Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vanteon Corporation develops wireless, RF, and embedded technology for demanding applications. The Senior FPGA Engineer develops and verifies FPGA and SoC solutions for customer programs and internal research and development, contributes to design architecture, and collaborates across engineering disciplines.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and verify FPGA logic for embedded systems, including control functions, data interfaces, and real-time processing
- Translate system requirements into detailed designs, interface definitions, and verification plans
- Develop synthesizable VHDL and/or Verilog and reusable FPGA components
- Perform synthesis and implementation, develop timing constraints, and resolve timing and resource utilization issues
- Create simulation environments and test benches to verify functionality before hardware integration
- Perform FPGA configuration, hardware bring-up, debugging, and integration with embedded processors, firmware, and electronic subsystems
- Collaborate with RF, hardware, DSP, and embedded software engineers to resolve integration challenges
- Participate in architecture discussions and design reviews, explaining technical approaches and tradeoffs
- Maintain technical documentation, including design descriptions, interface specifications, and verification results
- Provide estimates and communicate progress, technical risks, and issues affecting assigned work
- Support junior engineers and co-op students through design guidance, reviews, and troubleshooting
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline
- Five or more years of professional FPGA development experience, including delivery of designs through simulation, implementation, and hardware verification
- Proficiency in VHDL and/or Verilog and a strong understanding of synthesizable design practices
- Experience with AMD/Xilinx Vivado or comparable FPGA development tools
- Working knowledge of timing constraints, timing closure, clock-domain crossings, reset strategies, and resource optimization
- Experience developing FPGA interfaces to processors, memory, peripherals, or other hardware
- Experience with FPGA configuration, board bring-up, and debugging using simulation tools, embedded logic analyzers, and laboratory equipment
- Ability to independently complete assigned development work while collaborating effectively across engineering disciplines
- Strong analytical, written communication, and verbal communication skills
- Candidates must be U.S. citizens or otherwise eligible to access the specific ITAR-controlled data and CUI required for assigned projects without additional authorization
- Master's degree in a relevant engineering discipline
- Experience with AMD/Xilinx Zynq, UltraScale+, or comparable FPGA and SoC platforms
- Experience with Vivado/Vitis, Questa/ModelSim, or Intel Quartus toolchains
- Experience implementing DSP algorithms, digital communications functions, or software-defined radio capabilities in FPGA hardware
- Experience with interfaces such as AXI, SPI, I²C, UART, DMA. Ethernet, PCIe, and DDR memory
- Familiarity with embedded C/C++, processor-to-FPGA integration, and embedded Linux systems
- Experience using Python or Tcl to automate development, verification, or testing
- Familiarity with version control and continuous integration
- Experience supporting wireless, RF, aerospace, defense, robotics, or other demanding embedded applications
Benefits
- Flexible work environment: regularly work from the Rochester, NY office, with flexibility to work from home as project activities allow; hardware bring-up, integration, testing, and other collaborative work require onsite participation.
- For exceptionally qualified candidates outside the region: remote arrangement may follow an initial onsite ramp-up period in Rochester of three to six months; any subsequent remote arrangement depends on project needs and the ability to perform assigned responsibilities effectively.
- Cross-training
- Education benefits
- Mentoring program connecting employees with senior staff and providing opportunities to mentor junior engineers and co-op students
- Employee-sponsored events
- Comprehensive BCBS medical, dental, and vision coverage; starting in 2027, 80% sponsored by the company
- Safe Harbor 401(k) with company match
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employer-provided life insurance
- Robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- On-site gym
- Generous paid time off (PTO)
- Flexible leave options
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