Introduction of the job
As an FPGA Design and Verification Engineer, you will specify, design, develop, realize, integrate, and test modules and tools in a multi-disciplined team, collaborating closely with cross-functional partners and suppliers. You will deliver within system specifications, cost targets, and project schedules, ensuring timely realization of solutions that contribute to competitive, achievable, and serviceable products. The FPGA Firmware Engineer provides discipline specific expertise throughout the entire product life cycle. This Includes concept feasibility, new product introduction, existing product sustainment and customer facing problem resolution. The position requires highly motivated, extremely organized, and self-driven individuals.
The FPGA Design and Verification Engineer will be responsible for definition, design, verification, and documentation for Field Programmable Gate Arrays. They will provide RTL design, simulation, physical implementation and verification of complex FPGA modules comprising a mix of custom RTL with hard and soft vendor IP cores within a larger architecture.
Design:
Determine architecture and detailed system design approach for the FPGA
Define module interfaces and all aspects of device design coordinated with the Printed Circuit Board Designers
Evaluate the process flow including but not limited to high level design, synthesis, place and route, timing constraints and power utilization
Support the generation of technical engineering products by using the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the FPGA development life cycle
Independently determine approach to solutions and get alignment from System Engineers and Printed Circuit Board developers
Contribute to design and development of FPGA hardware for control, communications systems and digital signal processing (DSP) platforms.
Technical Writing: Define and Document Specifications and Design Decisions
Test, Verification & Integration:
Develop and Implement the Product Validation and Verification (V&V) Strategy for FPGA
Determine system verification approach for the FPGA, ensuring proper test coverage
Develop, implement and supervise design verification test plans at system level.
Design, Develop and Build Product Specific Test Tooling
Includes: Simulation, Emulation, and Hardware Test Tools.
Test Validation and Verification (V&V) of Product Requirements
Plan and Execute Component Level Testing & Sub-module Integration
Plan and Execute Module Level and System Level Integration
Bridge the gap between Electrical Systems and System Software
Technical Writing: Define and Document Test Procedures, and Test Reports
Role and Responsibilities
In this role, you will contribute to engineering deliverables that scale with job grade, from executing defined tasks and supporting senior engineers to owning complex technical scope, coordinating cross-functional work, and leading program-level outcomes.
Identify, analyze, document, and manage requirements with traceability, and coordinate verification criteria to confirm deliverables meet intent.
Conduct research and feasibility studies, document findings, and translate results into recommendations, tradeoffs, and decision inputs.
Develop engineering concepts and solutions, make technical choices, and resolve issues to meet functionality, performance, cost, and compliance needs.
Define and communicate specifications and high-level designs, align interfaces, and support reviews and approvals to enable quality execution.
Support system or product integration by coordinating dependencies, applying configuration management, and enabling smooth project execution.
Define and execute validation and test approaches, improve methods and procedures, and ensure qualification evidence supports release readiness.
Estimate effort, plan and track work, manage risks and dependencies, and deliver assigned work packages or projects to agreed quality and timelines.
Maintain accurate technical documentation, share knowledge through coaching and mentoring as applicable, and follow EHS policies while identifying and mitigating safety risks.
Education & experience
Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering required. MS or PhD preferred.
Minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience required.
Skills
Technical & functional skills
Requirements, Interfaces & Technical Specification Management: Ability to identify, analyze, document, and manage requirements with traceability, translate them into clear specifications, and align interfaces so engineering deliverables meet intent and enable reliable downstream design, integration, and verification
Engineering Solution Development (Electrical): Ability to develop engineering concepts and solutions, make sound technical tradeoffs, resolve issues, and realize designs that meet functionality, performance, cost, compliance, and schedule constraints within system/module specifications.
Preferred Skills in Embedded Logic and Firmware Design and Verification includes:
Highly proficient use and understanding of FPGA engineering concepts, principles, and theories
Highly proficient in FPGA design languages and tools including VHDL and UVM or OSVVM (Altera High Level Synthesis is preferred)
Experience with FPGA development software - (Modelsim, Quartus, Mentor CDC is preferred)
Highly proficient in Microsoft Office applications
Experience with FPGA SoC, including Avalon and AXI architectures
Experience with architecting and implementing embedded processors including NIOS
Proficient in implementing IP blocks based on interface requirements and designing the required interface logic to overall FPGA architecture
Expertise using VHDL for implementation and verification of FPGA designs
Basic knowledge of signal algorithms
Preferred knowledge and experience using design software and technical tools includes:
VHDL, System Verilog, UVM
Questa Sim, Modelsim, Quartus
GIT, JIRA
MATLAB and SimuLink
Electronic Laboratory Equipment
LabVIEW
Python
Integration, Verification & Validation (V&V) Execution: Ability to plan and execute verification and validation, ensure qualification evidence supports release readiness, and support system/product integration by coordinating dependencies and applying disciplined configuration/traceability to deliver working, testable solutions.
