FPGA Engineer

Job Title

FPGA Engineer (Contract)

Role Summary

Contract hardware engineer responsible for FPGA prototyping, firmware-style test development, and post-silicon bring-up and validation. Works on a cross-functional team with design, firmware, and validation engineers to deliver stable FPGA platforms and resolve hardware/firmware integration issues.

Experience Level

Senior — approximately 7 years of relevant experience expected.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include:

• Develop embedded C/C++ test content, low-level drivers, and firmware-style self-checking tests for subsystems and SoCs.
• Extend compile/build flows to support firmware-style tests and automated validation.
• Act as technical owner of the FPGA prototyping platform (e.g., HAPS or Xilinx): produce board images/bitfiles and deliver stable platform releases.
• Design and integrate custom FPGA RTL for protocol interfaces and feature enablement.
• Develop and maintain Python tooling for interfacing with FPGA platforms, test automation, and data parsing.
• Perform hardware and post-silicon debug using JTAG debuggers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and multimeters.
• Drive post-silicon bring-up and validation in the lab, run validation suites on first silicon, and meet bring-up exit criteria on schedule.
• Root-cause failing post-silicon tests, analyze scan dumps, coordinate cross-team debug, and deliver fixes.

Requirements

Must-have skills and experience:

• Proven experience developing C/C++ test content for subsystem and SoC verification, including bare-metal and firmware-style tests.
• Experience bringing up and maintaining FPGA prototyping or emulation platforms (e.g., HAPS, Xilinx), including board images and platform tooling.
• Hands-on hardware debug experience with JTAG debuggers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and multimeters.
• Experience with post-silicon verification and bring-up: test planning, test development, failure debug, and coverage signoff.
• Proficiency in Python or similar scripting languages (Perl, Ruby) for test automation, build flows, and log/data parsing.
• Strong understanding of verification principles, testbench architecture (SystemVerilog familiarity), and stimulus generation.
• Familiarity with industry protocols such as AMBA (AXI/AHB/APB), JTAG, SPI, I2C/I3C, and USB.
• Effective cross-team communication and collaboration skills; ability to coordinate debugging across design, firmware, hardware, and security teams.
• Solid understanding of silicon and/or computer architecture.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: Arrow Electronics

Headquarters: Centennial, Colorado, United States

Global technology solutions provider and distributor of electronic components, software and services. Serves commercial and industrial markets with design engineering, product realization, supply chain and IoT solutions; parent company of eInfochips.