Scope and Responsibilities:

Ambiq’s Software and Solutions Team is looking for an FPGA Emulation Engineer with experience in RTL design, verification, and FPGA Emulation platform creation to support Design Verification, Validation, Software Development and System Test teams at the pre-silicon phase. This person will be working within the Software and Solutions Team and closely with the SoC Design team, Design Verification, and Validation Teams.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Implement and debug FPGA designs on a Stratix-10 development board using Intel Quartus design tools.
• Implement and debug FPGA designs on internally developed test platforms using Xilinx Vivado and ISE tools.
• Support a regression test suite consisting of system-level test cases to validate updated FPGA builds.
• Assist development teams in reproduction, triage and debug of issues.

Experience Required:

The FPGA/Emulation Engineer must have experience developing deeply embedded applications for MCU products and testing them on FPGA based emulation platforms.

• BSEE or BSCE with 6-8 years of SoC design, verification, or related work experience and 3+ years of experience of FPGA design, bring-up, debugging, and verification.
• In-depth knowledge of top-down FPGA development process with recent experience with FPGA-based prototyping on a platform comprising one FPGA.
• Expertise with both Intel Quartus Prime Pro and Xilinx Vivado design tools.
• Solid understanding of FPGA tool flows from RTL to bitstream.
• Some familiarity with programming in C language.
• Familiarity with source code control systems (git) required.
• Hands-on lab bring-up experience, debug, and instrument usage.

In addition, the following areas of experience are highly desirable for the position but not strictly required:

• Excellent documentation skills.
• Familiarity with Atlassian project management tools.
• In-depth experience writing Verilog code.
• Experience with Stratix 10 FPGA platforms: boards, debug, performance and throughput tuning.
• Familiarity with Xilinx Artix 7 FPGAs.
• Experience with System Verilog verification environments.
• At least essential hands-on experience with Cadence simulation tools.
• Proven design validation skills.
• ARM Micro-architecture.
• Good analytical skills.
• Experience with Python.