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Expert Logic Design Engineer
Description Ciklum
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Fast read
Opportunity DNA
What stands out most is that location flexibility looks unusually broad. The biggest counterweight is that the pay picture is incomplete.
A financial comparison will need the approved compensation range.
No material geography, office-attendance or timezone restriction is visible in the available wording.
One or more material qualification requirements are stated and may narrow the realistic applicant pool.
Sponsorship and relocation support are not clear from the current listing.
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At least one recent enabled source can still renew this vacancy.
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Facts already stated
- Work arrangement
- Advertised location
- Application closing time
- Employment type
What to verify next
- Compensation: What is the approved compensation range, and what portion is guaranteed base pay rather than variable compensation?
Advertised location is not proof of work authorization, sponsorship, or legal eligibility. Unknown information is not a negative score; verify those questions separately.
Decision levers
What could make or break the fit?
Reasons to look closer
- Location flexibility looks unusually broad: The available wording supports high Remote Freedom without a material geography, office-attendance or timezone restriction showing up.
Trade-offs to weigh
- The pay picture is incomplete: No usable salary range is stated, so a meaningful financial comparison is not possible yet.
- The experience requirement raises the entry bar: The listing appears to require at least about 6 years of experience.
Questions worth asking before you invest more time
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Salary transparency context
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Questions worth taking into the offer conversation
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- How much paid leave is provided and what are the carry-over or blackout rules?
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- What exact sponsorship or work-authorization conditions apply to this role?
- When is the first performance and compensation review after joining?
Skill bridge
What does this role connect to?
The listing contains useful skill signals, while the current occupation sample is still too thin for a broader comparison.
Skills named in this listing
Shared with the current career sample
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Application edge
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- The listing states about 6 years of required experience. Check that the dates and scope in your application make that experience easy to verify.
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At least about 6 years of experience required
The available wording contains an explicit minimum/required years-of-experience signal. Preferred years are tracked separately and never promoted into the required minimum.
Python
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Questions worth resolving before you rely on the opportunity
- Compensation: What is the approved compensation range, and what portion is guaranteed base pay rather than variable compensation?
- Work authorization / sponsorship: If sponsorship or work authorization matters to you, what exact immigration or employer-sponsorship conditions apply to this role?
- Application process: What interview, assessment, portfolio, reference or screening stages are part of the hiring process?
Decision analysis
What the listing really tells you
For Expert Logic Design Engineer at Description Ciklum, the most useful clues right now are the location rules are clear enough to judge, the listing gives useful clues about who can realistically enter, and the visible application effort can be estimated. Looking at them together makes the trade-offs easier to see.
The location rules are clear enough to judge
The work-location pattern is “Highly location-flexible”, with Remote Freedom at 96/100.
The listing gives useful clues about who can realistically enter
At least about 6 years of experience required · 1 additional stated barrier. Unstated education or experience requirements stay open rather than being assumed.
The visible application effort can be estimated
Provider-mediated application path. The external application may contain additional steps that are not visible from the listing itself.
Source continuity adds useful context
1 recent enabled source can currently renew this vacancy across 1 source classes. That improves traceability, although it does not verify the employer itself.
How this analysis is assembled
The brief pulls together the parts of the vacancy that can be compared reliably today. Gaps in the listing remain visible instead of being filled with assumptions.
Analysis evidence coverage
How much analysis can the current evidence support?
This title does not yet fit a reliable comparison family, so a pay percentile is not shown.
Measures observable location flexibility and explicit restrictions; it does not determine whether remote work is personally desirable.
Missing compensation is not treated as negative evidence; this dimension simply remains unavailable.
The source posting date is today.
At least one enabled source recently observed the vacancy. The source chain is traceable, but this is not independent employer verification.
There is no universal opportunity score because pay, flexibility and access matter differently to different people. Compare Jobs lets you weight the evidence around your own priorities.
Decision checklist
What is supported, uncertain or worth checking?
This checklist separates supported strengths, visible cautions and missing evidence. It is not an overall recommendation or guarantee that the job is suitable for you.
Supported strengths
- The available work-location evidence indicates strong location flexibility.
Visible cautions
- The listing appears to require substantial prior experience.
- The description appears to mention an advanced degree requirement or preference.
- At least about 6 years of experience required
Still unknown
- There is not enough comparable salary evidence to establish this job’s current pay position.
- Visa sponsorship is not established by the available listing data.
Pay vs. barriers
Opportunity Efficiency not assessed
The current pay position is not reliable enough to weigh compensation against the stated barriers.
1 explicit required barrier is visible in the available wording.
The listing states at least about 6 years of required experience.
- Current comparable pay position is unavailable.
- Education requirement is not established.
This section weighs pay context against clearly stated barriers without collapsing unlike requirements into one universal score. Degree, experience, licensing, clearance and location limits remain separate, and missing qualification details stay unknown.
