SW QA Staff Engineer

Lattice Overview

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. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality. Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for.

Responsibilities & Skills

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to join our team with a specialized focus on Radiant QoR (Quality of Results). This role is critical in ensuring our FPGA design tools deliver optimal performance, area, power, and timing results. You will work closely with R&D, software engineering, and customer-facing teams to validate and enhance QoR across a wide range of real-world and synthetic designs.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test plans and test cases for Radiant QoR flows.
• Analyze synthesis, place-and-route, and timing results to identify regressions and drive improvements.
• Acquire and integrate IP blocks, solution designs, and customer designs into the QoR validation suite to ensure real-world relevance and robustness.
• Convert and validate designs across different Radiant device families, ensuring consistent QoR and functional correctness.
• Automate QoR validation workflows using scripting languages (e.g., Python, Tcl, Shell).
• Collaborate with development teams to triage issues, reproduce bugs, and verify fixes.
• Maintain and expand regression test suites and dashboards to monitor QoR trends.
• Provide detailed reports and insights on QoR metrics to stakeholders.
• Mentor junior QA engineers and contribute to best practices in QoR validation.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in QA or EDA tool development, with a strong focus on FPGA or ASIC design flows.
• Deep understanding of digital design, RTL (Verilog/VHDL), synthesis, and timing analysis.
• Hands-on experience with Radiant or similar FPGA design tools (e.g., Vivado, Quartus, Libero).
• Experience working with IP cores, reference designs, and customer design flows.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Tcl, or Shell.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills, especially in interpreting QoR metrics.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and automated testing frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Lattice Radiant toolchain and Lattice FPGA architectures.
• Knowledge of low-power design techniques and timing closure methodologies.
• Experience with design migration across FPGA families.
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and issue tracking tools (e.g., Jira).
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.