Senior FPGA Design Engineer – Avionics & Embedded

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking a Senior FPGA Design Engineer to design and integrate RTL for FPGA/SoC platforms used in high-performance embedded systems and avionics.

You will drive RTL from requirements to lab bring-up, collaborating across hardware, software, and verification teams to deliver mission-critical hardware with rigorous timing and reliability requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of FPGA, ASIC, or closely related digital design experience.
• Proficiency in VHDL and/or Verilog/SystemVerilog.
• Hands-on experience with simulation, synthesis, implementation, and timing closure on modern FPGA platforms.
• Hands-on debug experience in simulation and on hardware.
• Strong digital design fundamentals, including clocking, resets, state machines, CDC awareness, and interface design.
• Proficiency with Linux-based development environments, Git-based workflows, and Tcl and/or Python scripting.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement RTL in VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog for FPGA and SoC-based systems.
• Translate system and hardware requirements into microarchitecture, interface definitions, and implementation plans.
• Own FPGA designs or major functional blocks from architecture through integration, timing closure, and lab debug.
• Develop and execute simulation, synthesis, and implementation flows, including timing and resource closure.
• Debug functional, timing, and integration issues in simulation and on hardware.
• Support board bring-up, lab validation, and system integration on target platforms.
• Collaborate with hardware, embedded software, systems, and verification engineers to deliver complete solutions.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and technical documentation.
• Contribute to reusable design practices, coding standards, and development workflows.
• Support rapid prototyping while maintaining the engineering rigor required for production hardware.

Skills

FPGA design

Verilog/SystemVerilog

VHDL

Digital design

Synthesis/Timing

Linux

Git

Python scripting

Strong communication

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

Xilinx

Intel/Altera

Lattice

Vitis tooling

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking a Senior FPGA Design Engineer to design and integrate RTL for FPGA/SoC platforms used in high-performance embedded systems and avionics.

You will drive RTL from requirements to lab bring-up, collaborating across hardware, software, and verification teams to deliver mission-critical hardware with rigorous timing and reliability requirements.