Beyond the headline
Not enough evidence for a hidden-value finding
Potential hidden value appears only when several distinct non-pay advantages are actually supported. Missing requirements or benefits are never counted as positives.
The observable Remote Freedom evidence is strong and contains few explicit restriction signals.
Still check: At least about 6 years of experience required · The current application path is provider-mediated rather than directly classified as an employer-authorized or official route.
Hidden Value is an experimental evidence summary, not an investment-style score or guarantee of employability. It only uses explicit current listing evidence and does not infer that an unmentioned qualification is unnecessary.
Explainable opportunity highlight
Why this opportunity stands out
These are supported signals from the current listing and comparison sample—not a guarantee that this is the best job for you.
The observable work-location signals indicate unusually strong location flexibility.
The source posting date is today.
Compensation intelligence
How competitive is this pay?
This title does not yet fit a reliable comparison family, so a pay percentile is not shown.
Why this analysis?
- This title does not yet fit a reliable comparison family, so a pay percentile is not shown.
- Salary confidence: Not available. No disclosed salary can currently be normalized for comparison. Missing compensation is not treated as low-quality salary evidence.
- Range quality: No disclosed range.
Employer compensation communication
Pay transparency at Description Ciklum
Limited current pay transparency
This score uses the employer’s current visible listings and combines how often pay is disclosed with how useful those ranges are. Bonus, equity and benefit mentions are shown separately and do not raise the score.
This pattern comes from the employer’s current visible vacancies. It describes hiring and pay transparency in those listings, not employee satisfaction or a permanent judgement of the employer.
Current employer intelligence
Description Ciklum — current opportunity snapshot
Employer Evidence Profile
How often this employer’s current visible sampled vacancies state decision-critical information. These percentages describe evidence coverage, not employer quality.
Current sampled listings with advertised compensation evidence.
Current sampled listings whose work arrangement is clearer than unknown.
Current sampled listings with a supported country signal.
Current sampled listings with an explicit closing time.
Current sampled listings with a usable posting date.
Current sampled listings that explicitly indicate confirmed, possible or unavailable sponsorship evidence.
Current sampled listings with an explicit relocation signal.
Low coverage means the current visible listings state the information less often. It does not prove that the employer lacks the policy, benefit or support.
Common current occupation families: Data & AI (1)
Visible seniority mix: Mid-career (1) · Senior / lead (4)
Current employment-type mix: Full time (5)
Other current roles from this employer
Senior Data Engineer
Remote — Worldwide
Senior / lead · Worldwide remoteExpert Logic Design Engineer
Remote — Worldwide
Senior / lead · Worldwide remoteExpert Software (Kinaxis Maestro) Engineer
Remote — Worldwide
Senior / lead · Worldwide remoteDelivery Coordinator
Remote — Worldwide
Mid-career · Worldwide remoteThese are other current vacancies visible from the same employer, not endorsements or evidence of future hiring plans.
There are not yet five current disclosed salaries in one currency, so an employer pay median would be too thin to be useful.
Questions worth asking this employer
- What compensation range applies to this role, and which parts of total compensation are fixed versus variable?
- If work authorization matters to you, what sponsorship policy applies to this specific role and location?
- If a move is required, is relocation assistance available for this position?
These questions are prompted by missing or thin evidence in the employer’s current visible vacancies. Missing evidence is not treated as a negative judgement.
This employer snapshot uses the employer’s current visible listings. Remote and sponsorship rates use only vacancies with explicit evidence, while missing information stays unknown. Salary medians are shown separately by currency and need at least five disclosed salaries. Zero confirmed sponsorship means none was explicitly found in this sample, not that sponsorship is unavailable.
This snapshot describes the employer’s current visible vacancies—things such as pay disclosure and work arrangement. It is not an employee-satisfaction or hiring-quality rating, and different currencies stay separate.
Work-location intelligence
Remote Freedom
Highly location-flexible
Why this score?
- The source describes the role as open worldwide or globally.
Flexibility signals detected
- Worldwide or global remote eligibility is explicitly indicated.
Remote Freedom measures observable location flexibility only. Unknown work-location information remains unscored. Timezone wording is penalized only when it appears restrictive; general collaboration across time zones is not treated as a restriction. A score does not guarantee legal work eligibility, payroll availability or visa sponsorship.
International applicant intelligence
Visa & relocation signals
Sponsorship status is shown only when the listing provides clear enough wording. Employer history or headquarters location is not used to guess an answer.
The available listing details do not contain a clear enough sponsorship statement.
The available listing details do not contain a clear enough relocation statement.
Tradeoff check
What’s the catch?
These are visible conditions worth checking before treating the headline compensation as the whole story:
- The listing appears to require substantial prior experience.
- The description appears to mention an advanced degree requirement or preference.
Application-path intelligence
What can we see about the application process?
