Senior FPGA Engineer

Senior FPGA Engineer

📍 Location: Raanana, Israel

🕒 Employment type: Full-time

The Role

We are looking for a Senior FPGA Engineer to join our FPGA team and take a leading technical role in the architecture, design, implementation, and verification of complex FPGA-based products.

This is a hands-on position with end-to-end technical ownership, from architecture and RTL development through simulation, FPGA implementation, system integration, and board bring-up.

You will work closely with hardware, software, and system engineers, influence key architectural decisions, and see your designs deployed in real products in the field.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement complex digital logic in Verilog, from specifications and microarchitecture through RTL development and implementation in a working device.

• Develop solutions based on AMD Versal adaptive SoCs, including the selection, configuration, and integration of IP cores and hard blocks.

• Own the complete Vivado implementation flow, including synthesis, constraints, place and route, timing closure, resource optimization, and on-chip debugging using ILA.

• Develop and maintain simulation environments and testbenches and perform functional verification using ModelSim and Questa.

• Review hardware schematics, define FPGA pinouts and interfaces, and support board bring-up, system integration, and hardware debugging alongside the hardware team.

• Write and review technical documentation, including design specifications, interface definitions, verification plans, and test reports.

• Investigate and resolve system-level issues in the lab using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and protocol analyzers.

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary hardware, software, and system teams throughout the product development lifecycle.

• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, problem-solving, and guidance to other team members.

Requirements: Must Have

• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent field.

• At least 6 years of hands-on FPGA design experience in a product-development environment.

• Deep proficiency in synthesizable Verilog RTL design.

• Proven experience developing with AMD Versal adaptive SoCs.

• Hands-on experience with high-speed interfaces and technologies, including:

• Multi-gigabit transceivers, such as GTY and GTM

• PCI Express

• Ethernet

• DDR3, DDR4, and DDR5

• Strong, proven experience with the Vivado toolchain, including timing constraints, timing analysis, and timing closure.

• Solid verification experience using ModelSim and/or Questa, including testbench development, simulation, waveform analysis, and debugging.

• Ability to read and review hardware schematics, define FPGA interfaces and pinouts, and work closely with board designers.

• Practical laboratory experience with board bring-up, integration, and hardware debugging.

• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to work independently, take technical ownership, and collaborate effectively across hardware, software, and system teams.

• Good written and spoken English.

Advantages

• Practical experience using AI-assisted tools throughout the FPGA development lifecycle,

including:

• System architecture and microarchitecture definition

• RTL development, analysis, and code review

• Testbench development and verification planning

• Simulation, waveform analysis, and debugging

• Timing-closure analysis and implementation-flow optimization

• Technical documentation

• Scripting and workflow automation

• Ability to use AI tools effectively while independently reviewing and validating generated outputs for functional correctness, synthesizability, timing implications, and compliance with design requirements.

• Embedded or SoC development experience with Versal or Zynq, including ARM processing systems, AXI infrastructure, PetaLinux, and bare-metal software and drivers.

• Experience with Tcl scripting and FPGA build-flow automation.

• Experience using Vitis.

• Familiarity with data-communication protocols and systems, particularly PON and Ethernet.

• Experience with network-testing equipment and communication-system testing environments.

Why Join Us?

• Take technical ownership of challenging FPGA designs from architecture through deployment.

• Work with advanced AMD Versal technologies and high-speed communication interfaces.

• Collaborate directly with multidisciplinary engineering teams.

• Develop products that move beyond simulation and operate in real systems in the field.

How to Apply

Send their CV to jobs@tracespan.com.