FPGA Engineer

Permanent employee, Full-time · Garching b. München (DE)

Your mission

As a FPGA Engineer, you will be part of the electrical engineering team developing cutting-edge FPGA systems for neutral atom quantum computers. In close collaboration with the quantum hardware and software teams, you will design, implement, and optimize high-performance real-time control and data acquisition systems that enable the precise manipulation of individual atoms with nanosecond accuracy. Your work will be central to advancing the performance and scalability of our quantum computers and unlocking new quantum algorithms and applications.

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement SystemVerilog/Verilog modules for quantum control systems including:

Real-time distributed signal acquisition and generation with high-speed ADC/DAC
Integration of vision interfaces e.g. CameraLink, CoaXpress, or DisplayPort/HDMI
Creation of comprehensive testbenches and simulation modules using SystemVerilog/Verilog and/or Python (cocotb)
Co-design memory-mapped firmware and software for PS-PL interfaces on SoC’s
Design of robust clocking and trigger architectures for multi-board synchronisation

Your responsibilities

Necessary Requirements

3+ years of FPGA development experience (equivalent to 1+ with Master’s degree)
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or relevant field
Proficiency in synthesizable SystemVerilog, Verilog, or VHDL and functional verification of development modules
Experience with timing closure and static timing analysis of pre- and post- implemented designs with multiple high-speed clock domains
Prior project experience related to image/signal processing or control engineering
Extensive knowledge of ARM AXI4, AXIStream, and AXI-Lite bus protocols
Development of firmware on SoCs for ARM, RISC-V, or PC400 architectures
Ability to work effectively with experimental physicists and engineers

Supplementary Skills:

Controlling high-bandwidth (> 1 GSPS) ADC/DACs
Rapid, high-fidelity camera acquisition and in-memory image processing
Projects based on Xilinx SoC devices and toolchains: Vivado, Vitis/SDK
Generation and management of embedded OS and BSP with Yocto or Petalinux

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About us

planqc builds neutral-atom quantum computers based on arrays of optically trapped atoms controlled with high-precision laser systems. Our platform combines technologies from optical lattice clocks, quantum gas microscopes and fast Rydberg gates into a scalable computing architecture.

Founded in 2022 as a spin-off from MPQ and LMU Munich, we translate more than a decade of AMO research into deployable quantum systems. Our work spans vacuum and laser hardware, control electronics, firmware, system software and algorithm integration. We focus on turning complex experimental setups into stable, reproducible systems that operate in real computing environments.

Behind this technology is a team that pushes technical boundaries, values open exchange and shared ownership. Physicists, engineers, software developers and business specialists work closely together, often across disciplinary limits. We believe progress comes from combining deep expertise with practical engineering and from giving people the responsibility and trust to shape their domain.

As we grow across our locations in Garching, Ulm and Innsbruck, we continue to build an environment we continue to build a company where people take ownership, learn from each other, and directly shape the systems we bring into operation.

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