NVIDIA
Senior FPGA Prototyping Engineer - Hardware
$196K–$368K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years with a BS (or equivalent experience), or 10+ years with an MS; FPGA prototyping experience is specified for the MS path.
- Education
- BS (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields, or MS.
About the job
Build and support FPGA prototypes of next-generation GPUs and SoCs, from RTL preparation through implementation, bring-up, testing, and customer support.
What you'll do
- Prepare RTL, partition designs, and run synthesis, place and route, timing analysis, and bitstream generation.
- Bring up prototypes, improve performance, debug issues, and verify design correctness.
- Release prototypes to customers and coordinate with architecture, design, verification, and software teams.
What they ask for
- BS (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field with 12+ years of experience, or MS with 10+ years of proven experience in FPGA prototyping.
- Understanding of FPGA prototyping architecture, devices, flows, and tools; experience with synthesis, P&R, and timing closure.
- Knowledge of Verilog, System Verilog, and digital design concepts.
- Hands-on lab FPGA debugging experience, including debug tools and equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
Nice to have
- Scripting knowledge (Perl/shell/Tcl); good documentation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience with memory bring-up, CXL/PCIE, USB4/3, or hardware emulation/prototyping of a high-performance processor or SoC.
Pay
196,000 USD - 310,500 USD base salary; 232,000 USD - 368,000 USD base salary
Tools
Synopsys Protocompiler, Siemens VPS, Xilinx Vivado, VCS, Verdi, GDB, Verilog, System Verilog
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