Senior FPGA Engineer

Job Title

Senior FPGA Engineer

Role Summary

Contract FPGA engineer assigned as a W2 employee of Donatech to develop, integrate, and verify FPGA solutions for defense-related client programs. The role works on an Agile engineering team and supports hardware bring-up, peer reviews, and certification activities.

Experience Level

Senior — typically requires 5+ years of relevant experience, or 3+ years with an advanced degree in a related field.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include design, implementation, verification, and integration of FPGA systems and supporting engineering processes.

• Perform requirements capture, design, and verification of FPGA implementations.
• Integrate FPGA designs onto target hardware and support lab bring-up and validation.
• Support and participate in peer reviews, certification analysis, and design reviews.
• Follow client engineering development, quality processes, procedures, and guidelines.
• Participate in Agile team meetings and program planning activities.
• Manage change requests and task assignments using Jira.

Requirements

Mandatory technical, security, and employment requirements.

• U.S. citizenship required.
• Active U.S. government issued Final Secret security clearance required.
• Must be able to be employed as a W2 employee of Donatech.
• Minimum of 3 years professional experience in FPGA development, ASIC front end, or related areas.
• Proficient in VHDL and/or Verilog for FPGA/ASIC design and implementation.
• Experience with digital circuit architecture, resource tradeoffs, timing analysis, and timing closure.
• Familiarity with FPGA platforms and toolchains (examples: AMD/Xilinx Vivado, Intel/Altera Quartus, Microchip Libero).
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills for FPGA/ASIC systems.
• Proficiency with revision control tools and concepts (e.g., Git, Subversion).

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with high-speed interfaces and protocols (DDR, PCIe, Ethernet).
• Familiarity with chip-level verification techniques and SystemVerilog, constrained-random methods, or functional coverage.
• Experience in ASIC/FPGA lab validation using advanced laboratory equipment.
• Experience with Unix, scripting, C/C++, or Perl.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Education Requirements

Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field with a minimum of 3 years relevant experience. Equivalent practical experience is implied by the alternative advanced-degree clause.

About the Company

Company: DensityAI

Headquarters: Mountain View, CA, United States

DensityAI is a semiconductor company focused on developing advanced silicon and multi-die packaged chips, with expertise in design-for-test, verification, and production test for high-performance and AI applications.