Digital Hardware Engineer II – FPGA/ASIC for Aerospace

Prattwhitney; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 76,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

RTX seeks a highly motivated Digital Hardware Design Engineer to join our hardware engineering team. You will contribute to the design, verification, and validation of airborne radar hardware for defense and aerospace applications, working with RTL development, FPGA/ASIC design, and hardware bring‑up.

You will collaborate with senior engineers across verification, physical design, firmware, and system engineering, while applying industry-standard EDA tools, performing timing and power tradeoffs,

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related STEM; obtained by start date.
• Strong understanding of digital logic design fundamentals and RTL/FPGA/ASIC workflows; HDL experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement digital hardware blocks using Verilog/SystemVerilog or VHDL.
• Develop RTL for FPGA and/or ASIC-based systems.
• Participate in architecture discussions and technical design reviews.
• Create and execute simulation testbenches for functional verification.
• Debug RTL, simulation, synthesis, and hardware integration issues.
• Collaborate with verification, physical design, firmware, and system engineering teams.
• Support FPGA prototyping, lab bring-up, and silicon validation activities.
• Analyze timing, area, power, and performance tradeoffs.
• Document designs, test plans, and engineering results.

Skills

Verilog/SystemVerilog

RTL design

FPGA/ASIC development

VHDL

DSP

Education

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related STEM

Tools

Xilinx Vivado

Intel Quartus

ModelSim/Questa

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

RTX seeks a highly motivated Digital Hardware Design Engineer to join our hardware engineering team. You will contribute to the design, verification, and validation of airborne radar hardware for defense and aerospace applications, working with RTL development, FPGA/ASIC design, and hardware bring‑up.

You will collaborate with senior engineers across verification, physical design, firmware, and system engineering, while applying industry-standard EDA tools, performing timing and power tradeoffs,