SUMMARY
Firefly is seeking an experienced FPGA RTL Design Engineer with 3+ years of direct professional Verilog hardware design experience. This role focuses on designing, implementing, verifying, and optimizing custom digital logic in the FPGA fabric of Microchip PolarFire SoCs for high-reliability embedded systems.
Key aspects of the work include RTL development, synthesis, timing closure, testbench creation, and integration of custom IP blocks with the integrated RISC-V processor subsystem. This is a hardware design role • candidates should have meaningful hands-on experience taking designs from RTL through implementation on FPGA hardware.
You will work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment to deliver robust firmware for mission-critical space applications in industries such as aerospace, defense, and industrial automation.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design, develop, and verify FPGA logic using VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog for Microchip PolarFire SoCs, including programmable logic, DSP blocks, and high-speed interfaces (e.g., PCIe, Ethernet, SERDES).
- Create and optimize IP cores and custom peripherals/accelerators tailored to PolarFire's architecture.
- Integrate FPGA firmware with embedded processors (e.g., RISC-V cores) and collaborate with software teams to support Board Support Packages (BSPs) and Linux kernel drivers.
- Build RTL verification environments with testbenches using UVM methodologies for design correctness and coverage.
- Perform functional verification, simulation, regression testing, and coverage analysis (e.g., functional, code, assertion).
- Conduct synthesis, place-and-route, timing analysis, and debugging using tools like Libero SoC, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes.
- Implement radiation-tolerant and fault-tolerant designs for space-grade applications.
- Develop automated test benches and CI pipelines for verification, including hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- Contribute to system architecture, security, and real-time processing requirements.
- Participate in code reviews, documentation, and stay updated on FPGA technologies and open-source contributions.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Required:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
- 3• 5 years of professional RTL design experience using Verilog for FPGAs
- Demonstrated experience with the full FPGA design flow: RTL coding, simulation, synthesis, place-and-route, and static timing analysis
- Proficiency with at least one major FPGA tool suite (Xilinx Vivado or Intel Quartus)
- Solid understanding of synchronous digital design, clock domain crossing, finite state machines, and resource/timing optimization
Preferred:
Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.
