FPGA Design Engineer

Who You’ll Work With

As a core member of the FPGA Design and Verification team, the candidate will be part of a fast-paced, high caliber team Designing and Verifying control path FPGA's for Arista Network products used in the computer networking industry's largest data centers. The FPGA Design Engineer is responsible for all aspects of the control path FPGA, from collecting the functional requirements that are needed, to reviewing the schematics of the board design engineer, to verifying the design using the latest tools, to bring-up and support of such a vital part of the networking hardware design.  The successful candidate will work closely on a project from its early conception to the customer shipment and support when needed. They will work with fellow engineers and members of the hardware, software, and manufacturing team to understand the feature requirements, design and validate it. Besides closely working with the hardware engineers in designing the board, they will also review the hardware specifications and take ownership of the control path FPGA. 

What You’ll Do 

• Verilog/System Verilog code development, integration, simulation, and testbench creation  
• Perform FPGA implementation including synthesis, place and route, timing analysis, and debug 
• Collaborate with hardware and software engineers for rapid system-level bringup and debugging of network switch designs
• Participate in fpga level code reviews, as well as schematic and board design reviews
• Incorporate scripting to process input/output data for FPGA toolchains

Concepts and Skills You May Learn

• Data and control architectures of a modern ethernet switch, including chip IO interfaces such as Interlaken, Ethernet PHY/MAC, PCIe, SMBus, SPI, MDIO, JTAG, etc.
• Protocols using Ethernet, such as PTP, SFlow, POE, etc.
• Real world applications and the challenges of FPGA design, including resource/timing constraints, race conditions, state machines, etc.
• Exposure to multiple FPGA vendor architectures, IDEs, and toolchains (Xilinx, Altera, Microsemi, etc.)
• Simulation software for FPGA functional verification
• How to read and interpret PCB schematics as they pertain to FPGA code development
• Cross-functional collaboration to ideate and solve system-level technical challenges