Senior Software Engineer — SmartHLS Applications (FPGASoC)

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Job Description:

Role Summary
Design productize and support SmartHLS-based C open-source libraries and reference applications for Microchips PolarFire FPGA and PolarFire SoC families. This role blends hands-on feature development on-board test/CI bring-up developer-experience tooling and Field Application Engineer and customer training. You will collaborate with the HLS compiler team Continuous Integration/SQA and FAE teams to deliver high-quality well-documented IP and examples that accelerate customer adoption.

About the Team
The SmartHLS Applications team builds reusable C libraries (e.g. Vision DSP Math etc.) and for example designs integrates them with Libero SoC and maintains on-board/CI testing to ensure reliability across supported boards (e.g. BeagleV-Fire Icicle PolarFire Video Kit Discovery Kit ). The team also authors hands-on labs and training materials for FAEs and customers.

Key Responsibilities
Build and maintain SmartHLS C libraries and examples
Own feature development and PRs in internal GitHub repositories
Deliver production-quality HLS IP including verification QoR analysis and demo integration.
Develop and deliver FAE/customer training (labs docs IDE walk-throughs) including Embedded SW HLS and System-level flows.
Stand up and improve on-board/CI testing for SmartHLS (for Windows and Linux); triage failures and drive fixes with CI owners.
Operate and enhance a board-farm manager to reduce board contention and improve reservation/health checks of the hardware boards.
Support cross-team handoffs by aligning deliverables and follow-ups with internal and external customers.

Requirements/Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related field.
5 years of professional experience in software development.
Strong modern C/C and Python programming skills.
Working knowledge of FPGA/SoC design flows.
Experience authoring training and developer guides (e.g. step-by-step labs & documentation).
Hands-on with FPGA development boards.
Git/GitHub development with PR workflows for internal/external repositories.

Preferred Qualifications
Familiarity with RISC-V is a plus.
Experience using Generative AI tools and frameworks such as LLMs & RAGs.
Familiarity with High-Level Synthesis.

Tools & Technologies Youll Use
Libero SoC 2025.1 SmartHLS
C/C Python GenAI frameworks
Jenkins Confluence Jira Bitbucket and GitHub
Linux and Windows development environments
RISC-V (Soft Mi-V) reference platforms and evaluation boards

Work Model
Hybrid Primary work location is Toronto Ontario. The team collaborates in person for select planning workshops or lab activities; remote work is supported for focused development.

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