FPGA Verification Engineer

About the Company

Why Hiring

• Need to enhance FPGA verification capabilities
• Support rapid avionics development.

End Product

• Verification environments for AMD (Xilinx) FPGA/SoC designs in flight-critical avionics.

Tech/Domain Environment

• SystemVerilog, UVM, SVA
• Linux
• DO-254, avionics standards
• Questa, VCS, Xcelium, Vivado

About the Role

Title

• FPGA Verification Engineer

Location

• Costa Mesa, CA onsite

Travel

• 0% travel

Contract

• Full-time

Start

• ASAP

Interview Process

• Phone screen
• Technical interview
• Final interview

Responsibilities

Job Duties

• Architect UVM verification environments for AMD FPGA/SoC designs.
• Develop verification plans with traceability to requirements.
• Author SystemVerilog Assertions for compliance checks.
• Build functional coverage models and drive code coverage analysis.
• Develop constrained-random test sequences for corner-case bugs.
• Establish regression suites, tracking coverage metrics.
• Debug failures using waveform tools and simulation logs.
• Collaborate on RTL reviews and bug resolution.
• Support hardware validation and board bring-up.
• Author verification closure reports and coverage summaries.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering. (Preferred)

Required Skills

Must Haves

• 2+ years FPGA/ASIC verification experience in production.
• Proficient in SystemVerilog, UVM methodology, and SVA in production.
• Experience with industry simulators (Questa, VCS, Xcelium, or Vivado) in production.
• Git-based workflows including code review in production.
• Linux development environments in production.
• Eligible for U.S. Secret security clearance.

Preferred Skills

Nice to Haves

• 5+ years FPGA/ASIC verification experience.
• Master’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
• Experience with DO-254 and avionics verification standards.
• Familiarity with SVUnit or equivalent unit-testing frameworks.
• Experience with digital interfaces: Ethernet, PCIe, JESD204C, MIL-STD-1553, SPI.

Security/Clearance

• Eligible to obtain U.S. Secret security clearance.