Amazon
Sr. SDE - CPLD / FPGA
$168K–$262K
Seattle, WA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 16, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Cupertino, CA - Experience
- 8+ years of non-internship professional software development; 8+ years programming in at least one software programming language and a hardware description language; 5+ years leading design or architecture.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
About the job
Leads development and operational support of FPGA programmable logic and companion firmware for AWS server systems.
What you'll do
- Own FPGA architecture, design, estimation, implementation, verification, and validation of features.
- Contribute to companion firmware, deployment, monitoring, debugging, and operational support to improve fleet health.
- Lead technical work, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate across teams on system challenges.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience and 8+ years programming in at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging hardware, and mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent; 8+ years programming with a hardware description language (VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog).
Nice to have
- 8+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Experience leading and influencing a team or organization, and with work breakdown and estimating design task effort.
Pay
USD 193,300.00 - 261,500.00 annually (base salary); USD 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
FPGA, VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog
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