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# FPGA Engineer

- **Company:** ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd
- **Location:** Minden, Germany
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Fieldbus, Embedded Software, Ethernet, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Design, Profibus, Software Engineering, Static Timing Analysis, VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL), Vivado, PIC Microcontroller, Fpga Hardware, ModelSim, Hardware Testing
- **Published:** June 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=90f99b22ab23b802

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Software development?, * Completed degree in Electrical Engineering or a comparable field of study

 * At least 3+ years of relevant professional experience in hardware development.
 * Good knowledge in FPGA design (AMD/Xilinx, Altera, VHDL)
 * Confident handling of common FPGA development tools (Vivado, ModelSim)
 * Experience in embedded software development (e.g., PIC, ATMEGA, STM32, MicroBlaze)
 * Good knowledge in classical hardware development as well as in handling hardware design tools
 * Basic knowledge in handling bus systems such as Ethernet, PROFIBUS, or similar fieldbus systems
 * Strong communication and teamwork skills combined with an independent, analytical, and structured working style
 * English: business-fluent (written and spoken); German: fluent (written and spoken)

## Description

In this role, you will play a key part in shaping our hardware and embedded systems.

You will support the conception, design, implementation, and testing of modern FPGA-based solutions, as well as the maintenance and further development of existing systems.

Your tasks

 * Development, implementation, and testing of complex FPGA and SoC architectures
 * Design of VHDL-based systems and development of verification environments
 * Execution of simulations, timing analysis, and hardware validation
 * Development of embedded software for microcontrollers
 * Support of the hardware design team (schematic and layout reviews, testing, documentation)
 * Maintenance and continuous improvement of existing systems
 * Collaboration with internal and external stakeholders and close coordination with hardware and software teams


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