Senior FPGA/Prototype Design Engineer

Job Title

Senior FPGA/Prototype Design Engineer

Role Summary

Work with design, verification, and software teams to develop FPGA prototypes and emulation platforms that validate ASIC designs, accelerate software development, and support post-silicon bring-up.

Deliver portable prototype platforms, maintain retargeting flows, and provide technical support and qualification for prototype and emulation releases.

Experience Level

Senior - typically 7+ years of experience in FPGA prototyping, emulation, or digital design verification.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include building and validating FPGA and emulation platforms, reproducing failures, and enabling early hardware-software integration.

• Develop and maintain ASIC-to-FPGA retargeting flows (resource constraints, clock scaling, memory retargeting).
• Deliver FPGA prototype platforms for multiple configurations, top levels, and release qualification.
• Qualify commercial emulation platforms and assess test coverage and compatibility against simulation.
• Reproduce and debug prototype and emulation failures with design and verification teams through resolution.
• Build portable platform environments spanning block and top level, RTL and gate, pre-silicon and silicon.
• Support post-silicon bring-up using shared pre-silicon benches and simulation platforms.
• Accelerate software development and early hardware integration by releasing prototypes and documenting feature limitations.
• Support internal platform users through triage, documentation, and direct technical assistance.

Requirements

Must-have technical qualifications followed by concise nice-to-have items.

• Must-have: 7+ years of experience in FPGA prototyping, emulation, or digital design verification.
• Experience with FPGA implementation tools and flows, including synthesis, constraints, and timing closure.
• Experience developing and debugging production RTL in SystemVerilog or Verilog authored by others.
• Experience defining FPGA prototype or emulation flows, including build automation and release management.
• Proven ability to reproduce and debug prototype/emulation failures and support post-silicon bring-up.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with emulation platforms for large-scale SoC validation and release.
• Background in space-based communications, wireless communications, modem/baseband, or DSP hardware.
• Experience verifying LDPC, FEC, framing, beamforming, interconnect/NoC performance, bandwidth, QoS, and deadlock analysis.
• Experience verifying fault tolerance features such as ECC, redundancy schemes, or fault injection.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline is required. A Master’s degree in those fields is preferred.

About the Company

Company: Blue Origin

Headquarters: Kent, Washington, United States

Blue Origin is an American aerospace company developing technologies for spaceflight, including reusable launch vehicles, orbital and suborbital systems, and space infrastructure for commercial and government customers.