FPGA Engineer

Job Title

FPGA Engineer (Contract)

Role Summary

Contract hardware/FPGA engineer responsible for FPGA prototyping platforms and post-silicon validation. The role owns board images/bitfiles, develops firmware-style tests, extends build flows, and debugs silicon and platform issues in the lab.

Experience Level

Senior — approximately 7 years of relevant experience in FPGA prototyping, firmware-style test development, and post-silicon bring-up.

Responsibilities

Primary technical responsibilities for the contract engagement:

• Develop C/C++ bare-metal and firmware-style test content and low-level drivers for subsystems and SoCs, including self-checking tests.
• Extend compile/build flows to support custom firmware-style tests and automation.
• Own the team's FPGA prototyping platform (e.g., HAPS or Xilinx): create and release board images and bitfiles; design additional RTL for protocol interfaces and features.
• Develop and maintain Python tooling to interface with FPGA platforms and automate workflows.
• Debug FPGA and post-silicon issues 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 to firmware, drivers, and hardware.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience:

• 7+ years relevant experience in firmware-style testing, FPGA prototyping, and post-silicon validation.
• Proven experience developing C and C++ test content for subsystem and SoC verification, including bare-metal tests.
• Hands-on experience bringing up and maintaining FPGA prototyping platforms (HAPS or Xilinx), including platform tooling and testbench changes.
• Working knowledge of SystemVerilog testbenches and verification principles.
• Practical hardware debug skills with JTAG debuggers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and multimeters.
• Experience with post-silicon verification and bring-up: test planning, failure debug, and coverage signoff.
• Proficiency in Python or similar scripting languages (Perl, Ruby) for automation, build flows, and parsing logs/data.
• Familiarity with industry protocols such as AMBA (AXI/AHB/APB), JTAG, SPI, I2C/I3C, and USB.
• Strong understanding of silicon and/or computer architecture and ability to collaborate across architecture, design, firmware, and validation teams.

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.