Senior FPGA Engineer

"We appreciate your interest in becoming part of our team! Although we do not have an immediate opening, we value proactive candidates like yourself who are looking to build a meaningful career with ASML. We will keep your application on file and confidential for future consideration. (Applying to a "future openings" posting does not guarantee employment)."

ASML US brings together the most creative minds in science and technology to develop lithography machines that are key to producing faster, cheaper, more energy-efficient microchips. We design, develop, integrate, market and service these advanced machines, which enable our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers - to reduce the size and increase the functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics. Our headquarters are in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, and we have 18 office locations around the United States including main offices in Chandler, Arizona, San Jose and San Diego, California, Wilton, Connecticut, and Hillsboro, Oregon.

Job Mission

The FPGA Firmware Engineer provides expertise to deliver FPGA designs supporting electronic and electrical designs for the entire development process. Conceptional design through detail design, prototypes through volume manufacture, initial integration through qualification. You will collaborate with a multidiscipline project team,  perform engineering analysis and generate detailed  design documents.

The position requires someone who solves problems and takes ownership of their work, and retains a sense of urgency to meet project deadlines. We are looking for candidates with innovative and energetic personalities who are willing to explore new ideas, and strong team players with excellent communication skills. motivated, extremely organized and self-driven individuals.

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.  

Job Description

The FPGA Firmware Engineer will work with a team of specialists who will be responsible for developing, testing, and supporting electronics boards or sub-systems.  The engineer will be responsible for definition, design, verification and documentation for FPGA’s (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). They will provide RTL design, simulation, physical implementation and verification of complex FPGA modules comprising a mix of custom RTL with hard and soft vendor IP cores within a larger architecture.

• Determine architecture, system verification and detailed design approach.

• Define module interfaces and all aspects of device design and simulation coordinated with the PC Board Designers.

• Evaluate the process flow including but not limited to high level design, synthesis, place and route, timing constraints and power utilization.

• Develop test, simulation plans and design verification test plans at design top level.

• Develop, implement and supervise design verification test plans at system level.

• Support the generation of technical engineering products by using the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the FPGA development life cycle.

• May provide leadership and/or direction to lower level employees.

• Independently determine approach to solutions and get alignment from System Engineers and board developers.

• Contribute to design and development of FPGA hardware for control, communications systems and digital signal processing (DSP) platforms.

Education and Experience

Minimum qualifications – the hired candidate must possess all of the minimum qualifications to be initially considered for the position including:

• Bachelor or Master in Engineering with a major in Electrical Engineering and/or Computer Engineering

• minimum of 8+ years relevant design experience
   

Required technical skills  

• Highly proficient use and understanding of FPGA engineering concepts, principles, and theories

• Highly proficient in FPGA design languages and tools including VHDL and UVM or OSVVM (Altera High Level Synthesis is preferred)

• Experience with FPGA development software - (Modelsim, Quartus, Mentor CDC is preferred) 

• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office applications

• Experience with FPGA SoC, including Avalon and AXI architectures

• Experience with architecting and implementing embedded