Senior FPGA & DSP Engineer – Real-Time RF/EW (TS/SCI)

Research Innovations Inc; Alexandria (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Research Innovations, Inc. is seeking a Senior Principal FPGA & DSP Engineer to lead FPGA firmware architecture and deliver high-performance real-time signal processing for Dragonfly systems.

You will collaborate across hardware, software, AI, and RF teams to turn advanced algorithms into deployable FPGA-based capabilities for mission-critical DoD and IC programs. The role requires extensive FPGA/DSP expertise, TS/SCI preferred, and a track record in migrating GPU DSP to FPGA implementations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field; Master's or PhD preferred.
• 10+ years of FPGA development experience supporting RF, SDR, SIGINT, radar, wireless communications, or EW systems.
• Active Secret clearance required; TS/SCI preferred.
• Expert proficiency with VHDL and/or SystemVerilog, RTL design, pipelining, clock domain crossing, timing closure.
• Experience with Vivado, Vitis, RFSoC or Versal platforms.
• DSP background including FFTs, DDC/DUC, FIR/IIR/CIC, fixed-point design, CORDIC, AGC.

Responsibilities

• Lead FPGA firmware architecture for Dragonfly, partitioning processing across FPGA, GPU, and CPU to meet latency and SWaP.
• Migrate GPU DSP algorithms to FPGA implementations, including precision and verification.
• Design reusable FPGA IP for multiple AMD/Xilinx platforms including RFSoC, Versal, UltraScale+, Zynq.
• Develop real-time FPGA implementations for RF signal processing: DDC, filtering, FFTs, channelization, synchronization.
• Implement wireless protocol processing for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth/BLE, LoRa, LTE, 5G NR.
• Develop FPGA capabilities for direction finding, beamforming, geolocation, and multi-channel processing.
• Establish verification methodologies: simulation, regression tests, timing closure, hardware validation, OTA tests.
• Support bring-up, integration, production validation, and field testing of Dragonfly systems.
• Serve as technical authority for FPGA firmware and DSP architecture; mentor engineers and establish best practices.
• Contribute to product roadmap, customer engagements, proposals, IRAD and EW/SIGINT development.

Skills

VHDL/SystemVerilog

Vivado/Vitis

DSP/FFT/Fixed-point

C/C++ in Linux

MATLAB/Python

Git/Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE/CE/CS

Master's or PhD preferred

Tools

AMD/Xilinx tools

RFSoC/Versal platforms

High-Level Synthesis (HLS)

Job description

Research Innovations, Inc. is seeking a Senior Principal FPGA & DSP Engineer to lead FPGA firmware architecture and deliver high-performance real-time signal processing for Dragonfly systems.

You will collaborate across hardware, software, AI, and RF teams to turn advanced algorithms into deployable FPGA-based capabilities for mission-critical DoD and IC programs. The role requires extensive FPGA/DSP expertise, TS/SCI preferred, and a track record in migrating GPU DSP to FPGA implementations.