Lead FPGA Design Engineer

Overview

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we partner with leading brands to provide engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience and a global network of over 100 sites, we combine scale with local expertise to deliver scalable and customized solutions. We are committed to sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and support diverse communities.

• Lead FPGA design, development, integration, and debugging for complex server, storage, networking, AI infrastructure, and rack-level platforms.
• Own FPGA architecture, RTL implementation, verification readiness, hardware bring-up, and cross-functional issue resolution to meet system requirements, schedule, manufacturability, and customer quality targets.
• Provide technical leadership: conduct design reviews, manage requirement traceability, and act as the liaison between cross-functional partners, system architects, and program managers.
• Lead hardware validation campaigns on PCBs using lab equipment (digital oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, function generators).
• Plan and manage technical, cost, and schedule objectives; monitor technical risks and manage configuration.
• Investigate and resolve complex FPGA, hardware, and firmware integration issues during bring-up, validation, manufacturing ramp, and customer escalation.
• Collaborate with Electrical, BIOS, BMC, Systems, Validation, Manufacturing, and customer teams to resolve cross-domain issues and align technical decisions.
• Support FPGA verification readiness, lab debug, hardware validation, and release criteria by ensuring traceability and disciplined issue management.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to reusable design practices, coding standards, documentation quality, and engineering best practices.
• Communicate technical direction, risks, tradeoffs, milestone health, and resolution plans to leadership, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field;
  Master’s degree preferred.
• 5–10 years of relevant experience in FPGA design, programmable logic development, hardware integration, or related platform engineering work.
• Strong expertise in FPGA design flows, RTL development, simulation, synthesis, timing analysis, constraints, and lab-based debugging.
• Experience with FPGA tool chains and devices from vendors such as AMD/Xilinx, Intel/Altera, or equivalent platforms.
• Strong understanding of standard digital interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, PCIe, JESD) and complex compute platforms (server, storage, networking, accelerators).
• Ability to lead technical decisions, perform root-cause analysis, and align multiple engineering disciplines toward successful execution.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to explain complex programmable logic issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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