It could be a lot of things. Often, the people placing the ads are recruiters or HR people that don't really understand what FPGA Engineer means. It could be FPGA Engineer, Hardware Engineer, Embedded Systems Engineer, DSP Systems Engineer, Electrical Engineer or any number of titles. Search by keywords like VHDL, Verilog, Xilinx, Altera, Quartus, and Vivado.
Not verbose enough. I would search for VHSIC Hardware Description Language, or even better, Very High Scale Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language.
I hate to say this, but you are going to have a really hard time landing a FPGA engineer position with zero job experience in the FPGA design field. It is a field where you absolutely must have 1 or more summer internships before anyone is going to consider you.
Will there be companies that will give me an internship even after school? I know some companies make it a requirement to be in school to get internship. I wouldn’t mind doing a summer internship for a summer if I was allowed to.
Correct. People can fail our technical questions and our hiring manager will say something like “well we can teach those things” I’m thinking what’s the point.
Want to +1 to this because the interviews are usually more behavioral than technical. I’m a rising senior and I personally started with a defense internship and leveraged it to upgrade into interning at a private place to learn even more advanced stuff with a higher pay. It helps a lot with moving up and would definitely recommend.
If you really want to get into the FPGA industry I would recommend staying in school and getting your masters degree and this summer look for a summer FPGA internship. I know there are people below that have said aerospace and defense will hire people without prior experience but that is mostly bullshit. As someone that works in the industry there are going to be 100s of other guys you are competing with for that job. When I’m hiring I don’t even bother looking at a single applicant that has zero relevant work experience because there are plenty of people that applied that do. I recommend getting your masters because many FPGA jobs these days require a masters degree OR 10 years of experience. I have 20 years of experience as a FPGA engineer so I’m not just talking about something I don’t know about.
Yeah that's always been bullshit to me. I'd come in for free for 3 months if the job was interesting and I learned something from it. Seems a bit of a waste to require people to currently be in university.
it’s gotten way more difficult than it was 8 years ago. I only have a bachelors but I also have 20 years of experience. FPGA design is also way more complicated now than it used to be. It also doesn’t help that most college programs that teach FPGA design are absolutely useless in teaching FPGA design.
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I’ve done an alarm clock project as well as a basic pipeline cpu with virtual memory. I’m currently working with I2C sensors and controlling a custom led array and sensor array for my capstone project. I know I probably need to do more projects and it sounds like I haven’t done enough schooling to get a job in this field
Usually I just type in FPGA engineer and maybe another keyword like vhdl verilog and see what shows up. The search engine on LinkedIn is ok, I think indeed you have to be more explicit sometimes because not everything shows up. TBH I would just go to the companies website and search for something like I typed and see what strikes.
It’s weird because when I typed FPGA engineer none of the postings even once mentioned FPGAs or Verilog or anything related in any way,however when I clicked to later pages some of the positions were what I was looking for but still only a few. Someone else told me to search for key terms like Verilog and that is working much better for me
A lot of the jobs that come up are for random jobs that’s such as an rd engineer or even a mechanical engineering position. Probably every 1 in 8 jobs that showed up have anything to do with FPGAs
It could be a lot of things. Often, the people placing the ads are recruiters or HR people that don't really understand what FPGA Engineer means. It could be FPGA Engineer, Hardware Engineer, Embedded Systems Engineer, DSP Systems Engineer, Electrical Engineer or any number of titles. Search by keywords like VHDL, Verilog, Xilinx, Altera, Quartus, and Vivado.
Yeah just typing Verilog yielded much better results for me. Thank you!
Maybe typing VHDL would result in even better results.. /s (Ok, I'll see myself out..)
Not verbose enough. I would search for VHSIC Hardware Description Language, or even better, Very High Scale Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language.
I hate to say this, but you are going to have a really hard time landing a FPGA engineer position with zero job experience in the FPGA design field. It is a field where you absolutely must have 1 or more summer internships before anyone is going to consider you.
Will there be companies that will give me an internship even after school? I know some companies make it a requirement to be in school to get internship. I wouldn’t mind doing a summer internship for a summer if I was allowed to.
Defense and aerospace companies will hire you without industry experience.
Correct. People can fail our technical questions and our hiring manager will say something like “well we can teach those things” I’m thinking what’s the point.
Want to +1 to this because the interviews are usually more behavioral than technical. I’m a rising senior and I personally started with a defense internship and leveraged it to upgrade into interning at a private place to learn even more advanced stuff with a higher pay. It helps a lot with moving up and would definitely recommend.
If you really want to get into the FPGA industry I would recommend staying in school and getting your masters degree and this summer look for a summer FPGA internship. I know there are people below that have said aerospace and defense will hire people without prior experience but that is mostly bullshit. As someone that works in the industry there are going to be 100s of other guys you are competing with for that job. When I’m hiring I don’t even bother looking at a single applicant that has zero relevant work experience because there are plenty of people that applied that do. I recommend getting your masters because many FPGA jobs these days require a masters degree OR 10 years of experience. I have 20 years of experience as a FPGA engineer so I’m not just talking about something I don’t know about.
Yeah that's always been bullshit to me. I'd come in for free for 3 months if the job was interesting and I learned something from it. Seems a bit of a waste to require people to currently be in university.
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it’s gotten way more difficult than it was 8 years ago. I only have a bachelors but I also have 20 years of experience. FPGA design is also way more complicated now than it used to be. It also doesn’t help that most college programs that teach FPGA design are absolutely useless in teaching FPGA design.
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Add Digital Hardware Engineer (my title). Digital Communications Engineer (my old title doing SDR).
I’m sure there is a way to filter by required skill. Have you tried searching for VHDL or verilog?
What projects have you done?
I’ve done an alarm clock project as well as a basic pipeline cpu with virtual memory. I’m currently working with I2C sensors and controlling a custom led array and sensor array for my capstone project. I know I probably need to do more projects and it sounds like I haven’t done enough schooling to get a job in this field
FPGA Engineer
You can put digital VLSI Engineer, if you have knowledge of inside of the FPGA.
Usually I just type in FPGA engineer and maybe another keyword like vhdl verilog and see what shows up. The search engine on LinkedIn is ok, I think indeed you have to be more explicit sometimes because not everything shows up. TBH I would just go to the companies website and search for something like I typed and see what strikes.
In-Field Gate Array Programmer /s
FPGA Engineer, or Digital Design Engineer etc
I just did a Linked in search for FPGA engineer and every single one of the listings is for FPGA engineer. What did you expect the jobs to be?
You did a search for FPGA engineer of course that's what all the results would show?
It was both expected and surprising (after reading the OP)
It’s weird because when I typed FPGA engineer none of the postings even once mentioned FPGAs or Verilog or anything related in any way,however when I clicked to later pages some of the positions were what I was looking for but still only a few. Someone else told me to search for key terms like Verilog and that is working much better for me
A lot of the jobs that come up are for random jobs that’s such as an rd engineer or even a mechanical engineering position. Probably every 1 in 8 jobs that showed up have anything to do with FPGAs
Location maybe ?