Provider-mediated application path
The current application path comes through a publisher or aggregator. The destination may still lead to an employer-authorized hiring system, but that is not clear enough to assume.
Current destination: himalayas.app · HTTPS
No additional required application step is clear in the available listing text. This does not mean the external application is one-click or friction-free.
Application effort is estimated from visible listing and source details. Optional steps are kept separate from mandatory ones, and the external form may contain additional requirements that are not visible here.
Application safety context
Application safety check
Basic application-safety context available
The current application destination has a basic transport-safety signal such as HTTPS. This does not verify the employer, vacancy, recruiter or application process.
Evidence checked: Source provenance · Application destination · Listing wording
Observable transport-safety signals
- The available application destination uses HTTPS.
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Original listing details
The section below comes from the listing source. The decision sections above use the job’s structured pay, location, qualification, mobility and application details to give you additional context.
Ciklum is looking for a Expert Logic Design Engineer to join our team full-time in Ukraine.
We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.
About the role:
We are looking for an Expert Logic Design Engineer to take a leading technical role in the architecture, design, and optimization of next-generation FPGA and ASIC-based control platforms.
Our client is an innovative technology company developing advanced control and measurement systems for quantum computing. Its hardware and software platforms enable precise, real-time control of complex quantum systems, supporting the evolution of quantum computing from individual qubits to large-scale architectures.
This position involves solving challenging digital design problems with extremely demanding timing, latency, and performance requirements. You will work closely with system architects, verification engineers, software developers, and hardware specialists, driving technical decisions and contributing to the development of proprietary digital IP.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the architecture, microarchitecture, and RTL implementation of complex, high-performance FPGA/ASIC digital subsystems
- Design and optimize highly configurable, ultra-low-latency digital logic using SystemVerilog
- Drive end-to-end digital IP development, from system requirements and architectural trade-offs to RTL implementation and integration
- Make architectural decisions to optimize timing performance, latency, resource utilization, scalability, and power efficiency
- Address complex timing closure, clock-domain crossing, synchronization, and critical-path optimization challenges
- Develop advanced digital processing and control architectures, including signal processing pipelines, waveform generation, and deterministic real-time control
- Define hardware-software interfaces and collaborate with software and system architecture teams to ensure efficient system integration
- Work closely with verification engineers to define verification strategies and ensure robust functional coverage
- Review RTL designs, identify architectural and implementation risks, and provide technical guidance to other engineers
- Contribute to the evolution of FPGA-based platforms and the development of reusable digital IP for future ASIC implementations
- Drive engineering best practices, design quality, and technical improvements across the development lifecycle
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of professional experience in complex FPGA or ASIC digital logic design
- Expert-level proficiency in SystemVerilog RTL design (mandatory)
- Extensive experience defining digital architectures and microarchitectures for complex hardware systems
- Proven track record of independently delivering complex digital IP or subsystems from specification to implementation
- Deep understanding of RTL optimization, logic synthesis, static timing analysis (STA), and timing closure
- Strong experience optimizing digital designs for deterministic latency, high clock frequencies, resource utilization, and power efficiency
- Advanced knowledge of synchronous digital design, CDC, clocking architectures, and hardware interfaces
- Strong understanding of FPGA and/or ASIC development methodologies and implementation constraints
- Experience with simulation-based verification and debugging of complex digital systems
- Ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs, resolve challenging technical issues, and guide implementation decisions
- Strong technical leadership, analytical, and communication skills
- English proficiency sufficient for effective collaboration within an international engineering team
Desirable:
- Extensive experience with AMD/Xilinx FPGA architectures, particularly AMD Versal
- Advanced experience with AMD Vivado, FPGA implementation, and timing closure
- Familiarity with Synopsys VCS, Siemens Questa, and related verification/debugging tools
- Experience with ASIC digital IP development and FPGA-to-ASIC design considerations
- Experience designing complex DSP pipelines, waveform generation engines, or real-time control architectures
- Deep understanding of deterministic, nanosecond-scale timing and synchronization
- Experience with high-speed interfaces such as AXI, PCIe, DDR, or proprietary interconnects
- Experience with performance, area, and power (PPA) optimization
- Knowledge of Python, Tcl, or other languages used for EDA workflow automation
- Experience leading technical design reviews or mentoring senior engineers
- Background in quantum computing, semiconductor development, telecommunications, high-performance instrumentation, or similar advanced technology domains
What’s in it for you?
- Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
- Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
- Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
- Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
- Flexibility: Enjoy radical flexibility – work remotely or from an office, your choice
- Care: We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations
About us:
At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.
As one of Ukraine’s largest IT companies and a top employer recognized by Forbes, we’ve spent over 20 years delivering meaningful tech solutions. We proudly support diverse talent and military veterans, recognizing their unique skills and perspectives they bring to shaping the future.
Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!
Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.
Originally posted on Himalayas
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- One renewable source class
- Last source observation
- Observed today
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