Sr. FPGA Design 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 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.

Key job responsibilities
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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor's degree in EE, CE, or CS
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
Experience with industry standard tools and scripting languages (Bash / Python / Perl) for automation

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Masters / PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field
7+ years or more of FPGA design or FPGA-based ASIC prototyping
Experience with ARM and various DSP ISA
Experience debugging system-level issues
Good programming skills in C/C++ and scripting skills in Python, Tcl, and/or Perl
Working experience with high performance industry standard buses like AMBA AXI4
Experience with post-silicon validation
Experience with embedded software
Experience with transaction level modeling
Experience with industry standard I/O interfaces
Experience with ASIC prototyping on FPGAs
Experience with Synopsys HAPS
Knowledge of SoC architecture
Excellent verbal and written communication skills


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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $143,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.