Sr. FPGA Prototyping Engineer, Silicon and Systems Group

Sr. FPGA Prototyping Engineer, Silicon and Systems Group

The Amazon Devices team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including the best-selling Kindle family of products. We have also produced ground-breaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo, and the Astro personal robot. What will you help us create? As an FPGA Engineer, you will be part of an advanced architecture team that is exploring new hardware designs to improve our devices.

In this role, you will be responsible for defining the FPGA bring up environment for ASIC and system prototyping. You will participate in the design, verification and bring-up of IPs in FPGA by writing relevant scripts, debugging code, test benches, test harnesses, and otherwise interacting with the extended team. You will be responsible for the lab bring-up of these blocks.

You will work closely with multi-disciplinary groups including Product Design, Audio Technology, Computer Vision, Hardware Engineering, and Software Engineering, to architect and implement FPGA solutions that enable development of world-class hardware devices.

• Design world class hardware and software
• Communicate and work with team members across multiple disciplines
• Deliver IP's in FPGA platforms for software teams
• Create and enhance verification of these IP's by leveraging the FPGA environment
• Identify and write all types tests for stimulus and corner-cases
• Debug tests with design engineers to deliver functionally correct design blocks

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• Experience with industry standard tools and scripting languages (Python or Perl) for automation
• 5+ years of FPGA design or FPGA-based ASIC prototyping
• Experience with FPGA build flows
• Experience with writing and debugging bring-up / test code for embedded systems (C/C++)
• Experience in prototype bring-up with strong hardware debug skills

• Master's degree or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
• Experience in system-level debugging
• Experience working with high-performance industry standard buses like AMBA AXI4
• Experience with post-silicon validation
• Experience with embedded systems
• Experience with transaction level modeling
• Knowledge of SoC architecture
• 7+ years or more of FPGA design or FPGA-based ASIC prototyping
• Experience with ARM and various DSP ISA
• Good programming skills in C/C++ and scripting skills in Python, Tcl, and/or Perl
• Experience with industry standard I/O interfaces
• Experience with ASIC prototyping on FPGAs
• Experience with Synopsys HAPS

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