Behavioral & leadership skills
Drives Results: The ability to translate strategic and technical goals into clear priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes, delivering committed results on time and with the right quality by taking ownership, managing trade-offs, removing obstacles, and sustaining momentum across stakeholders and dependencies.
Demonstrates Self-awareness: The ability to understand and manage one’s own strengths, limitations, emotions, and impact on others; to actively seek and use feedback; and to adapt behaviors and decisions to improve collaboration, leadership effectiveness, and results, especially in high-pressure, ambiguous, or complex environments.
Values Differences: The ability to intentionally seek, respect, and integrate diverse perspectives and working styles to strengthen collaboration and decision quality, ensuring all voices are heard and treated equitably, and enabling inclusive execution across cross-functional and multicultural stakeholders.
Builds Effective Teams: Helps align and enable the team dynamic by clarifying shared goals, roles, dependencies, and ways of working. Fosters trust and inclusion by promoting open dialogue, healthy conflict resolution, inclusion, and mutual accountability. Coaches colleagues to strengthen individual and team capability.
Drives Vision and Purpose: Translates broader direction into clear priorities and practical next steps for a team or technical scope. Builds alignment on goals and trade-offs, communicates context during change or ambiguity, and helps others maintain focus on shared outcomes.
Other
This position is located on-site. It requires onsite presence to attend in-person work-related events, trainings and meetings and to further ensure teamwork, collaboration and innovation. A flexible workplace arrangement is available for remote work up to two days a week.
Routinely required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch. Occasionally required to move around the campus.
Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
May require travel (domestic and/or international) dependent on business needs.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
The current base annual salary range for this role is currently:
$0-0Pay scales are determined by role, level, location and alignment with market data. Individual pay is determined through interviews and an assessment of several factors that that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and pay relative to other team members.
The Company offers employees and their families, medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to participate in the Company’s 401k plan. Employees will also receive eight (8) hours of vacation leave every month and (13) paid holidays throughout the calendar year. For more information, please contact the Recruiter or click on this link Compensation & Benefits in the US.
All new ASML jobs have a minimum application deadline of 10 days.
This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the United States Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.
Inclusion and diversityASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
- Minimum four years of relevant work experience
- FPGA engineering concepts, principles, and theories
- FPGA design languages and tools, including VHDL and UVM or OSVVM
- FPGA development software experience, including ModelSim and Quartus
- Microsoft Office proficiency
- FPGA SoC experience, including Avalon and AXI architectures
- Experience architecting and implementing embedded processors, including NIOS
- Experience implementing IP blocks and interface logic within FPGA architectures
- VHDL expertise for FPGA implementation and verification
- Basic knowledge of signal algorithms
- Experience with SystemVerilog, UVM, Questa Sim, ModelSim, Quartus, Git, Jira, MATLAB, Simulink, electronic laboratory equipment, LabVIEW, and Python
- Legally authorized to access controlled technology under U.S. export regulations
ASML Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is broad and employer‑funded to a significant degree, with multiple plan options plus mental health and wellness resources. Complementary offerings like onsite/virtual care, HSA contributions, and a gym subsidy strengthen the overall medical package.
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Parental & Family Support — Family‑forming benefits include paid parental leave, adoption assistance, IVF coverage, and practical supports like lactation rooms and milk‑shipment for travel. These provisions indicate substantial caregiving support across life stages.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off can reach a high ceiling when combining vacation and company holidays, with accruals increasing by tenure. Flexible workplace policies and a vacation sell‑back option add usability to the time‑off program.
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What We Do
ASML is a high-tech company, headquartered in the Netherlands. We manufacture the complex lithography machines that chipmakers use to produce integrated circuits, or computer chips. Over 30 years, we have grown from a small startup into a multinational company with over 60 locations across Europe, Asia and the US. Behind ASML’s innovations are engineers who think ahead. The people who work at our company include some of the most creative minds in physics, electrical engineering, mathematics, chemistry, mechatronics, optics, mechanical engineering, computer science and software engineering. Because ASML spends more than €2 billion per year on R&D, our teams have the freedom, support and resources to experiment, test and push the boundaries of technology. They work in close-knit, multidisciplinary teams, listening to and learning from each other.
