{"id":23782,"url":"https://alion.io/job/taara-fpga-design-engineer","title":"FPGA Design Engineer","company":{"id":6577,"name":"Taara","domain":"taara.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/taara","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":86,"open_postings":21,"ghost_share":0.143,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":117,"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Sunnyvale, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":160000,"max":210000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":210000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Embedded C","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SystemVerilog","optional":false},{"name":"Verilog","optional":false},{"name":"C","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2025-09-12T19:32:09Z","employer_posted_date":"2025-09-12","last_verified_at":"2026-10-16T20:32:35Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":399,"trust":{"level":"ghost","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale","company_stale"],"days_open":398},"description":"About Taara Connect:\nBorn at X, Google's Moonshot Factory, Taara is on a mission to connect billions of people lacking abundant and affordable internet today by pioneering the way we use light to deliver faster, cheaper, more reliable connectivity. Lead the charge in bringing our groundbreaking wireless optical communication and photonics chip technologies to the world. Drive our growth story as we scale innovative solutions across the world. Join us to light the way for bridging the digital divide and illuminating the future.\nRole Overview:\nWe are seeking a highly-motivated individual that enjoys working in a small dynamic team environment with a passion for solving challenging problems that can lead to high-impact advances in technology. As an FPGA Design Engineer, you will be responsible for the full lifecycle of FPGA designs - design, simulation, implementation, testing, and verification - for digital logic for high-data-rate communications systems and precision line-of-sight tracking systems.\nAbout the Role:\nCollaborate across teams to jointly develop high-speed digital signal processing and control system algorithms supporting wireless optical communications applications.\n\nImplement custom RTL modules that enable high data rate communications, as well as timing-sensitive feedback-based precision line-of-sight tracking systems.\n\nDevelop test benches for RTL modules, perform simulation, and verify design requirements are met.\n\nIntegrate third party IP cores into an FPGA system, create custom RTL wrappers for third party cores, and interface with IP vendors.\n\nParticipate in board bring-up activities, system level integration tasks, troubleshooting, and field testing.\n\nStay current with the latest FPGA technologies, tools, and best practices.\n\nContribute ideas and participate in improving our design process, infrastructure, and products.\n\nWhat you should have:\nBachelor of Science in Computer Engineering or similar discipline.\n\n3+ years in FPGA/ Digital Logic Design role, with experience in implementing and testing custom RTL using System Verilog or Verilog.\n\nExperience with FPGA design flow including simulation, synthesis, and static timing analysis.\n\nExperience with FPGA high speed interfaces.\n\nHands on experience with lab equipment including oscilloscopes and hardware debugging.\n\nExcellent problem-solving and analytical skills.\n\nStrong communication and teamwork skills.\n\nIt would be great if you also had these:\nMS (or higher) in Computer Engineering, or a related field.\n\nExperience with AMD UltraScale/UltraScale+ FPGAs/SoCs, or equivalent.\n\nExperience coding in embedded C/C++ (or similar) and common scripting languages (e.g. Python, tcl).\n\nExperience implementing RTL blocks for high-speed communications, image processing, and real-time tracking systems.\n\nExperience with Simulink or High Level Synthesis.\n\nThe US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000-$210,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3298,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Optical Communications","Optics & Photonic Components"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2025-09-12T19:32:09Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":8,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.3,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":398,"expected_fill_days":117,"reasons":["conf:3","ghost","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":210000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/taara-fpga-design-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/taara-fpga-design-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-17T00:08:15Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":164,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-18T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":6577},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=6577"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ftaara-fpga-design-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ftaara-fpga-design-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ftaara-fpga-design-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/taara-fpga-design-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ftaara-fpga-design-engineer"}]}