Senior FPGA Engineer - Embedded Defense Hardware & Roadmaps

Slope; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, California, is seeking a Senior Hardware Product Lead to own the hardware roadmap and drive cross‑functional teams across electrical, firmware, FPGA, and test.

You will supervise the full lifecycle for high‑reliability PCBs and system integration, collaborating with customers to define requirements and ensure on‑time delivery of robust embedded solutions for vehicle management and networking.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• 7+ years designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex board designs in military, automotive or similar hardware.
• Experience leading cross-functional hardware and/or embedded systems product development teams, taking products from concept to deployment.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Define, own, and execute the product portfolio and roadmap for critical core technology products, helping to lead a cross-functional engineering team to deliver embedded compute solutions for vehicle management, DSP, and networking.
• Drive and oversee the full hardware product development lifecycle, from concept to test and deployment for high-performance PCBs such as host boards for FPGAs/SoCs/SoMs.
• Establish and optimize product development workflows and best practices across hardware and firmware lifecycles.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define product requirements, develop strategic roadmaps, and ensure scalable deployment of core technology solutions.
• Manage and communicate detailed development schedules, milestones, and deliverables within the cross-functional team.

Skills

Lead hardware product development

Cross-functional leadership

VHDL

Verilog

High reliability aerospace hardware

Signal integrity / power integrity

Altium Designer

Flight software architectures

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Altium Designer

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Thermal chambers

Current probes

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, California, is seeking a Senior Hardware Product Lead to own the hardware roadmap and drive cross‑functional teams across electrical, firmware, FPGA, and test.

You will supervise the full lifecycle for high‑reliability PCBs and system integration, collaborating with customers to define requirements and ensure on‑time delivery of robust embedded solutions for vehicle management and networking.