Senior FPGA Architect – Aerospace & Defense

Brandywine Communications; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Brandywine Communications is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to design, implement, verify, and support FPGA-based solutions across our aerospace-grade product portfolio. This role emphasizes FPGA architecture and digital logic for high‑reliability applications while aiding board-level integration, DFM, and lifecycle transition from prototype to production.

The engineer will collaborate with electrical, firmware/software, test, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to deliver robust, maintainable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related field.
• 8+ years of professional FPGA design in high-reliability aerospace/defense environments.
• Proficiency with VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog and reusable FPGA code development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain FPGA-based digital logic for new and existing products.
• Create FPGA architectures and RTL designs based on system requirements using VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog.
• Perform simulation, verification, synthesis, timing analysis, and optimization across the FPGA lifecycle.
• Develop verification strategies, test benches, and hardware validation activities.
• Integrate FPGA with processors, memory, clocks, and high-speed interfaces; troubleshoot across domains.

Skills

FPGA design

VHDL

Verilog

SystemVerilog

Vivado

Quartus

Timing analysis

Hardware debugging

Board integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Vivado

Quartus

Job description

Brandywine Communications is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to design, implement, verify, and support FPGA-based solutions across our aerospace-grade product portfolio. This role emphasizes FPGA architecture and digital logic for high‑reliability applications while aiding board-level integration, DFM, and lifecycle transition from prototype to production.

The engineer will collaborate with electrical, firmware/software, test, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to deliver robust, maintainable