Positron
FPGA Design Engineer, Senior
$200K–$250K
Remote (United States) · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in FPGA and/or ASIC design and implementation.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must be currently authorized to work in the U.S.; no new visa sponsorship is available, but H-1B transfers may be facilitated for eligible candidates.
About the job
Own FPGA designs from microarchitecture through implementation, validation, and system bring-up for networking and digital logic in AI inference platforms.
What you'll do
- Develop and release FPGA designs, including RTL, physical implementation, timing closure, simulation, and lab validation.
- Design and support networking functions for FPGA and ASIC targets, and build FPGA prototypes to validate architectural choices.
- Bring up FPGA, firmware, and software systems and optimize trade-offs across cost, size, power, performance, and features.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in FPGA and/or ASIC design and implementation.
- Hands-on proficiency in SystemVerilog RTL coding.
- Experience delivering and supporting multiple customer-shipped FPGAs or ASICs; direct experience with high-end Intel and Xilinx (AMD) FPGAs.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI workloads, particularly large language model inference.
- Familiarity with cocotb or other Python-based logic verification frameworks.
Pay
$200,000 – $250,000 USD base salary
Tools
SystemVerilog, Intel, Xilinx (AMD), cocotb, Python
AI focus
Develop FPGA designs and prototypes for AI inference platforms, including networking and system functions supporting large language model inference workloads.
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