Staff Digital Hardware Engineer – FPGA/SoC & PCB Lead

jobr.pro; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company pioneering autonomous systems, AI-enabled sensing, and secure networks for national security. This role focuses on high‑assurance hardware development, FPGA/SoC design, and PCB lifecycle ownership.

You will work with senior engineers to deliver reliable hardware for vehicle management, networking, and DSP platforms, requiring extensive experience and a TS clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• 7+ years of experience designing, testing and troubleshooting complex board designs in military, automotive or similar hardware.
• Experience with leading an Electrical Engineering team focused on Digital Design.
• Proficiency in an HDL language (VHDL, Verilog).
• Familiarity with interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB.
• Experience in design for signal integrity / power integrity.
• Knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and circuits.
• Competence with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, thermal chambers, current‑probes, and automation of tests.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Electrical engineering team member creating hardware solutions for vehicle management, DSP, and networking.
• Develop and improve workflows throughout the FPGA / HDL design cycle (Architecture, functional block definition, simulation, system testing, HDL library standardization).
• Independently reviewing high speed digital and compute based designs.
• Oversee the full PCB development cycle of host boards for FPGAs / SoCs / SoMs (Developing requirements, schematic capture, board layout, bring‑up, test, and integration).
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to create the strategy for delivering hardware and IP core solutions across Anduril.
• Create, maintain and communicate product development schedules with sufficient detail to ensure that all assigned personnel are aware of their tasks and deadlines.

Skills

Team leadership

HDL: VHDL/Verilog

FPGA/SoC/CPU

Ethernet/CAN/I2C/SPI/PCIe/USB

SI/PI

Analog & Digital

Test equipment

Altium

Top Secret clearance

Colonial?

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company pioneering autonomous systems, AI-enabled sensing, and secure networks for national security. This role focuses on high‑assurance hardware development, FPGA/SoC design, and PCB lifecycle ownership.

You will work with senior engineers to deliver reliable hardware for vehicle management, networking, and DSP platforms, requiring extensive experience and a TS clearance.