FPGA/ASIC Design Engineer

Acara Solutions is seeking a skilled FPGA/ASIC Design Engineer to join our client on a contract to hire opportunity located in McLeansville NC. This role focuses on developing high-performance FPGA solutions using VHDL/Verilog, with a strong emphasis on timing-critical, high-speed, and embedded processing applications.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and test FPGA-based solutions using VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog.

Work with high-speed transceivers (GTX/GTH/GTY) and bus protocols (Ethernet, SPI, I2C, CAN, etc.).

Interface FPGAs with external memory (DRAM/SRAM).

Collaborate across hardware/software teams for system-level integration.

Perform static timing analysis, floor planning, and timing closure.

Required Experience:

5+ years of FPGA design experience using Vivado, Zynq UltraScale+, or similar tools/platforms.

Strong background in multi-gigabit transceivers, packet/signal processing, and low-latency designs (e.g., PTP, SyncE, EtherCAT).

Familiar with Petalinux, Yocto, or Buildroot environments.

Experience with Git and CI/CD workflows for FPGA development.

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field.

Preferred Skills / Qualifications:

Industrial network experience (Sercos III, SyncE, etc.)

Knowledge of communication link design, equalization, FEC, and clock recovery

Familiarity with version control, bug tracking, and collaborative dev workflows