Digital Design Engineer

  • DIGITAL PROSPECTORS
  • Lexington, Massachusetts
  • Full Time

Position: DigitalDesign Engineer
Location:Lexington, MA (On-Site)
Length:3+ Year Contract

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Plans, performs, and executes engineering research and design development for both new products and existing products. Performs design/HDL analysis, including high speed and low power designs. Participates in simulation, verification, and integration tasks. Takes algorithmic or functional specifications and coverts that to a design that can be implemented for use in a lab or field environment. Develops models, simulate and verify designs, fabricate prototypes, and test hardware solutions. Creates and maintains accurate and detailed design files. Candidate should possess experience in electrical engineering and a track record of demonstrating designs on hardware. Digital HDL design experience is required, including complex, high-speed HDL based implementations of algorithms targeting programmable logic devices (PLDs, FPGA, ASIC,etc), microprocessors, DSP and/or ARM processors. Hands-on experience with code design, simulation and testing is required.

Qualifications:
7+ years of experience with team-based VHDL development processes for FPGA based designs is required, including VHDL code development, simulation, verification, synthesis, high-speed timing closure and hardware-based acceleration
Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
In-depth knowledge of Xilinx Ultrascale+ and Versal FPGAs
Must be able to function proficiently in an exclusively UNIX based environment
In depth familiarity of UNIX based scripting, Xilinx Vivado, Modelsim/Questa, laboratory test equipment, network test equipment, and source/revision control tools
Experience developing implementation architectures from requirements documents or high-level specifications
Experience using and maintaining legacy IP and UNIX build environments. Requires the ability to troubleshoot designs operating within an integrated system.

Preferred Skills:
Experience with DDR4 memory, terrestrial network standards, DSP processing techniques, and design and debug of complex circuit boards
Knowledge of Matlab, Perl, TCL, System C, System Verilog

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POST-OFFER BACKGROUND CHECK IS REQUIRED. Digital Prospectors is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Digital Prospectors affirms the right of all individuals to equal opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination or harassment.

Job ID: 522633004
Originally Posted on: 5/27/2026

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