Staff FPGA Design Engineer

Job Title

Staff FPGA Design Engineer

Role Summary

Lead development and optimization of the FPGA fabric PPC within the Adaptive & Embedded Computing Group (AECG). Provide technical direction for design engineers, evaluate future architectures and foundry technologies, and coordinate with architecture, manufacturing, integration, and sign-off teams.

Focus on enabling new programmable fabric capabilities, driving design reviews, reducing product risk, and supporting test-chip and silicon evaluation across product roadmaps.

Experience Level

Senior (Staff) — typically 7+ years of relevant ASIC/FPGA design or silicon development experience.

Responsibilities

The primary responsibilities include:

• Lead and execute FPGA fabric research and development projects to improve performance, power, and cost (PPC).
• Drive design reviews and provide technical guidance to engineers and architects.
• Evaluate new fabric features, architectures, process and packaging technologies.
• Enable and support test-chip designs and silicon evaluation with architecture and manufacturing teams.
• Develop and assess yield-improvement and binning/circuit margin techniques.
• Collaborate with digital, analog, physical design, custom layout, integration, and sign-off teams.

Requirements

Must-have skills and experience:

• Proven experience in FPGA fabric or programmable-logic design and evaluation.
• Experience leading design reviews and guiding multi-discipline engineering teams.
• Strong problem-solving and written/verbal communication skills.
• Experience with silicon evaluation, test-chip enablement, or working with manufacturing/foundry processes.

Nice-to-have:

• Programmable logic fundamentals; regulators, SRAM design, LUTs, NOCs, and clocking techniques.
• Binning and circuit margins (VID, aging); techniques for high performance and low power.
• Design for Manufacturing, Design for Debug, and micro-architecture of dense repeating structures.
• Experience with industrial/automotive FUSA requirements and next-generation packaging technologies.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

About the Company

Company: Advanced Micro Devices

Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California, USA

Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, is a global semiconductor company that designs and manufactures microprocessors, graphics processors, and related technologies for a variety of computing devices. Known for pushing the boundaries of innovation, AMD's mission is to deliver high-performance computing solutions for AI, data centers, gaming, and embedded applications. They foster a collaborative, inclusive culture focused on creativity and problem-solving, aiming to drive progress and excellence in technology.