Senior FPGA Engineer

Cohu

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About The Position

Seeking a Senior FPGA design engineer with 7 to 15 years of experience to drive innovative solutions in the Semiconductor Test Group at Cohu. Cohu's semiconductor test solutions span digital, RF, and mixed signal applications. This role is an exciting opportunity to design challenging solutions for semiconductor test instruments, involving all stages of product development from initial concept through release to manufacturing. You will work alongside other FPGA designers and collaborate with software and hardware engineers to deliver compelling FPGA solutions for complex system requirements. This role focuses on FPGA implementation to support key functions across multiple test instrument families, including high-speed PCIe, high-bandwidth DDR memory, waveform generation and digitization, DSP implementation, and precision analog signal control and calibration.

Requirements

• BS, MS, or PhD
• Minimum 7 years of experience with RTL and FPGAs
• Expertise with RTL design and simulation
• Experience with AMD (Xilinx) or Altera tools
• Proficiency using simulation tools such as Modelsim, VCS, or Xcelium
• Verilog/System Verilog language experience
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team and follow through on assignments with minimal supervision
• Attention to detail and high degree of accuracy
• English language proficiency

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of Python
• Working knowledge of C/C++
• Formal verification experience
• Experience with AMD (Xilinx) or Altera SoC devices and toolchains

Responsibilities

• FPGA design using AMD and Intel FPGA devices
• RTL design and simulation
• System-level FPGA architecture definition and translation of instrument requirements into RTL implementations
• High-speed interfaces and memory subsystem design including JESD, PCIe, DMA, and DDR4/5
• Board-level debug, and lab bring-up using standard lab equipment
• Revision control and configuration management
• Collaboration with software and hardware engineers to ensure proper integration of a complete test instrument
• Interaction with other functional groups and coordination with outside design resources
• Generation of technical documentation and reports

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree