# Senior FPGA Engineer

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Moreira
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: employee
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: SNPS
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478

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## Description

Synopsys software engineers are key enablers in the world of Electronic Design Automation (EDA), developing and maintaining software used in chip design, verification and manufacturing.

As a Senior FPGA Engineer at Synopsys, you will contribute to FPGA solutions that enable advanced semiconductor development workflows. You bring extensive experience designing FPGA solutions that meet rigorous performance and reliability standards in production environments.

**Responsibilities**

- Prototype and optimize high-performance PCIe-based designs on FPGA platforms using Vivado, driving the implementation flow through synthesis, place and route, timing closure, and hardware bring-up

- Simulate and verify PCIe-based prototype designs using industry-standard verification methodologies such as UVM, ensuring correct functionality and behavior prior to FPGA implementation and hardware bring-up

- Perform timing analysis and optimization across multiple clock domains, resolving setup and hold violations and ensuring designs meet performance targets

- Collaborate with hardware, software, and verification teams to define requirements, evaluate design tradeoffs, and deliver FPGA solutions that meet project goals

- Develop and execute test plans to validate functionality, performance, and reliability of FPGA prototypes in real-world conditions

- Participate in industry events, including PCI-SIG Compliance Workshops, to perform official compliance testing of PCIe prototypes and ensure conformance with applicable PCIe specifications and industry standards

- Debug and resolve hardware, protocol, and system-level issues identified during PCIe compliance testing, working across the FPGA prototype and test environment to achieve successful compliance results

**The Impact You Will Have**

- Enable faster product development cycles by delivering reliable, high-performance FPGA prototypes that allow hardware and software teams to validate complex PCIe designs ahead of silicon availability

- Identify integration, functional and implementation issues early through FPGA prototyping

- Strengthen Synopsys' reputation for technical excellence by attending and getting certifications at industry compliance events

- Improve cross-team productivity by providing clear documentation, responsive support, and designs that integrate cleanly with adjacent systems

- Drive continuous improvement by bringing new techniques, tools, and standards into the team's design and verification processes

**Requirements**

- Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience

- Ideally 8+ years of FPGA design and development experience, with a strong track record of shipping working designs

- Deep proficiency in Verilog and RTL design, including experience with complex state machines, pipelines, and multi-clock domain architectures

- Strong command of Vivado or similar FPGA toolchains, including synthesis, implementation, and timing closure workflows

- Solid understanding of digital design fundamentals: clock domain crossings, metastability, timing constraints, and static timing analysis

- Experience with high-speed interfaces such as PCIe or Ethernet, including protocol-level understanding and debug

- Experience with scripting languages like Python or Tcl for automation and tooling is a plus

**Benefits**

- Comprehensive medical and healthcare plans that work for you and your family

- Time away: company holidays, ETO and FTO Programs

- Family support: maternity and paternity leave, parenting resources, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and more

- ESPP: purchase Synopsys common stock at a 15% discount, with a 24-month look-back

- Retirement plans: save for your future with our retirement plans that vary by region and country

- Competitive salaries

## Skills

### Required
- FPGA design
- Vivado
- Verilog
- RTL design
- PCIe
- UVM
- Python
- Tcl

### Nice to have
- scripting languages
- high-speed interfaces
- Ethernet

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