience in FPGA prototyping.
Compensation
- Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.
- The base salary range is 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD for Level 5, and 232,000 USD - 368,000 USD for Level 6.
Company info
- If so, we are looking for hardworking engineers who will craft FPGA prototypes of our next generation GPUs and SOCs on standard FPGA prototyping platforms.
- We are now looking for a Senior FPGA Prototyping Engineer to join our Emulation team onsite in Santa Clara, CA.
- Ways to stand out from the crowd: Scripting knowledge (Perl/shell/Tcl) is desired.
- Ways to stand out from the crowd:
Equal opportunity
- NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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