Staff FPGA Engineer
About The Position
The Staff FPGA Engineer leads the architecture, development, integration, and support of FPGA-based platforms used across Cytek's flow cytometry and imaging instrumentation portfolio. The role defines and implements FPGA architectures for real-time signal and image processing, detector acquisition, instrument control, communications, diagnostics, and automated quality control. Working with electrical, software, systems, optics, fluidics, scientific, manufacturing, quality, operations, and service teams, the engineer develops high-performance instrument platforms from concept through commercialization and sustaining support. The role also drives complex technical development across engineering disciplines, establishes reusable FPGA frameworks and verification methods, mentors engineers, and contributes to product quality and lifecycle improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- 10 or more years of FPGA development experience for scientific instrumentation, medical devices, communications systems, industrial systems, or other complex embedded platforms.
- Expert-level experience with Verilog/SystemVerilog design and implementation.
- Strong understanding of digital design principles, including timing analysis, state machine design, pipelining, clock-domain crossing, synchronization, and verification.
- Experience implementing digital signal processing algorithms on FPGA platforms.
- Experience with FPGA simulation, timing closure, hardware debug, and board bring-up.
- Experience implementing high-speed interfaces, including PCIe, Ethernet, memory interfaces, and high-speed converter interfaces.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technically complex projects and influence cross-functional engineering teams.
Nice To Haves
- Master's or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Signal Processing, or a related discipline.
- Experience with flow cytometry, imaging systems, optical instrumentation, or other analytical instrumentation.
- Experience with detector interfaces, data acquisition systems, and real-time measurement platforms.
- Experience with embedded processors and FPGA-based system architectures.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and verification of FPGA-based subsystems using Verilog/SystemVerilog.
- Develop FPGA pipelines for real-time signal processing, image processing, detector acquisition, instrument control, and high-throughput data movement.
- Design interfaces to ADCs, DACs, memory devices, embedded processors, PCIe, Ethernet, SFP+, and related hardware.
- Optimize FPGA designs for throughput, latency, resource utilization, timing closure, and overall system performance.
- Establish reusable FPGA frameworks, IP, and verification methodologies for current and future product platforms.
- Lead FPGA bring-up, debugging, subsystem integration, and system-level testing.
- Translate system requirements into FPGA architectures, interface definitions, and implementation plans.
- Support product development from feasibility and prototyping through verification, manufacturing transfer, and sustaining engineering.
- Troubleshoot complex issues involving detector performance, signal integrity, synchronization, data throughput, and instrument reliability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated instrument solutions.
- Drive FPGA architecture decisions across product and technology development efforts.
- Lead design reviews, technical investigations, and root-cause analysis.
- Mentor engineers in FPGA design, verification, debugging, and development best practices.
- Evaluate new devices, tools, and interface technologies for future platform development.
- Serve as a technical resource for complex FPGA and digital-system challenges.
- Develop verification plans, test strategies, and acceptance criteria for FPGA subsystems.
- Support design reviews, risk management, engineering documentation, and change control.
- Partner with Quality, Manufacturing, Operations, and Service teams to improve product reliability, manufacturability, and serviceability.
- Support field investigations and continuous product improvement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
