R&D FPGA Engineer - Hybrid, HDL & Verification

Mission Driven Search; Los Angeles, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Mission Driven Search is seeking an R&D Engineer to join the team and contribute to design, simulation, prototyping, and testing of wireless communication and sensing projects. The role reports to the R&D Engineering Director and requires hands-on work across HDL, FPGA, and verification tasks.

The position follows a hybrid schedule with a minimum of three onsite days per week (Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a relevant field with 4 years FPGA design/testing experience or 2 years with an MS or higher.
• Demonstrated experience with multiple clock-domain, high-utilization FPGA designs.
• Experience with Xilinx FPGAs, SoCs, and the Vivado IDE.
• Experience with TCL or Python.

Responsibilities

• Architect testbenches for full-system HDL simulations.
• Maintain and improve HDL testing infrastructure.
• Automate testing with scripts.
• Collect and use code coverage data from test suites.
• Design and code HDL blocks.
• Hardware verification and troubleshooting; familiarity with logic analyzers.

Skills

FPGA design

HDL testing/verification

Clock-domain design

Xilinx FPGAs

Vivado IDE

Python

Tcl

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant field

MS or advanced degree

Tools

Vivado IDE

Xilinx FPGAs/SoCs

Job description

Mission Driven Search is seeking an R&D Engineer to join the team and contribute to design, simulation, prototyping, and testing of wireless communication and sensing projects. The role reports to the R&D Engineering Director and requires hands-on work across HDL, FPGA, and verification tasks.

The position follows a hybrid schedule with a minimum of three onsite days per week (Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays).