Principal Engineer - FPGA

Principal FPGA & Embedded Software Engineer Are you a Technical Support Engineer looking for an interesting and inspiring opportunity? Would you enjoy designing innovative software for energy products? Partner with the best

Baker Hughes is a global energy technology company serving the oil and gas sector across more than 120 countries. The Commercial & Sales organization drives growth by building strong customer partnerships, commercializing hydrocarbons, and delivering integrated equipment and service solutions. With a focus on digital transformation and energy transition, the team leverages data‑driven insights to optimize sales performance and maximize customer value.

The Waygate Technologies site in Skaneateles, NY specializes in Remote Visual Inspection equipment, with our industrial borescope leading the world with our measurement capability. A typical application would use our borescopes to peer inside the combustion chamber of a jet engine to locate and measure a dent, crack, or other defect to within several thousandths of an inch! Everything is located right in Skaneateles, NY, from R&D, manufacturing, software development, and repair leading to constant collaboration between teams.

We are seeking a Principal FPGA & Embedded Software Engineer to serve as the technical owner of our FPGA architecture and image data pipeline. This is a hands on individual contributor role with significant influence over system architecture, HW/SW partitioning, and long‑term technology direction.

You will be the expert for FPGA design and image chain implementation, working closely with electrical, software, and mechanical engineers. As the organization grows, this role has a clear path to technical or team leadership, based on interest and performance.

• Owning the FPGA architecture for image acquisition, processing, and data movement across image sensors, memory, processors, and display/recording subsystems.
• Designing, implementing, and optimizing FPGA logic with a focus on timing closure, resource efficiency, determinism, and scalability.
• Developing and integrating FPGA IP related to image sensors, high‑speed video/data interfaces, DMA, and control paths.
• Documenting FPGA design, build, validation, and deployment processes.

• Developing and maintaining Linux kernel drivers and low‑level software for FPGA IP in a Xilinx Petalinux environment.
• Defining HW/SW partitioning and system interfaces (FPGA ↔ CPU ↔ GPU/DSP).
• Supporting system bring‑up, debugging, and performance tuning across FPGA, boot loader, kernel, and user space.
• Collaborating with software teams on control, visualization, and automation strategies.

• Have a B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related engineering degree from an accredited college or university.
• Have strong experience in FPGA development (Verilog/VHDL/System Verilog).
• Have a proven ability to achieve timing closure and resource optimization on complex designs.
• Have experience developing Linux kernel drivers or low‑level embedded software for FPGA‑based systems.
• Have familiarity with Xilinx tool chains, including Petalinux and associated build flows.
• Have experience with image sensors, video pipelines, or high‑bandwidth data paths.
• Have hands‑on system bring‑up and debugging experience on custom hardware.

• Have experience influencing or reviewing schematic and PCB designs (Altium or similar).
• Have a background in DSP concepts related to imaging or signal processing.
• Have experience supporting manufacturing test and production ramp‑up.
• Have prior technical leadership or architecture ownership in an R&D environment.

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• The position requires individuals to be on‑site so they can work with the various design and development teams along with…