Electrical Design Engineer (FPGA)

Location: Milpitas, California, United States; onsite role

Salary: $95,000–$161,500 annually

Company

hirify.global develops metrology and inspection systems for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem, including Surfscan platforms for wafer surface quality and defect inspection.

What you will do

• Define electrical subsystem requirements, specifications, and interfaces from system-level requirements.
• Design and prototype analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits, capture schematics, and direct PCB layout.
• Implement, verify, and optimize high-speed FPGA designs for data acquisition, processing, and communication.
• Develop test fixtures, procedures, and scripts for PCB prototypes and FPGA functional testing, qualification, and characterization.
• Run circuit, signal integrity, timing, thermal, power, and FPGA simulations; participate in design reviews and maintain engineering documentation.
• Collaborate with mechanical, software, systems, manufacturing, and service teams during product integration, production ramp-up, and field issue resolution.

Requirements

• BSEE with at least 1 year of experience, or an MSEE or PhD in electrical engineering.
• Strong foundation in electrical engineering and practical analog and digital mixed-signal circuit design.
• Experience developing FPGA systems on Xilinx or Intel (Altera) platforms using Verilog and/or VHDL, including simulation, synthesis, implementation, and debugging.
• Understanding of FPGA-to-PCB interfaces, timing analysis, timing closure, and constraint development.
• Experience with tools such as OrCAD, Vivado/ISE, Quartus, Synplify, Questa/ModelSim, Python, and MATLAB.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, ownership, and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-assisted circuit design, circuit review, or FPGA design.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and other voluntary benefits.
• 401(k) with company matching and an employee stock purchase program.
• Paid time off, company holidays, and family care and bonding leave.
• Tuition reimbursement, student debt assistance, career development, financial planning, and wellness programs.
• Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities.