Senior FPGA Engineer
DRWAbout the Role
DRW is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to join one of our trading teams. You will have the opportunity to build an FPGA application from scratch for an existing team, with a strong understanding of software and hardware interaction. This person will participate in the full development lifecycle, including system and block level testing, of low latency high throughput FPGA design.
- Architect and implement new FPGA applications (synthesis, place & route, static timing analysis, documentation) from the ground up
- Research and evaluate a variety of cutting-edge FPGA hardware and technologies
- Propose creative solutions to overcome FPGA/hardware limitations
- Liaise directly with software and other design teams
- Conduct lab debugging and characterization of new hardware
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher, Computer/Electrical Engineering graduated with honors from a leading university, with 3+ years of experience within the field; (Master's degree or higher also counts for experience)
- Solid Hardware Engineering experience, especially with FPGA
- Highly autonomous with a can-do attitude able to lead an FPGA based project from system requirements to production
- Strong capacity to quickly evaluate FPGA based project feasibility based on hardware limitation
- Strong skills in RTL logic design and verification; 2+ years of experience writing Verilog or SystemVerilog
- Strong knowledge of FPGAs fabric
- Experience in FPGA design flow including synthesis, place & route, static timing analysis is required
- Knowledge of Ethernet and Gigabit high speed serial interfaces
- Strong working knowledge of either XILINX or ALTERA FPGA design flow
- Experience with Python verification framework is a plus
- Excellent research and data gathering skills