Principal FPGA Engineer

Ayo is a venture-backed early-stage startup that will radically redefine how humanity performs compute for AI. Our photonic processors will provide orders of magnitude improvement in speed and power efficiency in comparison to conventional digital compute platforms by taking advantage of the natural parallelism, speed and energy efficiency of light.

We are looking for a Principal FPGA Engineer to join our hardware team. You will write and deploy code to FPGAs that are central to our chip development and verification workflow. This is hands-on work with real hardware - you will move fast, own your work end to end, and collaborate closely with our AI and hardware teams to keep our prototype development moving.

This is a fully onsite role based in Boston.

Design, implement, and test FPGA-based systems that support our chip verification and prototype development pipeline.

Deploy and iterate on RTL code (Verilog or VHDL) targeting FPGAs in our prototype hardware.

Deploy and iterate on embedded C/C++ code targeting embedded processors on FPGA system-on-chips

Work closely with ASIC engineers to build test benches to test ASICs and to bring up and test prototypes of our computing systems..

Support the hardware team by performing FPGA trade studies and assessing the viability of proposed pin mappings on developmental circuit card assemblies

Support bring-up and test of new printed circuit boards and prototypes by writing and testing interfaces to peripherals such as ADCs, DACs, memory, etc.

Contribute to upgrading and scaling our existing FPGA infrastructure as we grow.