FPGA DESIGN ENGINEER RESUME EXAMPLE

Published: Mar 27, 2025 – The FPGA Design Engineer designs, develops, tests, and maintains FPGA modules and Verilog code for Zynq-based systems while ensuring reliability and scalability. This position collaborates with hardware and DSP engineers to optimize signal processing solutions and improve embedded system efficiency. The engineer also stays updated on FPGA advancements, actively participates in design reviews, and seeks continuous improvement through conferences and industry insights.

Tips for FPGA Design Engineer Skills and Responsibilities on a Resume

1. FPGA Design Engineer, Silvus Technologies, Irvine, CA

Job Summary: 

  • Be responsible for the design (in VHDL), prototyping, and verification activities for Xilinx-based FPGA.
  • Be responsible for investigating the feasibility of complex system requirements
  • Work on a Xilinx 7 Series chip using the Vivado tool and Simulations using ModelSim software
  • Develop communications-based technology relating to FPGA
  • Develop Payload-based technology relating to FPGA
  • Debug FPGA firmware on target hardware board and Functional/Performance testing
  • Understand high-level requirements and translate them into detailed specifications.
  • Design and implement RTL logic (mainly Verilog or System Verilog), run block-level simulation, FPGA synthesis and backend, and timing closure.
  • Interface with the broader FPGA design team, hardware team, and software team.
  • Perform lab bring-up, product integration, and support.
  • Provide technical support to customers and lead them through complex technical issues


Skills on Resume: 

  • FPGA Design VHDL (Hard Skills)
  • System Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Xilinx 7 Series (Hard Skills)
  • ModelSim Sim (Hard Skills)
  • FPGA Comms Dev (Hard Skills)
  • FPGA Payload Dev (Hard Skills)
  • FPGA Debug & Test (Hard Skills)
  • Tech Support (Soft Skills)

2. FPGA Design Engineer, General Dynamics Mission Systems, Dedham, MA

Job Summary: 

  • Produce FPGA and/or SOC chip and/or unit-level architecture
  • Create design documentation
  • Perform FPGA chip-level and unit-level design and verification 
  • Produce design effort estimates
  • Support system integration and verification
  • Support and enhance designs in production 
  • Test using various modern Xilinx FPGA debugging tools
  • Release documentation to support projects
  • Engineering support to the research, development, and analysis effort in real-time video processing
  • Understand and interpret MATLAB and C++ code and the process of porting said code to an FPGA


Skills on Resume: 

  • FPGA/SOC Architecture (Hard Skills)
  • Design Documentation (Hard Skills)
  • FPGA Design & Verification (Hard Skills)
  • Effort Estimation (Soft Skills)
  • System Integration & Verification (Hard Skills)
  • Production Support (Hard Skills)
  • Xilinx Debug Tools (Hard Skills)
  • MATLAB & C++ Interpretation (Hard Skills)

3. Senior FPGA Design Engineer, Moog Inc., Phoenix, AZ

Job Summary: 

  • Own the FPGA component of the Zynq-based design.
  • Design, develop, document, test, debug, and maintain associated FPGA modules and Verilog code.
  • Lead peer design reviews of work and participate in embedded software and hardware design reviews.
  • Continuously drive to improve the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of the embedded system.
  • Collaborate with hardware colleagues on design and development regularly.
  • Work closely with DSP engineers to design and implement efficient solutions to advanced signal processing problems.
  • Stay up to date with the state of the art in FPGA/embedded design
  • Attend conferences/webinars and continuously make suggestions for improvements.


Skills on Resume: 

  • FPGA Zynq (Hard Skills)
  • FPGA Dev (Hard Skills)
  • Design Reviews (Soft Skills)
  • System Optimization (Hard Skills)
  • HW Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • DSP Integration (Hard Skills)
  • FPGA Updates (Hard Skills)
  • Tech Events (Soft Skills)

4. Senior FPGA Design Engineer, Leidos, Huntsville, AL

Job Summary: 

  • IP and/or chip-level micro-architectures, implementation, and validation
  • Develop RTL, perform synthesis, and place and route (FPGA) via standard EDA tools
  • PCIe IP integration, Host DMA controller, Command Scheduling/Arbitration controller development, lab bring-up, and customer support
  • Write up architecture and design documents, and be able to present them to customers
  • Work with customers to troubleshoot, debug, and tune system performance
  • Review the current implementation, while updating functionality when needed
  • Complete simulation and timing closure
  • Integrate and test in the lab on the hardware, while fixing any issues related to functionality or performance
  • Video processing IP development on Xilinx’s Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, based on provided or developed Maltab/C++ code
  • FPGA synthesis, Place & Route, and verification on Xilinx’s Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC


Skills on Resume: 

  • Micro-Arch (Hard Skills)
  • RTL Synthesis (Hard Skills)
  • PCIe DMA (Hard Skills)
  • Docs & Presentation (Soft Skills)
  • Debug & Tuning (Soft Skills)
  • Review & Update (Hard Skills)
  • Sim & Timing (Hard Skills)
  • FPGA Test (Hard Skills)

5. FPGA Design Engineer, Keysight Technologies, Springfield, IL

Job Summary: 

  • Understand and document requirements for FPGA designs
  • Architecture development, algorithm implementation, synthesizable VHDL code generation
  • Perform FPGA design verification - Testbench development, scripting, VHDL simulation
  • Generate design review and deliverable documentation, including review packages, block diagrams, interface control documents, and test plans/procedures.
  • Conduct design peer reviews at various phases in the development process.
  • Integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly
  • Evaluate high-level architecture at an implementation feasibility level.
  • Be the main liaison from the IP engineering team to the high-speed IO design team and be the local high-speed link design, expert.
  • Contribute to new process improvement in design and development methodologies that impact productivity.
  • Evaluate and execute design and development plans for IPs,  u-Architecture, design, documentation, and prototyping.
  • Work with cross-functional teams in reviewing the verification and validation plans and ensure that the product delivered is of high quality.


Skills on Resume: 

  • FPGA Requirements (Hard Skills)
  • Arch & Algorithm Dev (Hard Skills)
  • FPGA Verification (Hard Skills)
  • Design Docs (Hard Skills)
  • Peer Reviews (Soft Skills)
  • FPGA Integration (Hard Skills)
  • Feasibility Eval (Hard Skills)
  • Cross-Team Collab (Soft Skills)