FPGA Engineer: ISP

Job Title

FPGA Engineer: ISP

Role Summary

Design, implement, verify, and optimize FPGA-based ISP and domain control functions for an automotive-grade autonomous vehicle platform. The role sits on the compute platform team and focuses on production-quality RTL, system integration, and on-board debugging.

Work emphasizes performance, power, area, and timing optimization for SoC/FPGA platforms used in Tensor's Robocar systems.

Experience Level

Mid-level. No specific years listed; suitable for engineers with substantial hands-on FPGA design and integration experience.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include:

• Contribute to solution and architecture design for domain control FPGA subsystems.
• Develop system- and module-level RTL (Verilog/SystemVerilog), and perform simulation and verification.
• Perform on-board bring-up and debugging of FPGA designs.
• Optimize FPGA implementations for performance, power, area, and timing.
• Integrate FPGA firmware with software and hardware systems and resolve development issues.
• Use vendor toolchains (AMD, Lattice) and work with Zynq or equivalent platforms.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience:

• Proficient in Verilog/SystemVerilog for RTL design.
• Extensive FPGA design and development experience, including optimization for performance, power, and area.
• Experience with FPGA development environments and tools from AMD or Lattice; familiarity with Zynq-series or equivalent SoC-FPGA platforms.
• Familiarity with the AXI bus protocol.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces such as MIPI, PCIe, and DDR.
• Familiarity with common peripheral interfaces: I2C, SPI, UART.
• Ability to perform simulation, verification, on-board debugging, and timing/resource optimization.

Nice-to-have:

• ISP processing experience.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: Tensor Auto

Headquarters: San Jose, CA, United States

An agentic AI company building consumer-focused autonomous vehicles. Its flagship product, the Tensor Robocar, is positioned as a fully autonomous, automotive-grade personal Robocar for private ownership. Founded in 2016 in Silicon Valley, the company focuses on personal AGI and agentic products, with offices in Barcelona, Singapore, and Dubai.