FPGA Engineer
Bolt Graphics
Remote (United States); Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Full-time
5 hours ago
Digital Design & SoC Architecture
$150,000 - $220,000 USD yearly
About the role
We are seeking a highly skilled FPGA Engineer who is fluent in System Verilog and is an expert user of Xilinx FPGAs.
What you'll do
- Develop and design FPGA systems using System Verilog
- Debug and troubleshoot issues in the design
- Utilize Xilinx Vivado for FPGA development
- Set up and analyze signals using ILA for debugging purposes
- Document RTL using standard practices
- Communicate with team members across different time zones
What you'll need
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
- Programming: System Verilog, C/C++
- Experience with the Xilinx Versal platform
- Experience with the Xilinx Alveo platform
- Experience with QSFP+ fiber communication and encoding strategies
- Experience with waveform analysis for debugging and optimization
- Experience with GTY/GTM
- Experience with using and creating custom interfaces using AXI protocol
- Experience with fixing timing violations through constraints and logic critical path analysis
- Ability to create testbenches to verify functionality of RTL
- Experience with advanced debugging features and signal analysis via ILA
- Ability to read technical documents/standards and design hardware to follow those standards
- Startup experience
More semiconductor jobs: RTL design jobs
Market context
This role has been open 88 days — well above the 64-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
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Open roles in category
1096
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Median days open
64 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$189k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Bolt Graphics | All employers we track in this specialty (1096 roles · 104 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 1096 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 16 | 3525 · 120 employers |
| Median days open | 141 d | 64 d (+77 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $189k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 139 open roles · median 73 d
- AMD · 94 open roles · median 50 d
- Synopsys · 90 open roles · median 51 d
- NVIDIA · 47 open roles · median 64 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 45 open roles · median 107 d
- Analog Devices · 41 open roles · median 54 d
How we counted: 1096 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 104 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 8 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.
Bolt Graphics
Remote (United States); Sunnyvale, CA, United States
On-site
Full-time
$150,000 - $220,000 USD yearly
5 hours ago