FPGA Engineer (Contract role)
DornerWorks, a leader in embedded engineering design services, is seeking an experienced Contract FPGA Engineer to join our talented team. As one of just a few Premier Members of Xilinx’s Alliance Program, our FPGA team provides expertise in programmable logic designs targeting SoCs, FPGAs, and CPLDs for industry leaders throughout the country. You will contribute to all aspects of the electronic design project life cycle; research, planning, design, architecture, and testing. If you know how to deliver, are excited by continually honing your technical skills, and long for the opportunity to build solutions for challenging problems, this is the position for you.
Working at DornerWorks is a little different than most companies. We get the opportunity to work with a variety of customers in nearly every industry to help them produce standout products. Our customers engage us to develop all or part of new product development or existing product rework. You will work with our expert FPGA team and our embedded engineers to produce amazing products. Then we do it over again for a new customer or project and often with a new project team.
Through the ideas of our employees, we’ve created a culture where not only do our employees have fun, they look forward to coming to work as well! From snacks to nerf guns to core hours to work life balance to dwSocial events, we continue to make DornerWorks culture a fun and fulfilling place to work. Do you see yourself in a culture like this?
What DornerWorks has for you:
- Opportunity to work on a contract basis with flexible hours.
- Diverse, engaging, collaborative and challenging work.
- Continuous learning. Work multiple diverse projects each year – different technologies, products, and industries.
- Work from home or in-person, while doing what you love.
- Competitive compensation.
- Healthy work/life balance. At DornerWorks’ that is not just an empty slogan; it is one of our core values.
- Organized social events, both onsite and virtual. We promise you’ll have fun!
- Supportive team – not a cut throat environment but supportive and encouraging.
What you will be doing:
- Develop architecture and detailed specifications for innovative electronic products.
- Develop detailed designs to meet customer requirements and specifications.
- Collaborate with the team and customers to deliver stand out FPGA solutions.
- Conduct testing and analysis, including simulation in Mentor QuestaSim and Vivado Xsim.
- Focus on continuous improvement for technology, tools and processes.
What we like to see:
- Experience with high speed design, including DDR3, SERDES, Gigabit Transceivers, PCle, Ethernet, etc.
- Digital Signal Processing design for FPGA devices, both programming and testing.
- Model-Based Design using tools such as Matlab/Simulink, Xilinx System Generator or Intel/Altera DSP Builder.
- Experience with the latest SoC devices such as Xilinx Zynq and Zynq UltraScale+.
- Experience with IP development and evaluation, integration and validation.
What we need from you:
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) or Computer Engineering (BSCE) (or BSECE).
- 3+ years’ experience developing FPGA designs from concept definition to production.
- Proficiency in FPGA architecture, design, modeling, simulation, and verification in VHDL, Verilog, and/or System Verilog a plus.
- Proficient working in the Linux environment.
- Solid understanding of digital design principles and synchronous design techniques.
- Working knowledge of the C/C++ , Python and Tcl.
- Proficiency with FPGA design tools such as Vivado.
- Collaborative spirit to engage and innovate with the DornerWorks team and customers.
- Knack for communication, both verbally and in writing, to interface across the organization and with technical partners and customers.
- Working knowledge of circuit design and layout techniques, including analog, digital, programmable logic, and microcontroller technologies.
- Strong technical writing.
- Unrestricted right to work in the US without requiring sponsorship.
Salary information:
The annualized salary ranges below represent hiring guidelines. DornerWorks considers multiple factors when determining base compensation including experience and specialization of skills.
Early career engineer: $62,000 - $95,000
Mid – level career engineer: $95,000 - $118,000
Advanced career engineer: $118,000 - $156,000
DornerWorks’ employees enjoy our strong commitment to work-life integrations with 40-hour work weeks, a remote/hybrid work environment and many other work-life integration perks. In addition, employees my elect health and wellness benefits that meet the needs of themselves and their dependents.
DornerWorks is an equal opportunity employer and participates in the E-Verify program. EEO/M/F/Disabled/Veteran.
DornerWorks believes a diverse workplace yields better ideas and outcomes and we are committed to promoting diversity of experience, perspectives, and capabilities. Each individual makes a unique contribution to our company. We recognize that diversity is critical to our success. DornerWorks proudly supports a culture of inclusion that encourages a work environment that honors diverse opinions. Employees can thrive here, and know their individual skills, abilities and viewpoints are honored
This facility operates under International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and therefore, any person hired must demonstrate with verifiable documentation that they are either: (i) a U.S. Citizen; (ii) an active Green Card Holder; or (iii) a “Protected Person” as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324 (b)(a)(3).
