Senior FPGA Engineer

Senior FPGA Engineer

Location: Rochester, NY Department: Engineering FLSA Status: Exempt

Vanteon, a Performance Drone Works (PDW) Company, develops wireless, RF, and embedded technology for demanding applications. Our engineers work across hardware, software, firmware, and FPGA design to bring complex systems from concept through implementation and verification.

We are seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to develop FPGA and SoC solutions for customer programs and internal research and development. You will take ownership of assigned designs, contribute to architecture decisions, and work closely with engineers across disciplines to deliver reliable embedded systems. This role combines hands‑on development, problem‑solving, and opportunities to mentor junior team members.

• Design, implement, and verify FPGA logic for embedded systems, including control functions, data interfaces, and real‑time processing.
• Translate system requirements into detailed designs, interface definitions, and verification plans.
• Develop synthesizable VHDL and/or Verilog and reusable FPGA components.
• Perform synthesis and implementation, develop timing constraints, and resolve timing and resource utilization issues.
• Create simulation environments and test benches to verify functionality before hardware integration.
• Perform FPGA configuration, hardware bring‑up, debugging, and integration with embedded processors, firmware, and electronic subsystems.
• Collaborate with RF, hardware, DSP, and embedded software engineers to resolve integration challenges.
• Participate in architecture discussions and design reviews, explaining technical approaches and tradeoffs.
• Maintain technical documentation, including design descriptions, interface specifications, and verification results.
• Provide estimates and communicate progress, technical risks, and issues affecting assigned work.
• Support junior engineers and co‑op students through design guidance, reviews, and troubleshooting.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
• Five or more years of professional FPGA development experience, including delivery of designs through simulation, implementation, and hardware verification.
• Proficiency in VHDL and/or Verilog and a strong understanding of synthesizable design practices.
• Experience with AMD/Xilinx Vivado or comparable FPGA development tools.
• Working knowledge of timing constraints, timing closure, clock-domain crossings, reset strategies, and resource optimization.
• Experience developing FPGA interfaces to processors, memory, peripherals, or other hardware.
• Experience with FPGA configuration, board bring‑up, and debugging using simulation tools, embedded logic analyzers, and laboratory equipment.
• Ability to independently complete assigned development work while collaborating effectively across engineering disciplines.
• Strong analytical, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to meet the onsite ramp‑up and controlled‑data access requirements described below.

• Master's degree in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Experience with AMD/Xilinx Zynq, Ultra Scale+, or comparable FPGA and SoC platforms.
• Experience with Vivado/Vitis, Questa/Model Sim, or Intel Quartus tool chains.
• Experience implementing DSP algorithms, digital communications functions, or software‑defined radio capabilities in FPGA hardware.
• Experience with interfaces such as AXI, SPI, I²C, UART, DMA. Ethernet, PCIe, and DDR memory.
• Familiarity with embedded C/C++, processor-to-FPGA integration, and embedded Linux systems.
• Experience using Python or Tcl to automate development, verification, or testing.
• Familiarity with version control and continuous integration.
• Experience…