FPGA Design Engineer

Who Youll Work With

You will work closely with cross-functional hardware software and manufacturing engineering teams to innovate new system architectures and drive FPGA development from initial concept to final delivery.

What Youll Do

Our Hardware Design Engineering team is at the forefront of developing high-speed networking and Ethernet products used in enterprise campuses hyperscaler data centers and bleeding-edge AI clusters. The team is responsible for the end-to-end design and development of advanced hardware solutions that meet the demands of modern networking environments.

As a core member of the FPGA Design and Verification team you will drive the development of high-performance control path FPGAs powering Aristas flagship data center platforms. You will own the full design lifecyclefrom gathering architectural requirements and reviewing board schematics to executing rigorous verification leading system bring-up and supporting production deployment.

Responsibilities:

• RTL Development & Verification: Develop integrate simulate and verify Verilog and SystemVerilog RTL code including custom testbench creation.
• FPGA Flow Implementation: Execute the full FPGA development flow including synthesis place and route timing closure and in-system hardware debugging.
• System-Level Integration: Collaborate directly with hardware and software engineering teams to drive rapid bring-up and debugging of next-generation network switch platforms.
• Design & Architecture Reviews: Actively participate in peer RTL code reviews as well as PCB schematic and board design reviews.
• Toolchain Automation: Develop AI-skills Python Tcl or shell scripts to streamline data processing and automate FPGA design workflows.

Concepts & Skills You Will Gain

• Switching Architectures: Master data and control path architectures in modern Ethernet switches alongside critical I/O interfaces (e.g. PCIe Interlaken Ethernet PHY/MAC SMBus SPI MDIO JTAG).
• Networking Protocols: Gain hands-on experience with Ethernet-based protocols including PTP sFlow and PoE.
• Practical FPGA Engineering: Learn to navigate real-world design challenges including tight timing closure resource optimization clock domain crossing and complex state machine design.
• Multi-Vendor Ecosystems: Develop expertise across major vendor FPGA architectures toolchains and IDEs.
• Cross-Functional System Design: Build skills in interpreting complex PCB schematics running advanced simulation frameworks and solving multidisciplinary hardware/software challenges.

Qualifications :

• 2years or more of hands-on experience in Verilog/SystemVerilog RTL design.
• Proven background in Control Path design.
• Direct experience with On-Chip Bus interfaces (e.g. I2C SPI MDIO PCIe AXI).

Preferred:

• Experience with Ethernet Data Path architecture and design.
• Hands-on experience with Streaming Bus interfaces (e.g. AXI-Stream).
• Background in FPGA resource management and timing closure.
• Proficiency in Python Tcl or general scripting for EDA tool automation.
• Lab Debugging & Validation: Utilize logic analyzers (LA) oscilloscopes and vendor-specific debug tools for lab bring up debug and validation.

Compensation Information: 

The new hire base pay for this role has a pay range of $110000 to $170000. Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market. The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors including skills qualifications relevant experience and work location. The salary range provided reflects base pay only. As described above this position may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and - based employees are also entitled to benefits including medical dental vision wellbeing tax savings and income protection. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location.

Additional Information :

Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer. Arista makes all hiring and employment-related decisions in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal state or law law. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time