Senior FPGA/CPLD Design Engineer

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Date posted Oct. 14, 2025

Location Bengaluru, India

Category Design Engineering

Job Overview:

Are you seeking a new technical lead and design challenge in a growing hardware development team in a world leading company? If you are looking for a role that combines both technical leadership and hardware development in an environment where you can make a meaningful contribution and collaborate with a delivery focused, committed team that builds innovative SoC platforms, we look forward to hearing from you

We seek an expert system-level, hardware design to bring your knowledge and expertise to make a long term impact to the success of the project and the wider business. The team works at the forefront of embedded design alongside Software, SoC, Characterisation and Verification teams focusing on prototyping Arm's latest IP products. We design hardware platforms, based around Arm's custom system-on-chip (SoC) and FPGAs.

Responsibilities:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated FPGA/CPLD Design Engineer to join our hardware engineering team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience designing and implementing complex digital logic on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs). This role involves the full design lifecycle, from architecture definition and coding to simulation, testing, and debugging on custom board control and management.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Design, develop, and verify digital logic using Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) such as Verilog and VHDL for FPGA and CPLD devices.
• Work with cross-functional teams (including hardware, software, and systems engineers) to define and implement new requirements for FPGA/CPLD solutions.
• Create detailed design specifications, documentation, and test plans.
• Optimize designs for power, performance, and resource utilization while ensuring all timing requirements are met.
• Implement and verify high-speed interfaces and communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, SGPIO, and UART etc
• Debug and validate FPGA/CPLD designs on hardware using lab equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and in-system tools like Xilinx/AMD Vivado/ISE/ChipScope or Altera Quartus/SignalTap.
• Experience with timing analysis, constraints, and closure.
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in FPGA/CPLD technology, vendor tools, and industry trends.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field

Desirable Skills and Qualities:

• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills

In Return:

You will gain a deeper understanding of system architecture and performance. Opportunity to utilise your engineering skills to develop technologies and influence millions of devices for years to come. Work alongside many other engineering teams including software, SoC implementation and verification, collaborating and enabling engineers and designers. Extend your design expertise, producing high quality designs incorporating Arm IP. You will enjoy new technical challenges faced when using advancing technologies

Accommodations at Arm

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Hybrid Working at Arm

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Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.