FPGA / RTL Design Engineering Intern (VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog) – Barcelona

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Keysight is looking for a highly motivated FPGA / RTL Design Engineering Intern (VHDL / Verilog / SystemVerilog) to join our engineering team in Barcelona, Spain, and contribute to the development of high-performance FPGA-based systems.

This internship is ideal for students passionate about digital hardware design, working close to silicon, and building real digital systems used in advanced test and measurement solutions.

• Design and implement RTL for FPGA-based systems using VHDL, Verilog or SystemVerilog
• Develop and execute testbenches for functional verification
• Work with FPGA toolchains (AMD/Xilinx Vivado, Intel/Altera Quartus) from synthesis to implementation
• Integrate, debug and validate designs on real FPGA hardware (e.g. Zynq UltraScale+, RFSoC or similar platforms)
• Analyze and optimize designs for timing closure, latency and resource utilization
• Collaborate with engineers on digital signal processing (DSP), high-speed interfaces and system integration

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Digital Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related field
• Must remain enrolled for the full duration of the internship, and your university must be able to sign an internship agreement (convenio de prácticas) with Keysight
• Fluent English (B2–C1 or higher), spoken and written. You will use English every day to work with international colleagues and teams.
• Hands-on experience with FPGA development
• Experience writing RTL (VHDL, Verilog or SystemVerilog)
• Experience with simulation and testbench environments (ModelSim, QuestaSim or similar simulators)
• Familiarity with FPGA tools such as Vivado or similar
• Experience implementing and validating designs on real FPGA hardware

Candidates must be able to demonstrate at least one end-to-end FPGA project beyond standard coursework (design → simulation → implementation → validation), for example a final thesis (TFG/TFM), research, competition or personal project.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of AXI / AXI4 / AXI-Stream interfaces
• Experience with SoC FPGA platforms (Zynq, RFSoC)
• Background in signal processing, DSP or RF systems
• Experience with timing closure and optimization
• Programming languages: Python, C++
• Hands-on experience with hardware (HW) set-up and lab debugging (e.g. oscilloscope, logic analyzer)

Additional information:

This role does not offer visa sponsorship. Candidates must already be legally able to do an internship in Spain at the time of application.