FPGA IP Software Development Engineer (FPGA)

Location: San Jose, California, United States; on-site role. Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.

Salary: $133.2K–$212.7K USD annually for the Bay Area, California; incentive opportunities may also be available.

Company

hirify.global develops programmable FPGA-based solutions for AI, cloud, communications, industrial, aerospace, defense, embedded, and data center applications.

What you will do

• Design, develop, integrate, and validate RTL for FPGA-based systems and platforms.
• Integrate FPGA IP subsystems and I/O technologies including PCIe, Ethernet, EMIF, networking IPs, and ARM HPS.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and application teams on FPGA HW/SW co-development, system integration, board bring-up, validation, and debugging.
• Develop software abstractions, drivers, and frameworks for FPGA acceleration solutions.
• Contribute to SmartNICs, embedded computing platforms with GPU, ARM-based FPGA systems, and communications and data center acceleration products.
• Improve FPGA development, verification, and debug methodologies; evaluate tools, flows, and automation techniques; and support customer-facing technical investigations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; a master’s degree is strongly preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in FPGA design and development.
• Strong RTL development experience with Verilog and/or SystemVerilog.
• Experience integrating FPGA IPs such as PCIe, Ethernet, EMIF, and ARM HPS.
• Experience with FPGA system bring-up, validation, and debugging.
• Understanding of FPGA development toolchains and implementation flows.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, collaboration, communication, and technical documentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, fast-paced development environment and bridge hardware and software teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with FPGA HW/SW co-development and system-level integration.
• Software development experience in C/C++, Python, or embedded Linux environments.
• Experience developing FPGA-based embedded systems or SmartNIC solutions.
• Familiarity with networking protocols, data center acceleration architectures, FPGA acceleration frameworks, and software abstractions.
• Research or industry experience in FPGA-based acceleration, embedded systems, communications, robotics, or AI/GPU applications.
• Experience in a semiconductor or programmable logic environment.
• Interest in concurrent hardware and software co-development and learning new technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, cross-functional environment involving hardware, software, and application teams.
• Opportunity to influence both hardware and software development for FPGA-based products.
• Work on next-generation communications, embedded, AI, robotics, SmartNIC, and data center solutions.
• Incentive opportunities based on individual and company performance.