Senior Principal Engineer - FPGA

Prattwhitney; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal coupons

Group Health Insurance

Vacation leave

Employee scholar programme

Work life balance

Car lease programme

National Pension Scheme

LTA

Meal vouchers

Job summary

RTX is recruiting for a senior role in FPGA/ASIC design to lead development and certification activities for avionics products. You will drive DO‑254 compliance, work with systems, hardware and software teams, and mentor Engineers across experience levels.

The role emphasizes model-based design using MATLAB and expertise in high-speed protocols. Hybrid work arrangement in Bengaluru, with engagement across engineering, certification and program management teams to deliver certified avionics

Qualifications

• Engineering degree and minimum 15 years of relevant FPGA/ASIC design experience.
• Experience leading multiple FPGA/ASIC development projects for Aerospace products from concept till DO‑254 certification.
• Experience in FPGA obsolescence redesign and DO‑254 certification.
• Experience in FPGA development using Model‑Based Design with MATLAB.
• Experience in high‑speed serial protocols, image and video processing domains.
• Experience with VHDL and SV/UVM.
• Experience leading technical projects including customer interaction and briefing leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of high‑performance FPGA architectures for various product lines.
• Lead DO‑254 compliance and certification activities for FPGA‑based avionics products.
• Coordinate with engineering, quality, and certification teams to support product certification.
• Work with systems engineers, hardware designers, embedded software teams, and test/validation groups for cohesive development.
• Lead timing closure strategies to meet real-time latency, throughput, and power requirements.
• Lead FPGA/ASIC obsolescence management and redesign/migration strategies.
• Mentor engineers across experience levels and guide AI tool usage for the team.

Skills

FPGA/ASIC design

Verification

DO-254 certification

Model-Based Design

VHDL

SV/UVM

High-speed protocols

Leadership

Customer interaction

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Jira

Jama

DOORS

Subversion

Microsoft Project

Job description

Date Posted: 2026-11-03 Country: India Location: IN-KA-BENGALURU-NORTHGATE ~ Sy No 2/2 Venkatala Village ~ SY NO 2/2 VENKATALA VILLAGE, Yelahanka Hobli Position Role Type: Hybrid

About RTX

RTX is a global aerospace and defense company with more than 185,000 employees worldwide. We push the boundaries of technology and innovation to help create a safer, more connected world. Through our industry‑leading businesses—Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon— we deliver advanced solutions for commercial aviation, defense, and connected technologies.

About Collins Aerospace

Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, is a leader in aerospace and defense technologies, delivering intelligent solutions that redefine the future of aviation. Our Digital Technology (DT) organization enables business transformation by providing secure, scalable, and innovative digital solutions that support our global operations, customers, and suppliers. Join our Digital Technology team and play a key role in driving digital transformation across our global Supply Chain organization while collaborating with talented professionals around the world.

What You Will Do

Lead development of high-performance reusable FPGA architectures for various product lines. Lead DO-254 compliance and certification activities for FPGA‑based avionics products, providing technical leadership across planning, development, verification, validation, and certification documentation. Drive compliance with DO‑254 processes and coordinate with engineering, quality, and certification teams to support successful product certification. Work closely with systems engineers, hardware designers, embedded software teams, and test/validation groups to ensure cohesive product development. Lead timing closure strategies and performance optimizations to meet real‑time latency, throughput, and power requirements. Lead FPGA/ASIC obsolescence management across products, driving lifecycle monitoring, risk assessment, alternate part evaluation, and FPGA/ASIC redesign/migration strategies. Lead FPGA development using Model‑Based Design with MATLAB/Simulink for different Avionics products. Drive algorithm modelling, simulation, FPGA implementation, verification, and providing technical leadership across projects and teams. Evaluate and recommend next‑generation FPGA families, IP cores, high‑speed transceivers, and design tools to improve performance and reduce risk. Author and review detailed design specifications, interface control documents, verification plans, and executive summaries for stakeholders. Guide selection, deployment, and optimization of FPGA EDA tools, building automation systems, and continuous integration practices tailored for avionics development. Mentor engineers across experience levels‑guiding complex design decisions, performance tradeoffs. Able to use AI tools and provide guidance to the team. Communicate with a wide variety of individuals including Engineering, Program Management, Internal Leadership, and Customers.

What You Will Learn

You will learn the technologies of today and tomorrow which we count on to maintain world leadership in the avionics industry. You will learn all phases of the hardware product life cycle from requirements through to verification, while employing the company engineering processes to produce high‑quality products. You will learn the requirements for product certification required by federal agencies. You will learn how to establish and maintain a computing module platform product line with a broad base of customers.

Qualifications

You Must Have Engineering Degree and minimum 15 years prior relevant experience in FPGA/ASIC design and verification. Experience with leading multiple FPGA/ASIC development projects for Aerospace products from concept till DO‑254 certification. Experience in FPGA/ASIC obsolescence redesign and DO‑254 certification. Experience in FPGA development using Model‑Based Design with MATLAB. Experience in high‑speed serial protocols, Image and Video Processing domains. Experience with VHDL and SV/UVM. Experience leading technical projects including customer interaction and briefing leadership.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Able to interface within the wide spectrum of individual contributors to program management and customers.
• The ability to effectively document and present one’s work and status.
• Experience with Change Management, Earned Value Management and Lifecycle Program Management.
• Experience with Microsoft Project, Subversion, Jira, Jama, DOORS, and other documentation tools.

WE ARE REDEFINING AEROSPACE.

Please consider the following role type definitions as you apply for this role. Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products. Hybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite. Ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader. Remote: Employees who are working in Remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home). An employee may be expected to travel to the site location as needed. Regardless of your role type, collaboration and innovation are critical to our business and all employees will have access to digital tools so they can work with colleagues around the world – and access to Collins sites when their work requires in‑person meetings.

Benefits Package

• Meal coupons
• Group Term Life Insurance.
• Group Health Insurance.
• Group Personal Accident Insurance.
• Entitled for 18 days of vacation and 12 days of contingency leave annually.
• Employee scholar programme.
• Work life balance.
• Car lease programme.
• National Pension Scheme
• LTA
• Fuel & Maintenance /Driver wages
• Meal vouchers

Nothing matters more to Collins Aerospace than our strong ethical and safety commitments. As such, all India positions require a background check, which may include a drug screen. Note: Background check and drug screen required (every external new hire in the India) Drug Screen only performed for Operations Positions

All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry‑leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.