System & FPGA Platform Engineer

Job Title

System & FPGA Platform Engineer

Role Summary

Lead FPGA prototyping and system-level platform engineering from architecture through working system. Own multi-FPGA prototype development, RTL partitioning to FPGA, board and rack-level requirements, and silicon bring-up activities in collaboration with software and firmware teams.

Experience Level

Senior - typically requires 7+ years of experience in FPGA prototyping, system/board design, or silicon bring-up.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include building and validating FPGA prototypes, defining system requirements, and driving bring-up and debug activities.

• Build and maintain multi-FPGA prototype platforms (e.g., AMD Versal/Alveo class) including HBM and PAM4 transceivers; maintain a Toronto-hosted lab rig.
• Port and partition RTL to FPGA; perform timing closure, transceiver bring-up, PCIe host link bring-up, and implement debug infrastructure.
• Define system-level requirements: host interface, board design, power/thermal budgets, clocking and synchronization across accelerators.
• Create bring-up plans and lab validation procedures for first silicon.
• Work with software and firmware teams on drivers, firmware integration, and demo workloads.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and practical lab experience.

Must-have:

• Strong experience with Vivado and Versal flows, and FPGA prototyping toolchains.
• Expertise with multi-gigabit transceivers and PCIe endpoint design.
• Hands-on lab debugging: oscilloscopes, BERT, protocol analyzers; methodical hardware debug practices.
• Scripting in Python and Tcl; basic Linux driver-level familiarity.
• Experience with timing closure and transceiver bring-up.

Nice-to-have:

• Rack-scale or multi-accelerator system design experience (GPU servers, switch systems).
• Signal integrity / power integrity awareness for 32G NRZ / 64G PAM4 links.
• Post-silicon validation experience with GPU, NPU, or networking ASICs.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering (BS/MS EE or CE) as specified in the source posting.

About the Company

Company: Epic ASIC

Headquarters: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto-based semiconductor design company providing end-to-end ASIC and SoC development services from architecture and RTL through tapeout and production. Works on high-performance computing, custom ASICs, high-bandwidth data movement, power optimization, and hardware for AI/datacenter infrastructure.