Principal FPGA Electrical Engineer

Overview

Oracle's West Coast Hardware Development organization seeks to add a Principal FPGA Electrical Engineer to work with our FPGA, electrical, mechanical, SI and power teams in Santa Clara, California.

Opportunity to work with technology from Intel, AMD, Nvidia and other compute, storage, and communications companies to design servers for Oracle's Cloud deployments, database appliance, middleware, and AI solution offerings. Work in a smaller organization within Oracle to team up with other technical experts in Signal Integrity, Power, Electrical, Validation, Mechanical, Diagnostics, BIOS and OS to leverage their expertise and further enhance your FPGA design skills using world class FPGA tools and test equipment.

Build your network with 160,000 Oracle colleagues and over 400,000 customers globally. This position focuses on in-house designs. Enjoy the flexibility to balance career and personal time while staying at the leading edge of server technology and designs. The team is responsible for the architecture, analysis, detailed design, development, integration, test, and delivery of Oracle servers based on high-end server-grade merchant silicon. The systems delivered are integrated as building blocks for Oracle’s Cloud Systems & Appliances.

The FPGA requirements of our next generation Oracle servers are very demanding with a high level of integration for cloud and vertically integrated rack level solutions. This role is on a product team with full ownership responsibilities, not in an FPGA service group.

Role and Responsibilities

As an Electrical Design Engineer focusing on FPGA design, you will be responsible for system level and board level architecture and detailed design. You will take ownership of the FPGA work across all product development phases through the transition to volume production. You will stay abreast of the latest developments in server technology and rapidly adopt and translate these into reliable FPGA subsystems for Oracle offerings.

Career Level: IC4

Responsibilities

• Architect and partition FPGA logic.
• Design and code logic for next generation cloud compute servers, storage subsystems and GPU systems.
• Integrate common code blocks into designs.
• Simulate FPGA design solutions.
• Achieve timing closure on FPGA designs.
• Validate FPGA designs.
• Debug board problems with a focus on FPGA debug levels.
• Work with internal teams to ensure system and FPGA design requirements meet specifications.
• Collaborate with internal firmware/software teams on system level diagnostics.
• Bring up and test prototypes.
• Develop and implement test plans.
• Mentor junior engineers.
• Perform and lead lab debug of HW/FPGA problems.
• Contribute to formal design processes, including requirements management and documentation.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Proficiency in FPGA architecture, design, modeling, simulation, and verification.
• Expertise in Verilog; SystemVerilog and VHDL are a plus.
• Proficiency with FPGA design tools such as Vivado.
• Experience with simulation/verification tools such as Synopsys VCS.
• Experience with RTL linter tools such as Real Intent’s Ascent Lint.
• Experience with I2C/SPI/eSPI/PMBUS/SVID/SGPIO/etc. communication buses preferred.
• Strong knowledge of high-speed design methodologies for FPGA logic.
• Solid understanding of digital design principles and synchronous design techniques.
• Experience with the control and power sequence of high-performance CPUs/GPUs, DDR memory DIMMs, PCIe, storage modules, etc.
• Strong Linux skills and scripting (shell, TCL, Perl, Python).
• Experience working in a team with other FPGA designers.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Experience with recent Intel/AMD/ARM chip sets and GPUs is a plus.
• BSEE with 7 years or MSEE with 5 years FPGA engineering experience.

Disclaimer: Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only.

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $97,500 to $199,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, and for differences across products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed within the range based on factors including internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes: medical/dental/vision; short and long-term disability; life insurance and AD&D; supplemental life insurance; flexible spending accounts; pre-tax commuter/parking benefits; 401(k) with company match; paid time off; paid holidays; paid sick leave; paid parental leave; adoption assistance; employee stock purchase plan; financial planning and group legal; voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance.

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC4

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