Amazon
Sr. SDE - CPLD / FPGA
$168K–$262K
Seattle, WA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 26, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Cupertino, CA - Experience
- 8+ years of non-internship professional software development; 8+ years programming in a 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 servers, from architecture and implementation through validation and deployment.
What you'll do
- Own FPGA architecture, design, estimates, implementation, verification, and validation of features.
- Contribute to companion firmware, deployment, monitoring, debugging, and fleet-health support.
- 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.
- Hardware troubleshooting/debugging experience and experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- 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.
- Experience leading and influencing a team or organization, and breaking down and estimating design work.
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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