📌 Job Description

FPGA Silicon Validation Engineer

📍 Location: Hyderabad (Onsite)

🔎 About the Role

We are looking for FPGA Silicon Validation Engineers across multiple experience levels to support FPGA system validation, high-speed protocol validation, silicon feature enablement, and embedded processor-based subsystem validation.

You will collaborate closely with hardware architects and system-level design teams to validate silicon features, ensure performance robustness, and drive feature enablement on FPGA platforms.

🎯 Key Responsibilities

-Exceptional digital fundamentals

-Hands-on experience in System Design with FPGA devices using relevant FPGA EDA tools

-Experience designing and implementing FPGA-based solutions using Microchip, Xilinx, or Altera FPGAs

-Strong coding skills in Verilog/SystemVerilog, VHDL, and C for embedded processors; ability to maintain existing code

-Experience developing testbenches using Verilog/SystemVerilog and validating designs in simulation using BFM/VIP

-Experience with synthesis, placement constraints, STA constraint definition, and timing closure for high-speed designs

-Validation of FPGA-based implementation on hardware boards

-Embedded firmware development in C/C++

-Strong lab debug experience using oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, embedded and RTL debuggers

-Experience with on-chip debug tools

-Scripting experience in TCL/Perl

-Exposure to version control systems (GitHub, SVN)

-Strong background in silicon validation, failure analysis, and debug

-Understanding of hardware architectures, use models, and system-level design implementations

🛠 Required Skills

• Strong digital design fundamentals

• Hands-on experience with FPGA board-level validation

• Experience with Microchip, Xilinx, or Altera FPGAs

• Strong coding skills in Verilog/SystemVerilog, VHDL, and C

• Embedded firmware development in C/C++

• Experience validating AXI/AHB/APB, SPI, UART, I3C/I2C, USB, SerDes-based protocols

• Experience in memory interfaces validation

• Strong lab debug and silicon validation experience

• Understanding of hardware architecture and system-level implementation

➕ Good to Have

• Knowledge of AMBA protocols (APB, AHB, AXI, ACE)

• Exposure to ARM Cortex-M3 or RISC-V processors

• Bare-metal embedded software development

• Experience with integrated logic analyzers and protocol exercisers

Thanks & Best Regards,

Shanmuga Priya, Technical Recruiter

AB2 Consulting, Inc

+91 9791674160 (WhatsApp)