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Principal FPGA Electrical Engineer

Oracle

Oracle

Other Engineering
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Posted on Mar 8, 2025

Job Description

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!

Here is your opportunity work with ever changing latest unreleased technology from Intel, AMD, Nvidia and other compute, storage, and communications companies to design unparalleled 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 expertise in the field of FPGA design using world class FPGA tools and test equipment.

Build your network with the help and collaboration of 160,000 talented and highly motivated Oracle colleagues, and over 400,000 customers from around the globe.

This position focuses on in-house designs! Enjoy the flexibility that allows you to balance your career and personal time while keeping 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 the latest high-end server-grade merchant silicon. The systems delivered are integrated as building blocks for some of Oracle’s market leading and growing Cloud Systems & Appliances.

The FPGA requirements of our next generation Oracle servers are very demanding with increasing focus on a high level of integration for our cloud and vertically integrated rack level solutions. This position is not in an FPGA service group but rather on a product team with full ownership 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 out to the transition to volume production. You will need to stay abreast of the latest developments in server technology and rapidly adopt & translate these into reliable FPGA subsystems for our Oracle offerings.

Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities

The list of responsibilities (but not limited to) may include:

  • Architect and partition FPGA logic.
  • Design and Code logic needed 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 various internal teams to assure the requirements of the system and FPGA designs meet specifications.
  • Collaborate with internal firmware/software teams on implementing 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

Job Requirements:

  • Proficiency in FPGA architecture, design, modeling, simulation, and verification.
  • Expertise in Verilog.
  • System Verilog a plus and VHDL 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 bus is preferred.
  • Strong knowledge and application of high-speed design methodologies for FPGA logic.
  • Solid understanding of digital design principles and synchronous design techniques.
  • Experience with Logic level interface of service processors.
  • Proficient in the complete flow of CAD design tools such as Cadence, Concept, Allegro.
  • Proficient in constraint driven design methodologies.
  • Working knowledge of circuit design and layout techniques, including analog, digital, programmable logic, and microcontroller technologies.
  • Experience with the control and power sequence of high-performance CPU processors, GPUs, DDR memory DIMMs, PCIe Cards, Flash modules, disk drives etc.
  • Strong working knowledge of Linux environment and scripting using shell scripts, TCL, Perl, Python, etc.
  • Experience working as a team with other FPGA designers.
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills.
  • Experience with recent Intel/AMD/ARM chip sets and GPU is a plus.
  • BSEE and 7 years or MSEE with 5 years FPGA engineering experience.

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Qualifications

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 for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. 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.

Required Skills

FPGA GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)

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