Top FPGA Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Develop and verify ASIC- and FPGA-based SoCs for optical networking applications. Responsibilities include microarchitecture and RTL development, algorithm and fixed-point modeling, size, timing, and power optimization, verification planning, and hardware/software bring-up and debugging. The engineer collaborates with system architects, verification engineers, software teams, suppliers, and other technical groups to resolve issues and deliver competitive networking solutions.

Design and implement FPGA code for satellite digital payloads, including DSP algorithms, software-defined radio signal processing, embedded systems, and processor or peripheral interfaces. Responsibilities include developing custom IP, improving DSP and interface reliability, integrating vendor IP cores, supporting communications architecture, and participating in spacecraft design studies. The engineer will work across simulation, synthesis, place and route, timing closure, and hardware testing.

Design and implement FPGA code for satellite digital payloads, including DSP algorithms, software-defined radio modulation and demodulation, and embedded processor interfaces. Develop custom IP, improve DSP and interface reliability, integrate vendor IP, and support communications architecture and spacecraft design studies. Participate across simulation, synthesis, place and route, timing closure, and hardware testing using Xilinx FPGAs and industry-standard HDL and simulation tools.

The FPGA Engineer will design FPGA logic for trading, analyze results, and work on developing low-latency applications and timing closure.

As an FPGA Engineer at Belvedere Trading, you will develop high-performance FPGA systems, collaborate on trading algorithms, and optimize trading system performance.

Design, implement, verify, and optimize FPGA-based digital signal processing systems. Responsibilities include architecture, RTL coding (VHDL/Verilog), HLS, testbench development, simulation, synthesis, place-and-route, timing closure, and hardware debugging for high-speed interfaces and embedded SoC architectures.

Architects, implements, verifies, and integrates high-performance FPGA networking solutions for space-based electronic systems. Designs Ethernet datapaths, packet switching fabrics, routing and queuing logic, protocol offload functions, and high-speed interfaces using AMD Xilinx technologies. Performs RTL coding, simulation, timing closure, board bring-up, system debugging, and documentation. Collaborates with hardware and software teams, supports laboratory validation, and mentors junior engineers serving DoD, intelligence, and civil space customers.

Join Optiver as a graduate FPGA engineer to design ultra-low-latency hardware and network interfaces for high-frequency trading. You'll develop FPGA/ASIC digital designs, research low-latency techniques, and collaborate with traders, software developers, and infrastructure engineers to integrate hardware with cutting-edge server platforms.

Work with a mentor to design and accelerate low-latency, high-speed FPGA hardware for trading systems. Tasks include hardware design, researching low-latency techniques, integrating FPGAs with server hardware, and collaborating with traders and software engineers on production-grade solutions.

Designs and verifies FPGA-based image, video, sensor-processing, and compression systems for space applications. Responsibilities include adapting MATLAB algorithms, performing fixed-point and word-length optimization, developing VHDL/Verilog RTL and SystemVerilog testbenches, validating hardware against golden models, debugging with FPGA tools, documenting designs, leading reviews, and mentoring engineers. The role focuses on AMD Xilinx FPGA platforms and high-throughput, low-latency processing architectures for DoD, intelligence, and civil space customers.

Design, implement, optimize, verify, and debug complex FPGA solutions using RTL, simulation, and advanced testbenches. Collaborate on board-level interfaces, high-speed protocols, RF DSP, hardware integration, and system architecture. Document designs, support project milestones, improve development processes, interface with customers, and mentor junior engineers. Work cross-functionally with software, mechanical, hardware, and systems teams to deliver FPGA-based products.

As an FPGA Engineer, you will design and implement high-speed hardware for trading systems, collaborate with traders and developers, and advance low-latency techniques.

The Senior FPGA Engineer will architect ultra-low-latency FPGA trading systems, mentor a team, and collaborate closely with quantitative researchers and software developers.

Own FPGA prototyping and silicon bring-up for next-generation communications ASICs. Build FPGA-based platforms, support first-silicon debug, validate high-speed interfaces, develop automated test infrastructure, and collaborate across ASIC, firmware, software, and systems teams.

Implement and optimize RF DSP algorithms in HDL for real-time FPGA execution, prototype algorithms in Python and port to ARM SoCs, collaborate on instrument bring-up, calibration and system integration with RF hardware teams, author design documentation and test reports, and work in a hybrid Mountain View office.