FPGA Engineer – Xilinx / RISC-V

Great Opportunity to work on cutting edge RISC-V and FPGA based compute platforms!

We are seeking an experienced FPGA Engineer with deep expertise in Xilinx FPGAs and hands on experience integrating and mapping SiFive RISC-V cores onto FPGA platforms. The ideal candidate will play a key role in prototyping, validating and optimizing SoC architectures for high performance and energy efficient computing platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and debug FPGA based systems using Xilinx FPGA platforms (UltraScale / UltraScale / Versal is preferred.
• Map, integrate and validate SiFive RISC-V cores into FPGA designs.
• Customize and configure RISC-V cores, interconnects, memory subsystems, and peripherals.
• Develop and optimize FPGA designs using Vivado, Vitis, and related Xilinx toolchains.
• Implement AXI-based interconnects and manage clocking, resets, and timing closure.
• Perform functional verification, synthesis, place & route, and timing analysis.
• Debug hardware and software interaction using simulation tools, logic analyzers, and on-chip debug features.
• Collaborate with architecture, software and ASIC teams to transition FPGA prototypes to silicon.
• Optimize designs for performance, power, and area (PPA).
• Document architecture, design decisions, and validation results.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in FPGA design and development.
• Strong hands on experience with Xilinx FPGAs and toolchains using Vivado, Vitis, SDK.
• Proven experience mapping or integrating SiFive RISC-V cores into FPGA designs.
• Strong proficiency in Verilog/System Verilog and/or VHDL.
• Experience with AXI, AHB, and other standard SoC bus protocols.
• Solid understanding of SoC architecture, memory controllers and peripherals.
• Experience with FPGA based system bring up and debugging.
• Familiarity with Linux or RTOS bring-up on RISC-V platforms.
• Experience with RISC-V customization and extensions is a plus.
• Knowledge of FPGA prototyping for ASIC development.
• Experience with PCIe, Ethernet, DDR, HBM or high-speed interfaces is a plus.
• Familiarity with UVM, simulation and formal verification.
• Scripting experience with Python, Tcl, Bash for build and automation flows is a plus.
• Exposure to power optimization and performance tuning on FPGA platforms.