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Senior FPGA Prototyping Engineer - Hardware

NVIDIA· Engineer, ASIC
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Santa Clara, CA$196k - $310.5kFull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Senior FPGA Prototyping Engineer to join NVIDIA's Emulation team onsite in Santa Clara, CA. Responsible for creating FPGA prototypes of next-generation GPUs and SOCs, optimizing performance, bringing up designs, and supporting customers.

Responsibilities

  • Build FPGA prototypes by making RTL FPGA-friendly, partitioning the design and taking it through synthesis and place and route.

Qualifications

  • BS (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields with 12+ years of experience, or MS with 10+ years of proven experience in FPGA prototyping.
  • Good understanding of FPGA prototyping architecture, devices, flows and tools.
  • Experience in backend flows of FPGA Prototyping - Synthesis, P&R and Timing closure, with emphasis on Synopsys Protocompiler or Siemens VPS and Xilinx Vivado
  • Exposure to ASIC design and verification tools (VCS or equivalent, Verdi, GDB).
  • Knowledge of Verilog, System Verilog and digital design concepts.
  • Good debugging and problem solving skills.
  • Hands on experience with lab FPGA debug methodologies, tools (Identify or ChipScope), and lab debug equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers).

Skills

Required:FPGA prototypingSynthesisTiming closureVerilog/SystemVerilogDebugging

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits
  • Career growth opportunities
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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