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There’s an absolute shedload of opportunity, for one thing. I run a job board for people who design chips and RTL for FPGAs. The pay is good and all companies a
by cushychicken 3y ago
There’s an absolute shedload of opportunity, for one thing. I run a job board for people who design chips and RTL for FPGAs. The pay is good and all companies are hiring RTL designers.
For another, plenty of people who do it love it. This probably isn’t the place to connect with them. I’d recommend /r/fpga or /r/chipdesign on Reddit.
(That job board is www.fpgajobs.com if you're curious.)
- jakeinspace 3y agoThanks for the suggestion! As someone with little job experience doing FPGA work (just a single internship and university research), is it that hard to get an offer that’s not extremely junior level? I’m hoping to leverage my embedded experience for a role that involves firmware or OS work.
- cushychicken 3y agoLots of folks are starting to leverage hybrid FPGA/ARM chips, like the Xilinx Zynq series. Folks who work with these typically get pretty involved in both embedded development and RTL, as part of the challenge is figuring out what segment of compute lives where in those types of systems. There are plenty of places who'd take a decent firmware engineer and then allow them to learn the gateware portion through absorption. A master's in this area also is a good way to break in. Defense companies tend to value it pretty highly.