Senior FPGA Engineer

Overview

Keysight is a mission-critical design enablement partner for organizations solving the world’s most complex engineering challenges. With deep engineering expertise and leading design, emulation, and test solutions, our ~16,800 employees help customers in over 100 countries accelerate innovation across communications, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace and defense, semiconductor, and artificial intelligence markets. Learn more about what we do.

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Responsibilities

We are looking for a highly skilled FPGA Engineer to join our R&D organization. The ideal candidate will drive the design, implementation, verification, and optimization of FPGA-based solutions for high‑performance systems. You will work closely with cross-functional teams (hardware, software, validation) to deliver robust, scalable, and maintainable designs for next‑generation products.

 Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize digital logic using VHDL.
• Develop FPGA architectures for high-speed, real-time systems.
• Perform simulation, debugging, and verification using industry-standard tools.
• Implement interfaces and protocols such as PCIe, Ethernet, DDR, SPI, I²C, JESD204B/C.
• Work with Xilinx/AMD (Vivado, Versal) or similar environments.
• Collaborate with hardware teams to integrate FPGA designs into boards and systems.
• Work with software engineers to define FPGA–CPU/SoC interfaces.
• Develop documentation and participate in design reviews.
• Support bring-up, debugging, and validation in the lab using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of workflows, automation, and CI/CD for FPGA builds.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Telecommunications, or equivalent.
• 3+ years of experience in FPGA design
• Strong proficiency in VHDL
• Experience with Xilinx or FPGA toolchains (Vivado, Quartus, ModelSim, Mentor Graphics, etc.).
• Solid understanding of:
  • Digital logic design
  • Timing constraints and closure
  • Synthesis and place & route flows
• Experience with version control (Git) and collaborative development workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Python, C/C++, or Linux driver development for FPGA-integrated systems.
• Good written and spoken English; ability to produce clear technical documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Xilinx Versal, Zynq Ultrascale+, or SoC FPGA architectures.
• Experience with high‑speed interfaces (Aurora, JESD, PCIe Gen3/4/5, 10/25/100G Ethernet).
• Experience with MATLAB/Simulink, DSP blocks, or algorithm acceleration.
• Familiarity with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or automated FPGA build systems.
• Experience with embebedd Linux systems.
• Familiarity with AMD versal AIE

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to work in cross-functional, fast-paced engineering teams.
• Attention to detail and high-quality standards.
• Proactive, autonomous, and curious mindset.

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