[Permanent position] Senior FPGA prototyping engineer

About SiPearl

SiPearl is the European fabless designer of sovereign secure high-performance energy-efficient CPUs for HPC, AI and data centres. These CPUs will help address strategic challenges in the fields of security, defence, medical research, energy, climate and engineering with a reduced environmental footprint.

SiPearl is incubated within the European Processor Initiative (EPI) Consortium and seed-funded by the European Union. SiPearl employs almost 200 people in France (Maisons-Laffitte, Grenoble, Massy, Sophia Antipolis), Spain (Barcelona), and Italy (Bologna). After a €130 million Series A, the company has launched its Series B round.

About The Role

To validate our first tape-out, we developed an initial prototyping platform, using a smart hybrid approach that connects a real hardware system development board with a small prototyping FPGA board. Based on the success of this approach, we are building a full stack prototyping and demonstration platform to port the full complexity of our designs to FPGA prototyping and enable the development of the entire FW and SW (BIOS, Kernel or high speed interfaces like PCIe/DDR/UCIe) pre-silicon. We are assembling a new team that will use state-of-the-art multi-FPGA prototyping platforms, porting and modeling our designs and connecting them with real hardware.

Your missions

• Design, develop and continuously improve the FPGA prototyping workflow, integrating it into the company-wide HW and SW flows
• Generate, test and debug complex FPGA platforms from RTL, ensuring performance, robustness and maintainability
• Develop and integrate hardware and software blocks, as well as automation tools and scripts to improve productivity and user experience
• Provide expert-level technical support to internal users, analyze complex issues and propose long-term, scalable solutions
• Act as a primary technical interface with EDA tool vendors and IP providers, driving technical discussions and tracking issue resolution
• Contribute to technology watch, evaluate new tools and share best practices across teams

What Would Make You Succeed In This Role

• Strong expertise in FPGA development and prototyping on complex platforms
• Solid knowledge of HDL languages (SystemVerilog, VHDL), timing constraints (SDC) and advanced design rules
• Ability to architect robust solutions, take ownership of technical topics and drive continuous improvements
• Professional proficiency in English within an international environment
• Strong communication skills, team spirit and a high level of autonomy
• Scientific rigor, curiosity, adaptability and a strong problem-solving mindset

Note to candidate: even if you do not fulfill all qualifications, please apply and tell us why you would be a good fit.

Recruitment process

• Discovery interview with our Talent Acquisition Partner (30 min)
• AssessFirst personality test
• 2 Technical interviews (1h each)
• Interview with one HRBP (30 min)

Benefits And Conditions

• Contract: Permanent Contract
• Benefits: annual bonus; meal vouchers (60% covered by SiPearl); health insurance (70% covered by SiPearl); access to mental health support via moka.care; development training; BSPCE
• Work model: On-Site or Hybrid (2 days/week remote)
• Office locations: France (Maisons-Laffitte, Massy, Grenoble, Sophia Antipolis), Spain (Castelldefels - Barcelona), Italy (Bologna)
• Visa sponsorship: we do not provide sponsorship, but we assist international candidates with the visa process where possible

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• Recruiting updates: SiPearl careers webpage
• Learn about our team culture: Welcome to the Jungle

SiPearl is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We recruit talent based on merit, experience and alignment with our goals and values.