What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Engineer, FPGA and Integrated Circuits Design position at Shure?
Senior FPGA Engineer - Join Us on the Wireless Frontier!
Do you speak fluent FPGA? Do you get a thrill out of turning complex ideas into real, working hardware? If so, we want you on our team!
We’re looking for a Senior FPGA Engineer to help shape the brains behind our next generation of wireless audio products. You’ll take projects from big idea ➜ beautiful design ➜ production‑ready reality , working alongside a crew of talented engineers who love solving hard problems and building seriously cool tech.
🎧 What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll work on tech that pushes the boundaries of wireless performance, audio quality, and real‑world reliability. If you want to build products that people use, love, and rely on every day—this is your playground.
This position will be hybrid based out of our Niles, IL HQ!
Responsibilities
Who We Are
Shure’s mission is to be the most trusted audio brand worldwide – and for over a century, our Core Values have aligned us to be just that. Founded in 1925, we are a leading global manufacturer of audio equipment known for quality, reliability, and durability. We engineer microphones, headphones, wireless audio systems, conferencing systems, and more. And quality doesn’t stop at our products. Our talented teams strive for perfection and innovate every chance they get. We offer an Associate-first culture, flexible work arrangements, and opportunity for all.
Shure is headquartered in United States. We have more than 35 regional sales offices, engineering hubs, distribution centers and manufacturing facilities throughout the Americas, EMEA, and Asia.
Join Shure and Amplify Your Impact. Explore our unique culture and learn the key pillars that define our legacy of excellence.
THE MIX MATTERS
Don’t check off every box in the job requirements? No problem! We recognize that every professional journey is unique and are committed to providing an equitable candidate experience for all prospective Shure Associates. If you’re excited about this role, believe you’ve got the skills to be successful, and share our passion for creating an inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible work environment, then apply!
PAY TRANSPARENCY
Shure offers a competitive compensation structure that is reviewed annually to attract, hire, and retain the industry’s top talent. Base salaries vary based on qualifications, geography, experience, and expertise in each respective discipline. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum base salary for the opportunity. The base salary for this position ranges fr om $113,000 to $181,000. If your salary expectations do not align, still apply as we are often flexible on the seniority of posted positions. All positions also include an award-winning benefits package.
WE GOT YOU - Our Benefits
At Shure, we prioritize the well-being of our Associates. We offer competitive rewards packages to full-time and part-time Associates working 24 or more hours a week that address physical, mental, financial, and overall well-being. Our benefits include comprehensive healthcare, mental health and retirement savings plans, generous paid time off programs, employee discounts, professional development opportunities, work-life balance initiatives, employee recognition programs, and volunteering/community involvement opportunities. To learn more, check out our Benefits At A Glance .
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Do you speak fluent FPGA? Do you get a thrill out of turning complex ideas into real, working hardware? If so, we want you on our team!
We’re looking for a Senior FPGA Engineer to help shape the brains behind our next generation of wireless audio products. You’ll take projects from big idea ➜ beautiful design ➜ production‑ready reality , working alongside a crew of talented engineers who love solving hard problems and building seriously cool tech.
🎧 What You’ll Be Doing
- Designing FPGA and SoC magic that powers cutting‑edge wireless audio
- Bringing concepts to life - from whiteboard scribbles to shipping hardware
- Validating, integrating, and fine‑tuning digital designs that make our products sing
- Collaborating with cross‑functional wizards across hardware, software, and systems
You’ll work on tech that pushes the boundaries of wireless performance, audio quality, and real‑world reliability. If you want to build products that people use, love, and rely on every day—this is your playground.
This position will be hybrid based out of our Niles, IL HQ!
Responsibilities
- Design efficient high-speed digital logic modules for control, status, and processing using VHDL and Verilog.
- Integrate cutting-edge wireless and audio processing subsystems onto hardware.
- Use Python for modeling, scripting, and various aspects of the design process.
- Utilize AI tools for efficient code development, troubleshooting, and automation
- Validate functionality using RTL simulation tools.
- Specify FPGA design constraints (pinouts, IO types, timing constraints, &c.).
- Coordinate with other disciplines to define and integrate processing systems
- Execute FPGA toolchain (synthesis, place & route, static timing analysis) to produce bitstreams.
- Advocate for automation and repeatability by leveraging scripting (e.g., python).
- Maintain proper revision control utilizing git.
- Integrate, capture, and analyze product telemetry from FPGAs
- Bachelor’s degree in EE or related field
- Minimum of 5 years of experience
- Comprehensive knowledge of FPGA logic design and simulation/validation tools
- Experience with Versal, Zynq, and other embedded processor architectures
- Experience with implementation tradeoffs to meet resource, processing and timing constraints.
- Experience with Verilog/VHDL
- Experience with Python
- Experience with version control systems such as git
- Familiarity with digital signal processing, wireless concepts, and audio concepts
- Comfortable with Linux environment
Who We Are
Shure’s mission is to be the most trusted audio brand worldwide – and for over a century, our Core Values have aligned us to be just that. Founded in 1925, we are a leading global manufacturer of audio equipment known for quality, reliability, and durability. We engineer microphones, headphones, wireless audio systems, conferencing systems, and more. And quality doesn’t stop at our products. Our talented teams strive for perfection and innovate every chance they get. We offer an Associate-first culture, flexible work arrangements, and opportunity for all.
Shure is headquartered in United States. We have more than 35 regional sales offices, engineering hubs, distribution centers and manufacturing facilities throughout the Americas, EMEA, and Asia.
Join Shure and Amplify Your Impact. Explore our unique culture and learn the key pillars that define our legacy of excellence.
THE MIX MATTERS
Don’t check off every box in the job requirements? No problem! We recognize that every professional journey is unique and are committed to providing an equitable candidate experience for all prospective Shure Associates. If you’re excited about this role, believe you’ve got the skills to be successful, and share our passion for creating an inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible work environment, then apply!
PAY TRANSPARENCY
Shure offers a competitive compensation structure that is reviewed annually to attract, hire, and retain the industry’s top talent. Base salaries vary based on qualifications, geography, experience, and expertise in each respective discipline. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum base salary for the opportunity. The base salary for this position ranges fr om $113,000 to $181,000. If your salary expectations do not align, still apply as we are often flexible on the seniority of posted positions. All positions also include an award-winning benefits package.
WE GOT YOU - Our Benefits
At Shure, we prioritize the well-being of our Associates. We offer competitive rewards packages to full-time and part-time Associates working 24 or more hours a week that address physical, mental, financial, and overall well-being. Our benefits include comprehensive healthcare, mental health and retirement savings plans, generous paid time off programs, employee discounts, professional development opportunities, work-life balance initiatives, employee recognition programs, and volunteering/community involvement opportunities. To learn more, check out our Benefits At A Glance .
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Salary : $113,000 - $181,000