FPGA Engineer
Lincoln Electric
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Euclid • Ohio • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $105,560 - $156,521 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Develop and maintain VHDL-based designs for control, signal processing, and communication subsystems.
- Architect modular and reusable IP blocks for integration into complex FPGA systems.
- Collaborate with hardware and software engineers to define functional requirements and partition logic between hardware, firmware, and software.
- Perform static timing analysis and achieve timing closure across multiple clock domains.
- Optimize designs for performance, area, and power using synthesis and place-and-route tools.
- Design and implement AXI-based interfaces to ARM processors and other embedded subsystems.
- Integrate FPGA logic with SoC platforms and manage data flow between programmable logic and software.
- Develop testbenches and simulation environments using VHDL.
- Support hardware bring-up and lab testing using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and JTAG tools.
- Document design specifications, test results, and performance metrics.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
- Level III: 5+ years of relevant experience
- Level IV: 8+ years of relevant experience
- Proficiency with AMD/Xilinx, Intel/Altera, and/or Microchip/Microsemi FPGA platforms
- Strong understanding of timing analysis, constraints, and closure techniques
- Experience with AXI interconnects and integration with ARM-based processing systems
- Familiarity with simulation and verification tools such as VUnit or Vivado Simulator
- Hands-on experience with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in cross-functional teams
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- AIP Bonus Plan
- AIP Target Bonus: Level III-10%; Level IV - 15%
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
VHDLFPGA designtiming analysisAXI interfacessynthesisplace-and-routetestbenchessimulation environmentsSoC integrationperformance optimization
Soft skills
problem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationcross-functional teamwork