Sr. FPGA Design Engineer, Radar

Reliable Robotics; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 215,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock option awards

Benefits package

Job summary

Reliable Robotics seeks a Senior FPGA Design Engineer to own the full FPGA lifecycle for the Air to Air Radar system from architecture to testing. You will translate MATLAB algorithms to fixed-point VHDL and verify real-time performance.

You will collaborate with avionics and radar teams, define FPGA requirements, and ensure high-quality hardware through iterative reviews within a fast-paced development environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering (or equivalent).
• 8+ years of full-cycle electronics hardware development experience.
• Professional experience designing FPGA digital logic using industry-standard design, simulation, and synthesis tools.

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of FPGA design, including architecture, implementation, synthesis, hardware integration, and testing for the radar system.
• Translate MATLAB algorithms to fixed-point VHDL implementations and verify real-time performance.
• Define high-level FPGA requirements and hardware/software interfaces with avionics/radar teams; conduct tradeoffs.
• Collaborate in a fast-paced, agile development environment with mutual peer reviews to ensure quality.

Skills

FPGA design

Fixed-point DSP

MATLAB to VHDL

Agile development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Tools

FPGA design tools

MATLAB

HDL simulators

Job description

We're building safety-enhancing technology for aviation that will save lives. Automated aviation systems will enable a future where air transportation is safer, more convenient and fundamentally transformative to the way goods - and eventually people - move around the planet. We are a team of mission-driven engineers with experience across aerospace, robotics and self-driving cars working to make this future a reality.

As a Sr. FPGA Design Engineer at Reliable Robotics you will be a part of the FPGA team which owns the firmware at the heart of the Reliable Robotics phased array radar. Phased array radar systems have historically been reserved for specialized applications, but we're making this technology affordable to enable Detect and Avoid for widespread commercial applications. This role will focus on new advanced operational modes. The passion for revolutionary technology to make aviation safer motivates us to come in every day.

Responsibilities

In your role as a Sr. FPGA Design Engineer, you will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of the FPGA design including product architecture, implementation, synthesis, hardware integration, and testing for our Air to Air Radar solution. You will coordinate with the avionics and radar teams to establish high-level FPGA requirements as well as hardware/software interfaces. You will be responsible for translating MATLAB algorithms to fixed point VHDL implementations, conducting system architecture performance tradeoffs, and verifying real-time performance. You will work in a collaborative development environment including mutual peer review to maintain high product quality.

Basic Success Criteria

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
• 8+ years of full-cycle electronics hardware development experience in a professional environment
• Professional experience designing FPGA digital logic using industry-standard design, simulation, and synthesis tools

Preferred Criteria

• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
• Experience working with RADAR or RF transceivers
• Proven track record of product ownership including development and field support
• Experience with safety-critical FPGA development (DO-254 level A/B or equivalent industry standard)
• Experience architecting, implementing, and verifying fixed point DSP algorithms
• Comfortable with a fast-paced, agile/iterative development life cycle
• Pragmatic, results-oriented work style

FPGA designers at Reliable Robotics have a unique opportunity to work within a vertically integrated technology stack that extends up to the aircraft level, with a direct impact on the aircraft's capabilities and requirements. They execute a focused mission to establish the foundation of Reliable's technology roadmap. We are a fast-paced team that gets results. With your experience, motivation, skills, and enthusiasm, you'll help the team accomplish amazing things.

The position will be located at our facility in Seattle, WA. Must be willing to travel 10% of the time.

The estimated salary range for this position is $215,000 to $300,000/annual salary and stock option awards + benefits. At Reliable Robotics, we strive to provide competitive and rewarding compensation based on experience and expertise, as well as market conditions, location, and pay equity.

This position requires access to information that is subject to U.S. export controls. An offer of employment will be contingent upon the applicant's capacity to perform in compliance with U.S. export control laws.

All applicants are asked to provide documentation that legally establishes status as a U.S. person or non-U.S. person (and nationalities in the case of a non-U.S. person). Where the applicant is not a U.S. person, meaning not a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident, (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. * 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. * 1158, or not otherwise permitted to access the export-controlled technology without U.S. government authorization, the Company reserves the right not to apply for an export license for such applicants whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code requires authorization and may decline to proceed with the application process and any offer of employment on that basis.

At Reliable Robotics, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, ancestry, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability or medical conditions, national origin, military or veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other basis covered by applicable law. All employment and promotion is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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