Junior Engineer, FPGA

Junior Engineer, FPGA

Full-Time
Onsite-Princeton, NJ

Company Overview

NIKSUN is a Princeton, New Jersey-based technology company founded in 1997 with a mission
to protect critical infrastructure by making the unknown known. NIKSUN provides innovative
solutions for cybersecurity, compliance, network performance, and observability, helping
enterprises and government organizations gain real-time visibility across their IT and network
environments.

At the core of NIKSUN's technology is Olympus, an AI-native platform that unifies security,
performance, and observability on a single data platform. The platform brings together data from
across networks, endpoints, applications, and infrastructure to help organizations detect threats,
investigate incidents, identify root causes, improve performance, and automate response.

NIKSUN's technology is trusted by more than 1,000 enterprises and government
organizations across 30+ countries and is designed to meet the demanding requirements of
enterprise, government, defense, and other critical environments. The company continues to
invest heavily in engineering, research, artificial intelligence, and innovative technology
solutions.

Job Summary

This role requires experience with FPGA design using hardware description languages
(Verilog/VHDL) and/or high-level synthesis (HLS) techniques. The role involves the development
of accelerated logic targeting FPGAs. This applicant must have the ability to parse through FPGA
design files and be able to integrate proprietary IP designs. With the current pace of hardware
evolution there is a constant update in the availability of optimized front ends and peripherals
that the candidate would have to read into and help integrate. The role would also need the
applicant to be comfortable making IP datasheets and documentation.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Testbench development: Develop and maintain test-benches for new or
current IPs
• Experience in targeting/retargeting designs to FPGA boards
• Experience coding and ability to understand Verilog, VHDL, System Verilog and C.
• Experience in building and troubleshooting designs to create timing clean images.
• Experience in building multi-clock domain, synchronize and a-synchronize logic designs
• Experience in evaluating and creating design documentation/data sheets.
• Experience developing and deploying designs on Xilinx boards.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in developing acceleration logic for proprietary algorithms.

Educational Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in Computer engineering, Electrical
Engineering, Electric & Computer Engineering (ECE).

Equal Employment Opportunity
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race,
creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual
orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, or protected veteran
status.