Senior FPGA Silicon Validation Engineer

Title: FPGA Silicon Validation Engineer - Senior Role

Location: Hyderabad, India – 100% Onsite Required
Experience : 8+Years

Scope:
Client is seeking FPGA Silicon Validation Engineers across multiple experience levels to support FPGA system validation, high-speed protocol validation, silicon feature enablement, and embedded processor-based subsystem validation. Engineers will work closely with hardware architectures and system-level design implementations to validate silicon features and ensure robust performance. Strong lab debug capability and hands-on FPGA board validation experience are critical.

Necessary Skills:
-Exceptional digital fundamentals
-Hands-on experience in System Design with FPGA devices using relevant FPGA EDA tools
-Experience designing and implementing FPGA-based solutions using Microchip, Xilinx, or Altera FPGAs
-Strong coding skills in Verilog/SystemVerilog, VHDL, and C for embedded processors; ability to maintain existing code
-Experience developing testbenches using Verilog/SystemVerilog and validating designs in simulation using BFM/VIP
-Experience with synthesis, placement constraints, STA constraint definition, and timing closure for high-speed designs
-Validation of FPGA-based implementation on hardware boards
-Embedded firmware development in C/C++
-Strong lab debug experience using oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, embedded and RTL debuggers
-Experience with on-chip debug tools
-Scripting experience in TCL/Perl
-Exposure to version control systems (GitHub, SVN)
-Strong background in silicon validation, failure analysis, and debug
-Understanding of hardware architectures, use models, and system-level design implementations

Additional Skills:
-Basic knowledge of embedded processors such as ARM Cortex-M3 or RISC-V
-Familiarity with AMBA protocols (APB, AHB, AXI, ACE)
-Embedded software C/C++ programming and bare-metal application development
-Board-level debug skills using oscilloscopes, digital analyzers, protocol exercisers, and integrated logic analyzers (e.g., Synopsys Identify, Xilinx Chipscope)

Senior Engineers:
-Strong FPGA silicon validation experience
-Hands-on validation in one or more protocols: PCIe Gen4/5, DDR4/5, 100G/50G/40G/25G/10G Ethernet, USB 3.2, JESD204C, 1588 PTP, MIPI, MACSEC
-Experience with high-speed memory interfaces (DDR4/5, LPDDR4/5, QDR II+/IV)
-Embedded processor and peripheral validation (SPI, I3C, UART, NOC, Trace, USB)
-Developing testbenches and validating complex subsystem-level use cases
-Strong C programming experience
-Validating FPGA configuration and security features