Staff FPGA Engineer
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At [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk], we are developing disruptive technologies for AI/ML and HPC networking that will revolutionise Data Centers. These technologies will speed up training and inference while dramatically reducing energy consumption for a sustainable future.
We are looking for an experienced FPGA Engineer to complement our existing team, bringing deep industry experience and strong technical expertise. The role will be to develop high-speed network interfaces between xPUs and our proprietary network. The successful candidate will deliver scale-up and scale-out xPU interface solutions, working iteratively through a series of prototypes to ultimately deliver a production-grade solutions. Responsibilities will include microarchitecture definition, implementation, and testing, as well as interfacing with software.
Responsibilities:
- Microarchitecture definition in collaboration with the broader team
- Preparing detailed technical documentation and presentations to stakeholders
- RTL Implementation, synthesis, timing closure
- Unit verification planning and simulation testing using SystemVerilog
- Delivering and validating FPGA-based lab setups for customer trials
Skills & Experience:
- Extensive hands-on industry experience of FPGA design for GPU/CPU interfacing and networking at 100Gbps and above
- Experience of many of the following: UALink, NVLink, PCIe, RDMA, CXL
- Comprehensive understanding of clock domain crossing techniques
- Strong knowledge of FPGA tool flows (synthesis, partitioning, place&route, timing analysis)
- Excellent skills in SystemVerilog/Verilog/VHDL
- Scripting and automation, such as TCL and Python
- Experience using Questa, VCS
- Experience using Quartus/Vivado/Vitis
- Experience in host software interfaces and device drivers
- Experience with embedded systems, including soft processors (Microblaze/Nios/RISC V) and SoC programming
- Experience with high-performance FPGA devices: Xilinx Versal Premium or Intel Agilex 7
- A humble attitude and good communication skills
- Bachelor or Master degree in electronics engineering, physics, or other relevant fields or experience within the industry