Senior FPGA IP Software Development Engineer
📌Penang, Malaysia 🇲🇾
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
Job Description:
- Architect, design, and implement FPGA Soft IP cores using VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog, targeting high-performance and resource-efficient implementations.
- Designs, develops, validates, and/or debugs software abstractions and frameworks for acceleration with FPGAs to support embedded, data center, and communication clients.
- Develop parameterizable and reusable IP blocks for high-speed protocols (e.g., JESD204B/C, AXI, PCIe, Ethernet, DDR interfaces).
- Package IP cores with clearly defined interfaces, metadata, and configuration options for integration into vendor toolchains Quartus Platform Designer.
- Collaborate with software and firmware teams to define memory maps, register interfaces, and configuration protocols.
- Maintain and improve internal IP libraries, ensuring compliance with coding standards, documentation practices, and version control processes.
- Drive integration of IP into larger SoC or system-level FPGA designs, including handling timing closure and interoperability.
- Work closely with system architects and product managers to define IP requirements, performance targets, and roadmap features.
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Mentor junior engineers in best practices for RTL design, IP reuse, and FPGA development flows.
- Bachelor’s or Master's degree in electrical/computer engineering or related field and 8+ years of experience.
- Strong experience with parameterizable RTL design using VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog.
- Proficiency in IP packaging and integration using FPGA vendor tools such as AMD Vivado (IP Integrator), Intel Quartus (Platform Designer), or similar.
- Deep understanding of clock domain crossing (CDC) techniques, timing constraints (SDC/XDC), and static timing analysis (STA).
- Familiarity with bus protocols such as AXI4, Avalon, TileLink, and their use in IP design and integration.
- Hands-on experience with high-speed IP protocols, including familiarity with JESD204B/C, DDR3/DDR4, and memory or serial interface design considerations would be a plus.
- Experience building self-checking testbenches and automation of regression testing using tools like ModelSim, Questa, or XSIM.
- Knowledge of hardware-software interface design, including memory-mapped register interfaces and CSR frameworks.
- Experience with linting tools (e.g., SpyGlass, AscentLint) and synthesis/implementation constraints for FPGAs.
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Exposure to revision control (e.g., Git), issue tracking systems, and collaborative development workflows.
Regular
Shift
Shift 1 (Malaysia)
Primary Location:
Penang 15
Additional Locations:
Posting Statement
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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