# Principal FPGA Micro-Architect at Lattice Semiconductor

- Company: Lattice Semiconductor
- What the company does: Lattice Semiconductor is the low-power programmable leader, solving customer problems and enabling designers to innovate across multiple applications.
- Company website: https://www.latticesemi.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Jose, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-11-05
- Apply by: 2026-12-20
- Apply: https://latticesemi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/latticesemiconductorscareers/job/San-Jose-CA/Principal-FPGA-Micro-Architect_R-103539?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
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## About the role

There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- MS/PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 15+ years of FPGA fabric micro-architecture experience
- Deep expertise in FPGA fabric elements including logic elements, DSP blocks, embedded memory blocks, interconnect routing muxes, carry chains, and clocking structures
- Proficiency in SystemVerilog/Verilog and SystemC/C++ architectural modeling for performance analysis and design trade-off evaluation
- Deep experience in advanced low-power design: clock and power islands, power gating, multi-rail, and dynamic power mode switching
- Extensive hands-on experience in silicon validation and post-silicon debug of FPGA fabric blocks, including bring-up, characterization, and root-cause analysis of fabric-level sightings
- Strong written and oral communication skills with a history of executive-level presentations


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